Staff Nurse - Primary Care

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.

As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Staff Nurse to join our friendly team at HMP Channings Wood.

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 our primary careteam, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.

Main duties of the job

Our Staff Nurses have a very varied role where no two days are the same. As a staff nurse you will be required to exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgements. You will be delivering high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison which will include acute & primary care, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities. In order to do the above you will be required 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.

Our staff nurses operate in 3 core areas:

Reception/First night in custody
Primary care
Emergency Response

As a staff nurse you will screen new arrivals to the prison, completing detailed reception screens and assessing risks for new patients. This will enable you to ascertain what the patient may require in their first 48 hours on site.

You will then run daily clinics which include urgent care same day matters to triage and routine primary care such as long term condition management, imms & vacs, wound care, health screening and promotion and care planning.

Our staff nurses also provide emergency response to any incidents on site at the prison this includes on the wings, in healthcare and communal areas.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. 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.

Our healthcare departments operate across three prisons in the Devon cluster each of which require a bespoke service responding to the prisoner and prison needs:

HMP Channings Wood - Cat C - Population = 731
HMP Dartmoor - Cat C - Population = 659
HMP Exeter - Cat B (Remand) - Population = 412

Oxleas are the lead provider across 10 South West prisons and operate in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Dorset in addition to the above.

Our wider 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 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.

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

15 September 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year pa

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

277-5226809-SWP-E

Job locations

HMP Channings Wood

Greenhill Lane, Denbury

Newton Abbot

TQ12 6DW

Job description

Job responsibilities

To support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model.
To manage a complex clinical caseload.
To support the development, implement and maintenance the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service.
Ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way, in line with service needs.
To support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model.
To support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model.
To manage a complex clinical caseload.
To support the development, implement and maintenance the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service.
Ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way, in line with service needs.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model.
To manage a complex clinical caseload.
To support the development, implement and maintenance the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service.
Ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way, in line with service needs.
To support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model.
To support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model.
To manage a complex clinical caseload.
To support the development, implement and maintenance the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service.
Ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way, in line with service needs.

Person Specification

Qualifications and experience

Essential

Registered NMC Qualification
Experience of multi - professional collaboration

Desirable

Understand and/or experience working in a secure environment
experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
An ability to assess risk and care-plan effectively
Ability to manage complex and challenging behaviour
Ability to work in a secure environment

Person Specification

Qualifications and experience

Essential

Registered NMC Qualification
Experience of multi - professional collaboration

Desirable

Understand and/or experience working in a secure environment
experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
An ability to assess risk and care-plan effectively
Ability to manage complex and challenging behaviour
Ability to work in a secure environment

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.