Main area: Offender Healthcare
Grade Band: 5
Contract: Fixed term: 18 months
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 8am-4pm with alternative weekends)
Job ref: 277-6979777-EAST
Site: HMP East Sutton Park
Town: Sutton Valence, Maidstone
Salary: £31,970 - £38,483 pa inc
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
We currently have an exciting opportunity available for a Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our healthcare team at HMP East Sutton Park in Kent for an 18 month secondment/fixed term position.
The successful applicant will be required to provide a quality primary care service and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. You will support junior colleagues and assist & 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.
Responsibilities include:
* Designing and delivering healthcare for the unique needs of each patient.
* Being highly supportive of clinical and prison staff with training and support enabling the team to work smarter and as part of an effective Multi Professional Team.
Main duties of the job
* The post holder will 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.
* To deliver high-quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison. This will include acute & primary care, long-term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities.
* To demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality and outcome-driven practice on a day-to-day basis.
* To support the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.
* To participate in managerial and professional clinical supervision programme, training, and annual appraisal and to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.
* To ensure the implementation of effective and appropriate patient-centred care planning tools, long-term condition registers and consistent delivery throughout all the prisons within the service.
* The post holder will work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead, GPs, and other clinicians to meet and review service needs as required.
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
* To support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model.
* To manage a complex clinical caseload.
* To support the development, implement and maintain the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service.
* Ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way, in line with service needs.
* To be able to give intravenous injections, immunisations and syringe pumps and infusions as necessary for the role of coordinating complex prisoners.
* Maintain systems for the collection of triage & allocation of referrals as appropriate and monitoring and supporting the auditing of quality and effectiveness of service delivery.
* To maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout a patient care pathway whilst detained in prison.
* To maintain close working partnerships with all services that may be involved with the care and management of offenders (prison staff, Ministry of Justice, Trust & Directorate senior managers, CMHT staff, NHS Hospitals, Probation Services, CPS, Courts, GPs, community health services, Housing/Benefit services, social care, community multi-agency forums, etc.).
Governance
* Ensuring high standards of electronic record-keeping competencies and offender confidentiality in line with trust & prison policy and systems, through effective monitoring and auditing processes.
General
* To liaise with other senior Trust personnel to share expertise, promote ideas and to ensure the service is working collaboratively with the Trust's other Directorates as required.
* To work positively and effectively in a difficult and often hostile environment.
* Be aware of environmental hazards in the working area; ensure staff are aware of relevant health & safety policies deriving from the Health & Safety at Work Act.
* To work in accordance with Trust policies and guidelines.
* To be familiar with Prison Standards, Standing Orders, Circular instructions, Notices to Staff, Health and Safety and all other relevant material to function as an informed practitioner within a prison setting.
* Promote equality of opportunity and provide an environment in which the dignity of individuals is respected and free from workplace harassment and bullying.
Important Information
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 RGN/RMN
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, 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 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 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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