Bank Advanced Emergency Care Practitioner/Paramedic - HMP Kent Prisons

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider is looking for an Advanced Emergency Care Practitioner to deliver high-quality care in prisons. You will provide emergency care, oversee patient assessments, and work with a dedicated team. This role requires adaptability in a unique healthcare environment, serving a diverse population with complex needs. Join us to make a significant impact in the healthcare system within correctional facilities.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering high quality emergency care.
• Knowledge in health care needs for offenders.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality emergency care and minor injury treatment.
• Ensure comprehensive assessments and evaluations of care.
• Attend team meetings and engage with colleagues.

Skills

Emergency care

Minor injury treatment

Assessment and planning

Teamwork

Job description

This is a unique opportunity to be part of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and to work at some of the largest prisons in the UK. You will assist us to provide excellent primary care and emergency response within the prison environment. Offenders are a challenging population group to work with and they often have complex healthcare needs. Offenders often have chaotic lives in the community and a history of poor engagement with community healthcare services. With high rates of substance misuse and mental health problems, this is a real chance to make a difference.

As part of the role you will be required to work at least two days in a 6‑week period to have supervision, talks with colleagues, attend team meetings etc. 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 planning an active part in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the patient's care. Please note: This is an opportunity to join our Bank and work on an "as and when required" basis. The availability of Bank work cannot be guaranteed. The duration of each Bank booking varies.

Main duties of the job: We have 7 prisons in Kent – HMP Elmley, HMP Swaleside and HMP Standford Hill are all located on the Isle of Sheppey. HMP Rochester, HMP Cookham Wood, HMP Maidstone and HMP East Sutton Park are in West Kent. 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.

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