Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast-paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.
We are currently looking for two compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurses to join our friendly team at HMP Swaleside.
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients' future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy, and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
As part of our Inpatient Team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (including pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, which encourages career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: Due to service budget restrictions, we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Responsibilities:
* To work under the direction of senior staff to deliver and constantly strive to improve the offender healthcare services within the inpatient unit.
* To provide mental health and physical health care based on the principles of timely, comprehensive assessment and evidence-based practice.
* To reduce or mitigate the effects of unhealthy or high-risk behaviours (ACCT).
* To promote effective links with health and related services in the community to ensure continuity of care as appropriate (Care Program Approach, CPA).
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 through our new provider collaboratives.
Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools, and people’s homes. 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 and 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. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values:
* We’re Kind
* We’re Fair
* We Listen
* We Care
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Clare Denny
Job title: Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer
Email address: claredenny@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07504877653
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