Senior Nurse | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Denbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK seeks a Senior Registered Nurse to join their dedicated team, delivering exceptional care in a challenging environment. Candidates should possess a registered nurse qualification, with responsibilities including managing clinical care in a prison setting and supporting junior colleagues. This impactful role is ideal for those passionate about healthcare and committed to patient-centered practice within a multidisciplinary team.

Benefits

Supportive working environment

Diverse healthcare team

Opportunity for professional development

Qualifications

• Must be a registered nurse with clinical proficiency.
• Experience working in a healthcare setting, preferably with offenders.
• Ability to provide evidence-based nursing practice.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality clinical care in a prison setting.
• Manage a complex caseload and provide support to junior staff.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

High quality clinical care

Expert clinical skills

Emergency response

Health promotion

Team coordination

Education

Registered Nurse Qualification

Job description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 the 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.
• You will work with the Clinical Lead, GPs, and other clinicians to meet and review service needs as required and deputise for the Team Manager as required. You will work positively and effectively in challenging environments and ensure adherence to health and safety policies and prison standards.
• 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.

Values and Professional Practice

• Our new values:
• We\'re Kind
• We\'re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Standards and Governance

• 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 for the prison, including acute & primary care, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities, 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 proactive 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 programmes, ensuring junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal as 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 prisons within the service.
• Discharge responsibilities include deputising for the Team Manager as required and maintaining high standards of patient safety and care.
• Discipline and working environment: work in a difficult and often hostile environment, and be aware of environmental hazards with adherence to Trust policies and guidelines.
• Familiarity with Prison Standards, Standing Orders, Circular instructions, Notices to Staff, and all relevant material to function effectively in a prison setting.

Important Information

• 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 pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team. You will need to provide: Proof of right to work documentation; Proof of ID (including one photographic ID); Proof of address documentation; Non-UK passport holders must have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home Office Share code.
• 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?
• Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate in English from where they resided previously. Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for 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.
• Disability Confident: A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. Details may vary and are subject to recruitment situations.
• 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 and operate in the South of England, including London.