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 compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Senior Nurses to join our friendly team at HMP Exeter to work night shifts only.
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 (including pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
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.
Nights only - 7pm-8am, 3 shifts per week.
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
Essential
* Professional Qualification (Registered General Nurse)
* Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential
* Minimum of two years' experience at Band 5
* Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare
* Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
* 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 lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.
* Knowledge of current National Prison Health Quality & Performance Indicators.
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
HMP Exeter
30 New North Road
Exeter
EX4 4EX #J-18808-Ljbffr