We currently have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Nurse to join our inpatients team at HMP Elmley in Kent. Within this post, you will provide a quality healthcare service and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. You will support junior colleagues, assist & support the Primary Care Leads (Band 7s) as directed to deliver a nurse-led integrated healthcare service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care for offenders.
Shift Pattern: 07:15-19:45 including weekends.
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 in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators, and National Service Frameworks.
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 programs, to ensure 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 patient-centred care planning tools, long-term condition registers, and consistent delivery throughout all the prisons within the service.
Job 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.
* Maintain systems for the collection of triage & allocation of referrals as appropriate and monitor and support 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.
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 Mental Health)
* 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.
* Experience of setting, monitoring, and evaluating standards of care.
Desirable
* Experience of working within secure & prison settings (desirable but not essential).
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.
* Good analytical and judgment skills.
Effort and Environment
Essential
* Ability to manage complex & challenging behaviour.
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
HMP Elmley
Church Road, Eastchurch, Sheerness
Kent
ME12 4DZ
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