Senior Nurse

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; West of England; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Registered Nurse to join our team delivering nurse-led primary care within the prison health service at HMP Bristol. You will provide clinical care, lead a multidisciplinary team and contribute to planned and preventive health activities.

You will manage complex caseloads, supervise junior staff, and coordinate the healthcare team to ensure robust and evidence-based practice. A dynamic, rewarding and challenging environment awaits.

Qualifications

• Senior RN with responsibility for high-quality primary care in a nurse-led, integrated prison health service.
• Ability to lead and supervise junior staff including band 5 clinicians and healthcare assistants.
• Experience in emergency response, clinic administration and health promotion in a secure setting.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality primary care services within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison.
• Provide evidence-based clinical practice and supervision to junior team members.
• Manage a complex caseload and coordinate the healthcare team on a day-to-day basis.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Emergency response

Long-term conditions management

Health promotion

Education

NMC registered nurse

Tools

Nursing protocols

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.

As a senior registered nurse, you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for our patients. At HMP Bristol, 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 clinical practice to those in prison.

Our senior registered staff 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 healthcare professionals, healthcare assistants and students.

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

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ailish Shallcross Job title: Primary Care Clinical Lead Email address: [e-mail]