Senior Registered Mental Health Nurse - Inpatients unit
Full time: 37.50 hours per week - Shifts to cover 24/7 1.0 WTE
We're recruiting for Clinical Lead Nurse, Band 6 to work within HMP Wandsworth.
The post holder will act as clinical lead to the IPU in HMP Wandsworth and provide quality Physical and Mental healthcare interventions to prisoners.
Provide direct line supervision, leadership, and support to junior colleagues.
Assist & support senior staff to deliver nurse-led integrated Inpatient Unit services.
Develop specialist practice-based clinical models of care to HMP Wandsworth prison.
Provide a range of quality services and interventions.
Main duties of the job
1. To play a lead role in the ongoing development and delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model.
2. To manage a clinical caseload.
3. Ensure all clinics are delivered in a clinically effective, efficient & timely way, in line with service needs.
4. Deliver strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations, and agencies as directed.
5. Support systems for the collection, triage & management of all referrals.
6. Monitor and audit the quality and effectiveness of all aspects of service delivery.
7. Maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout an offender's care pathway whilst detained in prison and admitted to the IPU.
8. To liaise with others to share expertise, promote ideas and work collaboratively with key stakeholders, agencies, and organisations as required.
Expectations of Post Holder
1. Develop and maintain inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working with all relevant agencies and organisations.
2. Develop and maintain close working partnerships with HMPS, senior management teams and staff, probation services, CPS, police, and all other statutory and non-statutory agencies that are integral to offender care and offender management.
3. The post holder is expected to provide support, leadership, and supervision to junior staff.
4. Undertake other duties agreed in conjunction with senior managers.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London, we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.
Job responsibilities
1. The post holder will exercise a degree of personal and professional autonomy, make complex and critical judgments under the supervision of the Inpatients Unit Manager and have decision-making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role.
2. To have effective access to IPU staff rotas, taking into account efficient use of resources, staff capacity, and changing service needs.
3. Responsible for staff supervision and annual appraisal.
4. To support and undertake research, clinical audit, and evaluate the service as directed.
5. This will include acute care, long-term conditions management, and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health, and National Service Frameworks.
6. To demonstrate and provide robust clinical leadership to junior staff with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a proactive approach to ensure quality and outcome-driven practice on a day-to-day basis.
7. To participate in all monitoring systems to promote the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.
8. To lead in the professional clinical supervision programme, to ensure all junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training, and annual appraisal to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.
9. Lead in the identification of all aspects of specific service, training, and personal development needs.
10. To lead in the implementation of effective and appropriate patient-centred care planning tools / Care Programme Approach (CPA) and consistent delivery throughout all the prisons and forensic units within the service.
11. The post holder will participate in all service reviews as required.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
* Professional Qualification. (Registered Mental Health Nurse)
* Minimum of 18 months at band 5 level
Experience
* Minimum of 12-18 months experience at Band 5.
* Experience of working within secure & prison settings.
* Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare.
* Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations. Experience of setting, monitoring, and evaluating standards of care.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
* Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
* Ability to demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working.
* Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.
* Knowledge of current National Prison Health Quality & Performance Indicators.
* Excellent interpersonal skills.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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