Main area: Offender Healthcare
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift Work)
Job ref: 277-7056650-ELM
Site: HMP Elmley, Town Eastchurch, Sheerness
Salary: £31,970 - £38,483 pa inc
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/03/2025 23:59
Job overview
We currently have an exciting opportunity available for a Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our Primary Care team at HMP Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. The successful applicant will be required to provide a quality primary care service and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. You will assist and support the Primary Care manager as directed to deliver a nurse-led integrated service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of patient care.
Main duties of the job
* Provide a quality primary care service and a range of specialist interventions for offenders.
* Support junior colleagues such as healthcare assistants.
* Assist and support the Primary Care manager and senior nurses as directed to deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care to Kent Prisons.
Working for our organisation
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. 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgments and have decision-making skills.
* Carry a radio and be competent to lead in medical emergency responses.
* Deliver high-quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, including acute and primary care, long-term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services, and health promotion activities.
* Demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice.
* Support the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and promote research as appropriate.
* Participate in managerial and professional clinical supervision programs, training, and annual appraisal.
* Implement effective and appropriate patient-centered care planning tools and ensure consistent delivery throughout all the prisons within the service.
* Work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead, GPs, and other clinicians to meet and review service needs.
* Be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff.
* Undertake training to maximize uptake of screening, health promotion, and prevention activity, including vaccinations.
* Ensure a named care coordinator is allocated for every patient with complex needs.
* Ensure comprehensive risk assessments and care plans are regularly reviewed.
* Ensure care coordination criteria and MDT meetings for patients with complex needs are tailored to the needs of the establishment.
* Undertake all training in evidence-based CBT approaches.
* Support patients to manage their health at every stage.
* Ensure health promotion is embedded into every aspect of the service.
Important Information
Sponsorship not available for this post.
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* Professional Qualification RGN
Experience
* Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
* Experience of setting, monitoring, and evaluating standards of care.
* Experience of working within secure environment or prison settings.
* Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare.
Skills and Abilities
* Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
* Ability to demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working.
* Ability to work effectively and autonomously.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020.
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