Senior Nurse

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

  • To provide a quality primary care service and a range of specialist interventions for offenders.
  • To support junior colleagues.
  • Assist & support the Team managers (Band 7) as directed to deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care to Bristol, South Gloucestershire & Wiltshire South-West prisons.

Main duties of the job

Key Principles of health and wellbeing model for Prison Service

Patient focused with health promotion at the heart of our care

Putting the right staff in the right place at the right time - specialist posts to ensure that experience is on hand to lead and support patients e.g., leads in learning disability, long term conditions, older adults, complex case practitioners and discharge coordinators.

Designing and delivering healthcare for the unique needs of each prison.

Being highly supportive of clinical and prison staff with training and support enabling the team to work smarter and as part of an effective Multi Professional Team.

About us

Oxleas - 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:

  • We're Kind
  • We're Fair
  • We Listen
  • We Care

Date posted

17 January 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£33,706 to £40,588 a year pa inc

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

277-4870752-BRIS-A

Job locations

HMP Bristol

19 Cambridge Road

Bristol

BS7 8PS


Job description

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.
  • 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, 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.

Job description

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.
  • 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, 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.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

  • oProfessional Qualification. (Registered General Nurse)
  • oPost Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential

  • oMinimum of two years' experience at Band 5.
  • oWorking knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare
  • oExperience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
  • o Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.

Desirable

  • oExperience of working within secure & prison settings (desirable but not essential)

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

Essential

  • oAbility to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
  • oAbility to demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working.
  • oAbility to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.
  • oKnowledge of current National Prison Health Quality & Performance Indicators
  • oGood analytical and judgement skills

Effort and Environment

Essential

  • oAbility to manage complex & challenging behaviour
Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

  • oProfessional Qualification. (Registered General Nurse)
  • oPost Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential

  • oMinimum of two years' experience at Band 5.
  • oWorking knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare
  • oExperience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
  • o Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.

Desirable

  • oExperience of working within secure & prison settings (desirable but not essential)

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

Essential

  • oAbility to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
  • oAbility to demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working.
  • oAbility to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.
  • oKnowledge of current National Prison Health Quality & Performance Indicators
  • oGood analytical and judgement skills

Effort and Environment

Essential

  • oAbility to manage complex & challenging behaviour

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Bristol

19 Cambridge Road

Bristol

BS7 8PS


Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Bristol

19 Cambridge Road

Bristol

BS7 8PS


Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Head of Healthcare

Jason Cooper

jasoncooper@nhs.net

Date posted

17 January 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£33,706 to £40,588 a year pa inc

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

277-4870752-BRIS-A

Job locations

HMP Bristol

19 Cambridge Road

Bristol

BS7 8PS


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