Nursing Associate

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Exeter; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Registered Nursing Associate to deliver compassionate, person-centred care within a prison environment. The role involves providing holistic support to patients, engaging in health promotion activities, and working independently under the guidance of a registered nurse. Candidates must be registered on the NMC register and have experience in healthcare. This position offers a chance to make a significant impact on the wellbeing of individuals in a secure setting.

Qualifications

• Experience of providing person-centred, holistic care in a healthcare environment.
• Experience of undertaking clinical interventions and observations (i.e. ECGs, blood glucose monitoring, venepuncture).
• Experience of health promotion activities.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality, personalised, safe, compassionate care.
• Support the delivery of national screening programmes.
• Provide care physical care to patients in accordance with their care plan.

Skills

Person-centred care

Holistic care

Clinical interventions

Health promotion

Experience in a prison setting

Education

Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register

Job description

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?

This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Nursing Associate to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.

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 patient's 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.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

As a Nursing Associate you will be responsible for contributing towards the health and wellbeing of patients within the prison setting. You will deliver high quality, personalised, safe, compassionate care in the best interest of people.

Using your knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and behaviours gained within fields of nursing, you will be responsible for providing holistic care and support for people of all ages within the setting.

You will be working independently, under the leadership of a registered nurse, working within the sphere of nursing. You will be required to recognise and work within the limits of your competence, and work to the nationally recognised NMC code of conduct.

• To work as directed by a registered nurse.
• To provide care physical care to patients in accordance with their care plan
• To support the delivery of national screening programmes
• To support and deliver clinics as instructed within the establishments clinic timetable

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 Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

Promoting Health and Preventing ill Health

• Supporting people to improve and maintain their mental, physical, behavioural health and wellbeing.
• Active involvement in the prevention of and protection against disease and ill health.
• Engage in public health, community development, and in the reduction of health inequalities.
• Implementing the principles of recovery: encouraging and supporting patients/service users to engage with healthy lifestyles, facilitating psychosocial activities and other activities of their interest. Where appropriate contributing to psychological interventions under the guidance of a registered professional.
• Advocating for patients/service users needs and rights within Trust policy.
• Encouraging and empowering individuals to have an optimum level of responsibility for their individual programme of care.

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.

Address History:

• 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.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be soughtfrom:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

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

Education & Qualifications

• Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register (or due to qualify soon)

Experience

• Experience of providing person‑centred, holistic care in a healthcare environment
• Experience of undertaking clinical interventions and observations (i.e. ECGs, blood glucose monitoring, venepuncture, non‑complex wound care)
• Experience of health promotion activities
• Experience in a prison/secure setting

Skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.