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 breakinto offender healthcare and develop your career.
We are currently looking for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Senior Nurses to join our friendly team at HMP Exeter.
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 primary care team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc 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.
Applicants must have experience within either an acute, community, substance misuse or prison environment.
Main duties of the job
As a senior nurse, you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. At HMP Exeter, we deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.
You will maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout a patient care pathway whilst detained in prison. You will be required to ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way and implement strategies designed to promote & improve health and prevent disease whilst in prison.
As a senior member of staff, you'll be responsible for the day-to-day coordination of the Healthcare Team, supporting junior colleagues and ensuring systems are in place for clinical supervision to junior team members.
Job responsibilities
Operational
* To support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model.
* To manage a complex clinical caseload.
* To support the development, implementation and maintenance of 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.
* 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 be able to give intravenous injections, immunisations and syringe pumps and infusions as necessary for the role of coordinating complex prisoners.
Management
* Implement strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations and agencies as required.
* Maximising resources to target need, including the supervision of staff.
* Delegate appropriate responsibility and authority to team members, whilst retaining overall responsibility and accountability on a shift-to-shift basis.
* 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 implement appropriate & effective and accredited care planning tools that are subject to the process in accordance with agreed Trust Policies.
* To implement effective systems and interfaces with community and acute health services ensuring continuity of care on release or discharge. To actively promote and demonstrate working across professional and organisational boundaries.
* To maintain close working partnerships with all services that may be involved with the care and management of offenders.
Human Resources
* Responsible for day-to-day coordination of the Integrated Healthcare Team.
* To ensure systems are in place for clinical supervision to junior team members including annual appraisal and identification of specific service, training, and personal development needs.
Governance
* Ensure junior staff compliance with all Prison and Trust clinical policies and procedures as appropriate.
* Ensure appropriately skilled & qualified staff comply with the administration and management of medications according to their responsibilities in accordance with all relevant policies, guidance, and procedures.
* 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.
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 General Nurse)
* NMC Registration
Experience
* Minimum of two years' experience at Band 5.
* Acute, Community, Substance Misuse or Prison 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.
* Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
* Knowledge of current National Prison Health Quality & Performance Indicators.
* Leadership skills/experience of managing teams, students etc.
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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