Bank Senior Nurse - RGN HMP Rochester

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Sevenoaks; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking compassionate Senior Nurses to join their teams in Kent prisons. The role requires providing high-quality primary care services and specialist interventions for offenders. Candidates must have preceptorship training or at least 6 months of post-qualification experience. Responsibilities include managing patient care pathways, administering medication, and responding to medical emergencies. This position offers the opportunity to promote health and well-being within a challenging yet rewarding environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing primary care services.
• Ability to maintain continuity of treatment.
• Proficient in medication administration.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality primary care services to offenders.
• Deliver clinics and consultations in a clinically effective way.
• Respond to medical emergencies as a first responder.

Skills

Compassionate care

Knowledge of mental health

Proactive clinical judgement

Education

Preceptorship training or 6 months post-qualification experience

Job description

As part of the Kent Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Senior Nurses to join our friendly teams working across our Kent prisons on Bank. 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 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. 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, attended team meetings etc. 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 We have seven 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 located in West Kent. We are looking for bank staff who will be able to pick up regular shifts at HMP Rochester. As a senior nurse you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. We deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice-based clinical model of care. You will maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout the patient care pathway whilst detained in prison including medication administration. 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. Senior nurses will be expected respond to medical emergencies acting as first responder and being able to use proactive clinical judgement.

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