Job summary
Bank Senior Nurse - Kent Prisons - Band 6
As part of the Kent Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking forcompassionate, knowledgeable and motivatedSenior Nursesto join our friendly teams working across our Kent prisons on Bank.
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 patients 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.
As part of the role you will be required to work at least two days in a 6-week period to have supervision, talks with colleagues, attended team meetings etc. In order to work as a bank only worker you will need to have completed preceptorship training or obtained 6 months post qualification experience.
We have 7 prisons in Kent: HMP Elmley, HMP Swaleside and HMP Standford Hill are all located on the Isle of Sheppey.
HMP Rochester, HMP Cookham Wood, HMP Maidstone and HMP East Sutton Park are located in West Kent.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Bank Nurse you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders.We deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice-based clinical model of care within all our Kent Prisons.
You will maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout a patient care pathway whilst detained in prison. You will be required to ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way and implement strategies designed to promote & improve health and prevent disease whilst in prison.
As a senior member of staff, you'll be responsible for the day-to-day co-ordination of the Healthcare Team, supporting junior colleagues and ensuring systems are in place for clinical supervision to junior team members.
Working in the prison service can seems scary at first butyou'll have the support you need from your team to make a difference every day.
I see the prison as an individual community where I work with a variety of people and provide urgent care, routine health screens like a GP practice and complex needs care to the patients. I have the unique opportunity to support someone throughout their time in prison and make a significant difference to their lives. Furthermore, see them grow, change and improve their general health."Ellen, Clinical Lead
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
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.
The post holder will need to carry a radio and be competent to lead in medical emergency responses.
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
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 that a single, integrated, care plans developed, and the individualised care is regularly reviewed.
See JD& PS
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.
The post holder will need to carry a radio and be competent to lead in medical emergency responses.
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
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 that a single, integrated, care plans developed, and the individualised care is regularly reviewed.
See JD& PS
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- oProfessional Qualification RGN/RMN
- oPost Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience.
Desirable
- Registered General Nurse (RGN)
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 work effectively and autonomously
- Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
Effort and Environment
Essential
- oAbility to manage complex & challenging behaviour
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- oProfessional Qualification RGN/RMN
- oPost Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience.
Desirable
- Registered General Nurse (RGN)
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 work effectively and autonomously
- Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
