Bank Registered & Senior Nurses - HMP Exeter

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Exeter; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking dedicated Registered and Senior Nurses to join their team at HMP Exeter. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact in offender healthcare, delivering integrated services that promote health and well-being among prisoners. With flexible working hours, you will provide essential clinical care, manage complex cases, and collaborate with a team of healthcare professionals. If you are passionate about making a difference and have the necessary qualifications, this is the perfect opportunity to advance your career in a challenging yet rewarding environment.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with NMC qualification and experience in offender healthcare.
• Minimum two years’ experience at Band 5 required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service.
• Manage a complex clinical caseload and ensure timely service delivery.

Skills

Good written and verbal communication skills

Ability to manage complex & challenging behaviour

Education

Registered NMC Qualification (B5/B6)

Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience (B6)

Job description

Bank Registered & Senior Nurses - HMP Exeter

Band 5 - 6

Main area: Offender Healthcare Grade Band 5 - 6

Contract: Bank

Hours: Flexible working - 37.5 hours per week (Bank / Flexible)

Job ref: 277-BankNurse5/6-HMPExe-A

Site: HMP Exeter

Town: Exeter

Salary: £32,324 - £39,405 Per annum pro-rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 06/01/2025 23:59

Job overview

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.

Oxleas NHS Trust was awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and currently has a portfolio of 19 prisons across the South of England. We are currently looking to expand our pool of bank workers by recruiting Registered Nurses & Senior Nurses to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis.

Our healthcare team has 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.

Please note: We are looking for registered nurses at band 5 or 6, banding to be discussed at interview and is based on experience.

In order to work as a bank-only worker, you will need to have completed preceptorship training or obtained 6 months post-qualification experience.

Main duties of the job

As a Registered Nurse, you will be required to exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgements. You will be delivering high-quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, which will include acute & primary care, long-term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities.

As a Senior Nurse, you will provide high-quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. Within the prison, we deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice-based clinical model of care. Our senior nurses deliver primary care, emergency response and first night in custody/new registration services.

Working for our organisation

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 purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Registered Nurse Duties:

• To support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model.
• To manage a complex clinical caseload.
• Ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way, in line with service needs.

Senior Nurse Duties:

• To deliver high-quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison.
• To demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice.
• To work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead, GPs, and other clinicians to meet and review service needs as required.
• To promote equality of opportunity and provide an environment in which the dignity of individuals is respected and free from workplace harassment and bullying.

(Full JD's can be downloaded in the supporting documents section)

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

Qualifications

• Registered NMC Qualification (B5/B6)
• Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience (B6)

Experience

• Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care (B5/B6)
• Minimum of two years’ experience at Band 5 (B6)
• Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare (B6)

Skills

• Good written and verbal communication skills (B5/B6)
• Ability to manage complex & challenging behaviour (B6)

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.