Practice Support Lead

Oxleas Nhs Foundation Trust

Shaftesbury

On-site

GBP 42,000 - 52,000

Full time

14 days+

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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 support to prison healthcare teams.

You will work with the Practice Development Nurse and other leads to develop staff, deliver training, conduct audits and support quality improvement.

Qualifications

Must hold current professional registration and a relevant Level 6 qualification.
Infection prevention and control qualification within your practice.
Professional Nurse Advocate qualification or willingness to complete the training.
Substantial experience as a senior practitioner at Band 6 or above.
Experience of clinical supervision, staff development, practice development and supporting junior colleagues.
Experience of emergency response, multidisciplinary working, infection prevention and control, clinical audit and report writing.
Full driving licence and access to transport due to travel between prison sites.
Willingness to undertake National Security Vetting for prison work.

Responsibilities

Identify learning and development needs for clinical staff across Dorset prisons.
Provide specialist infection prevention and control advice and support audits.
Lead education and training, simulation exercises and clinical supervision as required.
Collaborate with Health Protection Team and other partners on regional safety and governance.
Support safeguarding, continuous learning and Oxleas values.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Teaching

Organisational skills

Driving licence

Education

Degree-level qualification

Infection prevention and control qualification

Professional Nurse Advocate qualification

Job description

Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

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

Job responsibilities

You will work alongside healthcare teams to identify learning and development needs, support newly appointed staff and assess clinical competencies. You will create positive learning environments, support students on placement and help colleagues develop through supervision, wellbeing support and career conversations. The role will provide specialist infection prevention and control advice to staff across different disciplines, monitor compliance with relevant standards and support services to implement improvements. You will liaise with the local Health Protection Team during outbreaks, maintain effective communication with infection prevention and control champions and contribute to regional reporting and governance arrangements. You will participate in clinical audits, patient safety initiatives, service development and research activity where appropriate. The post holder must maintain professional registration and clinical competence, work in accordance with Trust and prison security procedures, and promote safeguarding, continuous learning and the Oxleas values of Were Kind, Were Fair, We Listen and We Care.

Applicants must hold current professional registration and a relevant Level 6 qualification, with substantial experience as a senior practitioner at Band 6 or above. You should have experience of supporting staff development, clinical supervision, emergency response, multidisciplinary working, practice development and infection prevention and control. A full driving licence and access to transport are required due to travel across the Dorset prison estate.

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.

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 sought from: 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

Qualifications

Essential

Relevant degree-level qualification & professional registration
Infection prevention and control qualification, or willingness to undertake this
Professional Nurse Advocate qualification, or willingness to complete the required training

Experience and knowledge

Essential

Substantial experience as a senior practitioner at Band 6 or above in a relevant clinical setting
Experience of clinical supervision, staff development, practice development and supporting junior colleagues
Experience of emergency response, multidisciplinary working, infection prevention and control, clinical audit and report writing

Desirable

Understanding of safeguarding and healthcare delivery within a secure or prison environment

Skills and personal requirements

Essential

Excellent communication, leadership, teaching and organisational skills
Full driving licence and access to transport to travel between prison sites

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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