Senior Nurse

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Newton Abbot; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Senior Registered Nurse to join our prison healthcare team at Channing's Wood. You will lead high quality clinical care, manage complex caseloads and mentor junior staff in a demanding environment.

Develop evidence-based practice, participate in professional supervision and ensure patient‑centred care across the Integrated Healthcare Service within the prison setting.

Qualifications

• Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.
• Experience of multi-professional collaboration including partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
• Substantial Band 5 experience and ability to work at band 6 level.
• Prison/Secure setting experience.

Responsibilities

• Plan and reach complex judgments with robust decision-making.
• Deliver high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison.
• Demonstrate robust expert clinical skills with evidence-based nursing practice.
• Support development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field.
• Participate in managerial and clinical supervision programmes for junior staff.
• Ensure effective patient-centred care planning tools and long-term condition registers.
• Work with the Clinical Lead, GPs and other clinicians to meet service needs.
• Deputise for the Team manager when required.
• Work positively in a difficult environment and adhere to health and safety policies.
• Familiarise with Prison Standards and Trust policies to function as an informed practitioner.
• Promote equality and a respectful, harassment-free workplace.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Clinical governance

Collaboration

Prison experience

Education

RGN

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 Senior 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 position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.

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 senior registered nurse you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. At HMP Channing's Wood, we deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.

You will 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 senior registered nurses carry out a range of duties including; reception screening, emergency response, long term conditions management, planned care (e.g. running clinics), enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities.

As a senior member of our team, you will hold a complex caseload and support more junior colleagues with any help or advice they may require. You will also be responsible for the day-to-day co-ordination of the healthcare team and provide clinical supervision to junior team members including band 5 nurses, healthcare assistants and students.

Working for our organisation

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

• The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgments and have decision making skills.
• To deliver high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service forthe prison. This will include acute & primary care, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators and National Service Frameworks.
• To demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality and outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis.
• To support the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.
• To participate in managerial and professional clinical supervision programme, to ensure junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal and to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.
• To ensure the implementation of effective and appropriate patient centred care planning tools, long-term condition registers and consistent delivery throughout all the prisons within the service.
• The post holder will work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead, GPs, and other clinicians to meet and review service needs as required.
• To deputise for the Team manager as required
• To work positively and effectively in a difficult and often hostile environment.
• Be aware of environmental hazards in the working area; ensure staffs are aware of relevant health & safety policies deriving from the Health & Safety at Work Act.
• To work in accordance with Trust policies and guidelines
• To be familiar with Prison Standards, Standing Orders, Circular instructions, Notices to Staff, Health and Safety and all other relevant material to function as an informed practitioner within a prison setting.
• Promote equality of opportunity and provide an environment in which the dignity of individuals is respected and free from workplace harassment and bullying.

Person specification

Qualifications

• RGN

Experience

• Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
• Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations
• Substantial Band 5 experience and can clearly demonstrate competencies/ability to work at band 6 level
• Prison/Secure setting experience

Skills, Abilities & Knowledge

• Knowledge/interest of current National Prison Health Quality & Performance Indicators
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.

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.

If you have declared you are part of the armed forces community, you may be asked to provide evidence during the recruitment process. If you misrepresent this information, your offer may be withdrawn. For Armed Forces specific support, see our webpage: https://oxleas.nhs.uk/armed-forces-community/

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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We monitor applications for any behaviour that could create an unfair advantage, and we check all references carefully. You are likely to be tested on your experience at interview, so be honest and make sure all the information in your application is correct.Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process.

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.