Staff Nurse

NHS; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An opportunity for a Band 5 Staff Nurse to join the Primary Care team at HMP Maidstone. The role includes delivering quality healthcare and clinical care services to offenders in a secure environment, requiring strong clinical skills and the ability to manage complex situations. Candidates must have a Professional Qualification RGN and be prepared for a unique work environment with specific vetting requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience of working within secure environments or prison settings.
• Experience of multi-professional collaboration.
• Understanding of prison/offender healthcare issues.

Responsibilities

• Provide a quality primary care service and specialized interventions for offenders.
• Assist in managing complex clinical situations, leading in emergencies.
• Support junior colleagues and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Communication

Decision Making

Autonomy

Clinical Skills

Education

Professional Qualification RGN

Job description

We currently have an exciting opportunity available for a Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our Primary Care team at HMP Maidstone.

The successful applicant will be required to provide a quality primary care service and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. You will assist & support the primary care manager as directed to deliver a nurse-led integrated service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of patient care.

***Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.***

Main duties of the job

• To provide a quality primary care service and a range of specialist interventions for offenders.
• To support junior colleagues such as healthcare assistants.
• Assist & support the Primary care manager and senior nurses as directed to deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care to Kent Prisons.

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:

Job 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.
• The post holder will need to carry a radio and be competent to lead in medical emergency responses.
• To deliver high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the 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, 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
• The post holder will be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway.
• The post holder will be required to undertake training to maximise uptake of screening, health promotion and prevention activity, including vaccinations.
• The post holder will ensure a named care co-ordinator is allocated for every patient with complex needs who will ensure a proactive, evidence-based approach to clinical interventions, health promotion/prevention activity, and management of acute and long-term conditions using our stepped care approach.
• The post holder will ensure that a single, integrated, care plans developed, and the individualised care is regularly reviewed.
• The post holder will ensure that a comprehensive risk assessments and care plans are regularly reviewed in a needs-led review cycle.
• The post holder will ensure a care coordination criteria and MDT meetings for patients with complex needs will be tailored to the needs of the establishment.
• The post holder will ensure that they undertake all training in evidence-based CBT approaches, to enhance consistency and quality of care delivery
• The post holder will support patients to manage their health at every stage, from oral health to long term conditions.
• The post holder will ensure that health promotion embedded into every aspect of the service.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION PLEASE READ:

Sponsorship not available for this post.

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 photographic ID

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 RGN

Experience

• Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
• Experience of setting, monitoring, and evaluating standards of care.
• Experience of working within secure environment or prison settings
• Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare

Skills and Abilities

• 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.
• Ability to work effectively and autonomously

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.

Recruitment and Retention Resourcing Officer