Practice Support Lead

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Shaftesbury; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Practice Support Lead to join the South West Prisons regional practice support team. Based across HMP Guys Marsh, HMP Portland and HMP The Verne, this Band 7 role provides specialist clinical practice, workforce development and infection prevention and control support to prison healthcare teams.

The post holder will travel between sites, support induction and competency development, and work with the Prison healthcare teams to promote high

Qualifications

• Induction, development and competency assessment of clinical staff across Dorset prisons.
• Deliver specialist clinical advice and education/training to prison healthcare teams.
• Lead emergency simulation exercises and restorative clinical supervision as a Professional Nurse Advocate.
• Promote infection prevention and control practice, conduct audits and develop action plans.
• Coordinate the FFP3 resilience programme across South West prison services.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist clinical practice and infection control support to prison healthcare teams.
• Develop staff via induction, education and competency assessments.
• Lead simulation and clinical supervision activities for staff.
• Support patient safety investigations and quality improvement projects.
• Collaborate with universities and external partners across multiple sites.

Skills

Infection control

Education & training

Quality improvement

Clinical practice development

Leadership

Education

NMC registered nurse

Job description

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Practice Support Lead to join the Oxleas South West Prisons regional practice support team. Based across HMP Guys Marsh, HMP Portland and HMP The Verne, this Band 7 role will provide specialist clinical practice, workforce development and infection prevention and control support to prison healthcare teams.

Working closely with the Practice Development Nurse, Senior Infection Prevention and Control Nurse and local Health Protection Team, you will help staff maintain high standards of safe, effective and person-centred care. This is an excellent opportunity for a senior registered practitioner with a passion for developing others, improving clinical practice and supporting quality improvement within a secure healthcare environment.

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

The post holder will support the induction, development and competency assessment of clinical staff across the Dorset prisons. You will provide specialist clinical advice, deliver education and training, support emergency simulation exercises and offer restorative clinical supervision as a Professional Nurse Advocate.

You will also support patient safety investigations, quality improvement projects and action plans arising from incidents and audits. A key part of the role will be promoting effective infection prevention and control practice, completing audits, advising teams during outbreaks and coordinating the FFP3 resilience programme across South West prison services.

The role requires regular travel between sites and the ability to work independently, manage competing priorities and build effective relationships with healthcare teams, prison colleagues, universities and external partners.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community healthcare 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

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Annie Dale Job title: Head of Nursing Email address: [e-mail]