Registered Nurse (Medications Management)

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; West of England; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Registered Nurse to join our medications management within the prison healthcare service. The role sits in our Pharmacy team and focuses on safe, patient‑centred administration and review of medicines for offenders.

This is a nurse‑led, integrated primary care pathway, demanding clinical excellence, autonomy and strong teamwork. We welcome both newly qualified nurses on a preceptorship and experienced Band 5 nurses seeking a career in offender

Qualifications

• Professional qualification as a Registered General Nurse.
• Experience with prison/offender healthcare is desirable.
• Ability to work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality primary care and medications management for offenders.
• Deliver evidence-based nursing care within an integrated healthcare service.
• Support security and custodial requirements in a prison setting.

Skills

Clinical nursing

Autonomy

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Evidence‑based practice

Education

Registered General Nurse

Job description

Registered Nurse (Medications Management)

This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Nurse 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.

This role sits within our Pharmacy team and Medications Management is a core element of this role.

We strongly encourage applications from both newly qualified registered nurses (who will initially be offered a preceptorship position) and experienced Band 5 nurses looking for a career in offender healthcare, with a structured progression pathway to aid your development.

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 registered nurse you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. At HMP Ashfield, we deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice-based clinical model of care. This role has a core focus on Medications Management and you will be responsible for working on meds hatches on a daily basis.

You will also be delivering high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, demonstrating robust expert clinical skills and providing evidence-based nursing practice to those in prison.

Our registered nurses carry out a range of duties including:

• Reception screening
• Emergency response
• Long term conditions management
• Medications/Medications Management
• Planned care (e.g. running clinics)
• Enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services
• Health promotion activities

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

• Provide high-quality primary care andspecialist interventions for offenders in a nurse-led, integrated service.
• Deliver robust clinical care, demonstrating expert skills and evidence- based nursing practice.
• Reception screening
• Emergency response
• Long-term conditions management
• Planned care (e.g., running clinics, administering medication)
• Enhanced assessment and diagnostic services
• Health promotion activities
• Medication Management
• Act as first responder to medical emergencies until additional help arrives.
• Navigate the prison environment and security elements.

Role Specific Requirements:

• The role demands clinical expertise, autonomy, and a proactive approach to care.
• There is a strong emphasis on integrated, multidisciplinary teamwork and evidence-based practice.
• The position involves both direct patient care and broader responsibilities in service development, health promotion, and collaboration.

Custodial Responsibilities

• Assume personal responsibility for the security of issued keys.
• Carry and use correctly a prison issued radio and security keys.
• Understand and comply with prison orders, procedures, and instructions in your area of work.
• Comply with all security requirements.
• Respond to any situation or circumstance that might indicate a threat to the security of the establishment or to the safety of an individual, completing Incident, Security, Injury, or other reports as appropriate.
• Report breaches of order and discipline including reporting and recording untoward incidents according to local protocol.
• Contribute to effective risk assessment and management procedures

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 photographicID

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

Education/ Qualifications

• Professional Qualification (Registered General Nurse)

Experience

• Experience of setting, monitoring, and evaluating standards of care.
• Working knowledge or a clear interest in prison/offender healthcare
• Experience of working within secure & prison settings
• Experience as a registered nurse

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working.

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.