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.
As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Substance Misuse Lead to join our friendly team at HMP Portland.
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 substance misuse team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (including pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service that encourages career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
Main duties of the job
* The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy, make complex and critical judgments, and have decision-making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role.
* To participate in the comprehensive assessments of service users referred to the team, including specialist assessments of service users requiring non-medical prescribing, ensuring that a medical history and medication history is undertaken and implemented where required.
* To prescribe and change medications within area of speciality and competence.
* To strategically develop, deliver, clinically audit and evaluate the substance misuse services for the prison. This will include development and implementation of appropriate referral/care pathways for service users identified as having a dual diagnosis.
* To demonstrate and provide robust expert 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.
* To support the development of monitoring systems, to promote the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.
* To participate and lead as directed in the managerial and professional clinical supervision programme, to ensure all junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal, and to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.
* To ensure the implementation of effective and appropriate service user-centred care plans and consistent delivery throughout the prison.
* To promote engagement with the Mayors Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) dual diagnosis programme with service users.
* The post holder will work collaboratively with the Operational Manager, Clinical Leads, GPs and other clinicians to meet and review service needs as required. To actively promote service user healthcare through the provision of information, formal presentations, general networking and liaison with prison, statutory and other non-statutory agencies.
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.
You will need to provide:
* Proof of right to work documentation
* Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
* Proof of address documentation
* Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
* 5 years address history will be needed.
* Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
* Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
* Previous experience at a Senior Nurse / Band 6 level within offender care
* Experience of working within prison settings
Qualifications
Essential
* Professional Qualification. (Registered Nurse/Mental Health Nurse)
* Post registration qualification in Nurse Independent / Supplementary Prescriber recorded by NMC.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
* Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, complex and contentious presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style, for a variety of audiences.
* Ability to manage change and develop innovative ways of working.
* Ability to work effectively and autonomously.
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
HMP Portland
104 Grove Rd, Grove
Portland
DT5 1DL
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