Senior Nurse - Registered General Nurse

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Rochester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Nurse to provide high-quality primary care services in a secure environment. This role involves delivering emergency response, managing case services, and ensuring continuity of care for offenders. You will lead a skilled multidisciplinary team, supporting junior staff while implementing effective health promotion strategies. If you are passionate about making a difference in healthcare and possess robust clinical skills, this opportunity offers a chance to impact lives positively within the NHS framework.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with experience in primary and emergency care.
• Expertise in case management and health promotion in secure environments.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service.
• Coordinate the Healthcare Team and ensure effective patient-centered care.

Skills

Clinical Care

Case Management

Emergency Response

Health Promotion

Evidence-Based Practice

Education

Registered Nurse Qualification

Job description

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

Our senior nurses deliver primary care, emergency response, and first night in custody/new registration services.

You will maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment throughout a patient care pathway while detained in prison.

You will be required to ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely manner and implement strategies to promote and improve health and prevent disease in prison.

As a senior staff member, you will be responsible for the day-to-day coordination of the Healthcare Team, supporting junior colleagues, and ensuring systems are in place for clinical supervision.

Important Sponsorship Information: Due to service budget restrictions, we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy, capable of planning and reaching complex and critical judgments, with decision-making skills.

You will 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 services, and health promotion activities, aligned with NHS plans and frameworks.

You will demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with an understanding of evidence-based nursing practice, proactively ensuring quality and outcome-driven practice daily.

You will support evidence-based practice development and promote research as appropriate.

You will participate in managerial and professional supervision programs, ensuring junior staff receive supervision, training, and annual appraisals, integrating this into team practice.

You will implement effective patient-centered care planning tools, long-term condition registers, and ensure consistent delivery across all prisons within the service.

The post will involve working within skilled multidisciplinary teams, including strategic partners, managing a single referral pathway.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services in community and secure environments, including community health, mental health care, and learning disabilities. Our teams serve all ages and collaborate closely with NHS, local councils, and voluntary sectors across over 125 sites in southern England, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, and secure hospitals.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care, guided by our values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

For further details or informal visits, contact:

• Name: Clare Denny
• Job title: Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer
• Email: [e-mail]
• Telephone: [phone]

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Health Care Provider

Industries

• Hospitals and Health Care