Advanced Emergency Care Practitioner (AECP)/Paramedic

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Eastchurch; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a Senior Registered Nurse or Paramedic to join its prison healthcare team. You will deliver advanced emergency care, perform holistic assessments, and develop care plans within an integrated NHS model designed to improve patient wellbeing.

The role emphasizes high standards of care in a challenging environment, with a focus on person-centred plans and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• NMC registered nurse or paramedic with clinical experience in emergency care.
• Ability to work in a prison healthcare setting and deliver high-quality care.
• Strong assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality emergency and minor injury care in a prison setting.
• Carry out comprehensive clinical and risk assessments for patients.
• Lead person-centred care with individualized care plans and obtain feedback.
• Maintain thorough documentation following trust standards.

Skills

NMC Registered Nurse

Paramedic

Clinical assessment

Patient care

Job description

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?

This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Registered Nurse or Paramedic to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.

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 patient’s 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.

This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

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As an Advanced Emergency Care Practitioner (AECP) / Paramedic you will deliver high quality care, ensuring standards are consistently high. You will do this by being competent and having the knowledge to deliver comprehensive assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.

You will provide high quality emergency care and minor injury treatment to patients with both primary care and acute care needs in a prison setting by playing an active part in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the patients care.

You will be responsible for carrying out full and thorough clinical and risk assessment for the people in your care, seeing them holistically, being sensitive to their needs and escalating that risk to senior staff where necessary.

We will expect you to lead person centred care with plans that people are encouraged to be involved with and which you seek feedback on to make sure they are meeting their needs. You will also develop and implement individualised care plans that will deliver high quality care that is evaluated and continually improved.

You will be responsible for carrying out full and thorough physical health assessments and regular monitoring of the people in your care, ensuring that their fundamental care needs are assessed and attended to including nutrition, hydration, comfort and hygiene and producing excellent quality documentation which follows the trust record keeping standards

Oxleas – About Us

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 and through our new provider collaboratives. 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.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

We’re Kind

We’re Fair

We Listen

We Care

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Clare Denny Job title: Recruitment and Retention Resourcing Officer Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07504877653