Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative Registered Nurse to join the nursing leadership team as practice development nurse. We have two vacancies for a Practice Development Nurse, one will cover our three prisons located on the Isle of Sheppey (HMP Elmley, HMP Swaleside and HMP Standford Hill) and the other will cover our three prisons in West Kent (HMP Maidstone, HMP Rochester, HMP East Sutton Park).
We are seeking highly skilled, knowledgeable and dynamic nurses who have extensive clinical experience across primary care services. As a practice development nurse you will be passionate about delivering high quality care in combination with teaching colleagues and other learners within Kent prisons.
Effective management, communication and leadership skills are essential for this role and the post holder must be adaptable to service needs and be able to demonstrate initiative and possess a proactive approach to improving standards of practice, education and skills across services.
This role will have a focus on our primary care services which include nurses and support workers caring for people who have physical health related conditions. There will also be opportunities to deliver training and support staff within our primary care teams as we work towards building skills and closer/integrated working between physical and mental health services within Kent prisons.
Main duties of the job
As an expert practitioner, and source of expert advice to offenders, carers, and colleagues, the post holder is expected to take an active role in clinical nursing education across the prison services. They would also ensure that services are offender-focussed and reflect the NHS modernisation agenda.
The post holder will work with others and support research and evaluation in line with Trust Strategy to improve the quality and clinical effectiveness of nursing strategies. They will contribute to the clinical governance agenda by promoting evidence based and supportive care to mentally disordered offenders and those presenting with substance misuse related concerns.
The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy, have an ability to reach complex and critical judgements and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations and demands of the job.
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: o We're Kind o We're Fair o We Listen o We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
IMPORTANT PLEASE READ:
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 photographicID
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).
- To manage a clinical caseload, relevant to clinical expertise.
- To act as an expert practitioner demonstrating advanced knowledge and skill beyond that associated with traditional nursing roles, including the integration of research evidence into practice by expert clinical reasoning and decision-making.
- To utilise advanced clinical reasoning skills and evidence based knowledge in the management of offenders with highly complex presentations and to be clinically competent to utilise expert skills and knowledge.
- To develop, establish and implement guidelines and nurse led initiatives, particularly where precedents do not exist.
- To create, develop and design with other multi-professional staff care pathways for the treatment of the particular offender groups with the aim of disseminating good practice and improving outcomes.
- To interpret and analyse complex clinical and non-clinical facts, to regularly provide expert advice and second opinion to health care professionals, including when views may differ or conflict.
- To provide expert nursing advice on the treatment and support of offenders.
- To provide a consultancy service to clinical teams across the prison services.
- To be involved in the development of a research culture within the prison services, which will enable practice to be informed.
- To access relevant clinical supervision for your work, and provide supervision for less experienced practitioners of all professions.
- To promote evidence based nursing practice.
- To exercise a key role within the prison clinical governance forums.
- To contribute as required to the assessment of an individual and individual plans in response to the offenders physical, social, spiritual, cultural and psychological needs, monitoring the same to ensure the achievement and maintenance of the highest quality care.
- To ensure a high priority is afforded to health promotion initiatives for offenders
- To participate and promote multi-disciplinary working.
- To develop nursing policies and procedures for the delivery of care,
- To develop, lead and audit training programmes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
IMPORTANT PLEASE READ:
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 photographicID
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).
- To manage a clinical caseload, relevant to clinical expertise.
- To act as an expert practitioner demonstrating advanced knowledge and skill beyond that associated with traditional nursing roles, including the integration of research evidence into practice by expert clinical reasoning and decision-making.
- To utilise advanced clinical reasoning skills and evidence based knowledge in the management of offenders with highly complex presentations and to be clinically competent to utilise expert skills and knowledge.
- To develop, establish and implement guidelines and nurse led initiatives, particularly where precedents do not exist.
- To create, develop and design with other multi-professional staff care pathways for the treatment of the particular offender groups with the aim of disseminating good practice and improving outcomes.
- To interpret and analyse complex clinical and non-clinical facts, to regularly provide expert advice and second opinion to health care professionals, including when views may differ or conflict.
- To provide expert nursing advice on the treatment and support of offenders.
- To provide a consultancy service to clinical teams across the prison services.
- To be involved in the development of a research culture within the prison services, which will enable practice to be informed.
- To access relevant clinical supervision for your work, and provide supervision for less experienced practitioners of all professions.
- To promote evidence based nursing practice.
- To exercise a key role within the prison clinical governance forums.
- To contribute as required to the assessment of an individual and individual plans in response to the offenders physical, social, spiritual, cultural and psychological needs, monitoring the same to ensure the achievement and maintenance of the highest quality care.
- To ensure a high priority is afforded to health promotion initiatives for offenders
- To participate and promote multi-disciplinary working.
- To develop nursing policies and procedures for the delivery of care,
- To develop, lead and audit training programmes.
Person Specification
Registered Nurse
Essential
Desirable
- 8 years post registration
Educated to Degree level and/or relevant experience
Essential
- Masters Qualification or experience
Experience of skills training/teaching
Essential
- Experience of skills training/teaching
Person Specification
Registered Nurse
Essential
Desirable
- 8 years post registration
Educated to Degree level and/or relevant experience
Essential
- Masters Qualification or experience
Experience of skills training/teaching
Essential
- Experience of skills training/teaching
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.
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
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.
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).
