Bank Subs Misuse Nurse BD6 Kent Prisons

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Borough of Swale; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust seeks a dedicated Substance Misuse Service Bank Nurse to work flexibly across various prison locations. This role involves providing specialized care to prisoners with substance misuse issues, ensuring safety and developing recovery plans. Candidates should have substantial experience in substance misuse services and be prepared for challenging work environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years’ experience at Band 5 required.
• Experience in working within substance misuse services.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical care and develop recovery plans for prisoners with substance misuse issues.
• Conduct assessments and risk management for new arrivals with identified needs.
• Supervise and mentor junior staff.

Skills

Communication

Knowledge of substance misuse assessment

Ability to manage complex & challenging behaviour

Education

Post Graduate Registration Training in Substance Misuse

Job description

Thank you for taking an interest in our Substance Misuse Service Bank Nurse position . We hope that you find this overview useful and look forward to receiving your application.

Our healthcare departments operate across seven prisons each of which require a bespoke service responding to the prisoner and prison needs:

Prison

Location

Category

Population

Isle of Sheppey

1,200 (male)

24/7

1,200 (male)

HMP Standford Hill

500 (male)

Standard

‘C’

650 (male)

24/7

HMP Maidstone

Maidstone

‘C’

500 (male)

24/7

HMP E Sutton Park

100 (female)

Standard

The seven prisons are located across three estates, Isle of Sheppey, Rochester and Maidstone, with the Isle of Sheppey prisons being with a few minutes’ walk from each other and East Sutton Park approximately 7 miles from Maidstone.

Please note this is an opportunity to join the Trust Bank and work on an as and when required basis

Main duties of the job

We are looking for dedicated Substance Misuse Service Nurses to cover bank shifts providing specialised assessment and clinical care to prisoners with identified substance misuse / dependency and related physical health issues in prison. Working closely with wider healthcare and prison departments to manage immediate risks and develop person centred collaboratively agreed recovery plan objectives.

We are looking for nurses with experience of substance misuse and who can pick night shifts and can do any days not just weekends.

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 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 Listen
• We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Task and Responsibilities

To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level; to include

· Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidence-based interventions

· Care Planning and risk assessing

· One-to-one and group-work facilitation

· managing a mixed and challenging caseload

· providing appropriate, pragmatic harm minimisation advice to patients

· providing drug, alcohol and holistic health education to patients and colleagues

Leadership

• Provide supervision to junior staff and to receive supervision as directed (line management and clinical).
• To develop and take on a specialist lead role within the Integrated Substance Misuse Service as appropriate and provide peer support and training in this area.
• To contribute towards support, advice, consultation, and training for other prison departments.
• Provide supervision, mentorship & leadership for junior staff.

Clinical

• To complete comprehensive clinical assessment, developing immediate risk management and safety planning and instigate recovery planning for all prisoners arriving in HMP Bristol who have an identified substance misuse need/dependency issue.
• Through assessment, identify and escalate safeguarding concerns relating to patients and their families at the point of arrival into HMPPS.
• Assist in the clinical oversight of new arrivals over the first five days in prison.
• Correctly identify indicators of withdrawal or sedation and request appropriate clinical interventions to support patients including Opiate Replacement Therapy, alcohol detoxification and benzodiazepine detoxification.
• Provide relevant harm minimisation and health education advice for patients with alcohol and substance use issues, including education in the administration of Naloxone.
• Provide a range of evidenced-based specialised clinical care in the treatment of alcohol and substance dependency, and signposting for co-morbid conditions associated with and compounding to, patients’ substance and/or alcohol use.
• Ensure that patients’ needs are addressed effectively and in a timely manner, ensuring equivalence of care or better that one would expect from accessing services in the community.
• Participate in and co-ordinate joint and collaborative care planning for patients with additional complexities, including developing appropriate signposting to specialised services and release planning.
• To perform robust assessment, screening, and interventions to offenders with a learning disability
• To participate in resource centre services as directed, delivering specialist drug, alcohol and holistic healthcare activities under the direction of the clinical lead.
• To work in a psychologically minded way with prisoners in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.
• Please see JD&PS

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

• • Post Graduate Registration Training in Substance Misuse/Dual Diagnosis Psychological therapies RCGP Part 1

Experience

• • Minimum of two years’ experience at Band 5.
• • Post qualification Experience in working within substance misuse services
• • Experience of working within secure & prison settings (desirable but not essential)

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

• • Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
• • Knowledge of substance misuse assessment, identification and management of withdrawal symptoms.
• • Ability to work effectively and autonomously
• Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care

Effort and Environment

• • Ability to manage complex & challenging behaviour

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.

Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process. We also discourage overuse of AI during the application process because this can negatively impact the quality of your application and may hinder your chances of being shortlisted. Thank you.

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.

Name Clare Denny Job title Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07504877653