Bank Registered & Senior Nurses - HMP Guys Marsh

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Guy's Marsh; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in offender healthcare is seeking dedicated Registered and Senior Nurses to join their dynamic team at HMP Guys Marsh. This role offers the chance to make a significant impact on the health and well-being of individuals within the prison system. With flexible working hours and the opportunity to work in a challenging yet rewarding environment, you will provide essential clinical care and support to offenders. Your expertise will help promote health, manage long-term conditions, and ensure effective care pathways. If you're ready to take on this fulfilling role and contribute to positive change, this is the opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Registered nurses must have completed preceptorship training or have 6 months post-qualification experience.
• Experience in multi-professional collaboration and current issues in prison healthcare is essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison.
• Manage a complex clinical caseload and support the development of healthcare standards.

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 Guys Marsh

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-HMPGM-A

Site: HMP Guys Marsh

Town: Shaftesbury

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

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 13/02/2025 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 well-being 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 judgments. 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. In order to do the above, you will be required 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 & outcome-driven practice on a day-to-day basis.

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. 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 and improve health and prevent disease whilst in prison.

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 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, 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 Listen
• We Care

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.
• To support the development, implementation, and maintenance of 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.

Senior Nurse Duties:

• 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 and be 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-centered care planning tools, long-term condition registers, and consistent delivery throughout all the prisons within the service.
• The post holder will work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead, GPs, and other clinicians to meet and review service needs as required.
• To deputise for the Team manager as required.
• To work positively and effectively in a difficult and often hostile environment.
• Be aware of environmental hazards in the working area; ensure staff are aware of relevant health & safety policies deriving from the Health & Safety at Work Act.
• To work in accordance with Trust policies and guidelines.
• To be familiar with Prison Standards, Standing Orders, Circular instructions, Notices to Staff, Health and Safety, and all other relevant material to function as an informed practitioner within a prison setting.
• 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.

You will need to provide:

• Proof of right to work documentation
• Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
• Proof of address documentation
• Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
• 5 years address history will be needed.
• Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
• Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website ( http://www.fco.gov.uk/en ).

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)
• Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations (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 - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

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. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.

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.

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