Job summary
Bank Substance Misuse Nurse Band 6
Thank you for taking an interest in our Substance Misuse Service Bank Nurse position. We hope that you find this overview useful and look forward to receiving your application.
Our healthcare departments operate across seven prisons each of which require a bespoke service responding to the prisoner and prison needs:
Prison
Location
Category
Population
Healthcare
HMP Elmley
Isle of Sheppey
'B' Remand
1,200 (male)
24/7
Inc. Inpatient Unit
HMP Swaleside
'B' High Security
1,200 (male)
HMP Standford Hill
'D' Open
500 (male)
Standard
HMP Rochester/ HMP Cookham Wood
Rochester
'C'
650 (male)
24/7
HMP Maidstone
Maidstone
'C'
500 (male)
24/7
HMP E Sutton Park
'D' Open
100 (female)
Standard
The seven prisons are located across three estates, Isle of Sheppey, Rochester and Maidstone, with the Isle of Sheppey prisons being with a few minutes' walk from each other and East Sutton Park approximately 7 miles from Maidstone.
Please note this is an opportunity to join the Trust Bank and work on an as and when required basis
Main duties of the job
We are looking for dedicated Substance Misuse Service Nurses to cover bank shifts providing specialised assessment and clinical care to prisoners with identified substance misuse / dependency and related physical health issues in prison. Working closely with wider healthcare and prison departments to manage immediate risks and develop person centred collaboratively agreed recovery plan objectives.
We are looking for nurses with experience of substance misuse and who can pick night shifts and can do any days not just weekends.
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
Key Task and Responsibilities
To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level; to include
Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidence-based interventions
Care Planning and risk assessing
One-to-one and group-work facilitation
managing a mixed and challenging caseload
providing appropriate, pragmatic harm minimisation advice to patients
providing drug, alcohol and holistic health education to patients and colleagues
Leadership
- Provide supervision to junior staff and to receive supervision as directed (line management and clinical).
- To develop and take on a specialist lead role within the Integrated Substance Misuse Service as appropriate and provide peer support and training in this area.
- To contribute towards support, advice, consultation, and training for other prison departments.
- Provide supervision, mentorship & leadership for junior staff.
Clinical
- To complete comprehensive clinical assessment, developing immediate risk management and safety planning and instigate recovery planning for all prisoners arriving in HMP Bristol who have an identified substance misuse need/dependency issue.
- Through assessment, identify and escalate safeguarding concerns relating to patients and their families at the point of arrival into HMPPS.
- Assist in the clinical oversight of new arrivals over the first five days in prison.
- Correctly identify indicators of withdrawal or sedation and request appropriate clinical interventions to support patients including Opiate Replacement Therapy, alcohol detoxification and benzodiazepine detoxification.
- Provide relevant harm minimisation and health education advice for patients with alcohol and substance use issues, including education in the administration of Naloxone.
- Provide a range of evidenced-based specialised clinical care in the treatment of alcohol and substance dependency, and signposting for co-morbid conditions associated with and compounding to, patients substance and/or alcohol use.
- Ensure that patients needs are addressed effectively and in a timely manner, ensuring equivalence of care or better that one would expect from accessing services in the community.
- Participate in and co-ordinate joint and collaborative care planning for patients with additional complexities, including developing appropriate signposting to specialised services and release planning.
- To perform robust assessment, screening, and interventions to offenders with a learning disability
- To participate in resource centre services as directed, delivering specialist drug, alcohol and holistic healthcare activities under the direction of the clinical lead.
- To work in a psychologically minded way with prisoners in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.
- Please see JD&PS
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Task and Responsibilities
To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level; to include
Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidence-based interventions
Care Planning and risk assessing
One-to-one and group-work facilitation
managing a mixed and challenging caseload
providing appropriate, pragmatic harm minimisation advice to patients
providing drug, alcohol and holistic health education to patients and colleagues
Leadership
- Provide supervision to junior staff and to receive supervision as directed (line management and clinical).
- To develop and take on a specialist lead role within the Integrated Substance Misuse Service as appropriate and provide peer support and training in this area.
- To contribute towards support, advice, consultation, and training for other prison departments.
- Provide supervision, mentorship & leadership for junior staff.
Clinical
- To complete comprehensive clinical assessment, developing immediate risk management and safety planning and instigate recovery planning for all prisoners arriving in HMP Bristol who have an identified substance misuse need/dependency issue.
- Through assessment, identify and escalate safeguarding concerns relating to patients and their families at the point of arrival into HMPPS.
- Assist in the clinical oversight of new arrivals over the first five days in prison.
- Correctly identify indicators of withdrawal or sedation and request appropriate clinical interventions to support patients including Opiate Replacement Therapy, alcohol detoxification and benzodiazepine detoxification.
- Provide relevant harm minimisation and health education advice for patients with alcohol and substance use issues, including education in the administration of Naloxone.
- Provide a range of evidenced-based specialised clinical care in the treatment of alcohol and substance dependency, and signposting for co-morbid conditions associated with and compounding to, patients substance and/or alcohol use.
- Ensure that patients needs are addressed effectively and in a timely manner, ensuring equivalence of care or better that one would expect from accessing services in the community.
- Participate in and co-ordinate joint and collaborative care planning for patients with additional complexities, including developing appropriate signposting to specialised services and release planning.
- To perform robust assessment, screening, and interventions to offenders with a learning disability
- To participate in resource centre services as directed, delivering specialist drug, alcohol and holistic healthcare activities under the direction of the clinical lead.
- To work in a psychologically minded way with prisoners in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.
- Please see JD&PS
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- oProfessional Qualification RGN/RMN
- oPost Graduate Registration Training in Substance Misuse/Dual Diagnosis Psychological therapies RCGP Part 1
Experience
Essential
- oMinimum of two years' experience at Band 5.
- o Post qualification Experience in working within substance misuse services
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.
- oKnowledge of substance misuse assessment, identification and management of withdrawal symptoms.
- 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 Registration Training in Substance Misuse/Dual Diagnosis Psychological therapies RCGP Part 1
Experience
Essential
- oMinimum of two years' experience at Band 5.
- o Post qualification Experience in working within substance misuse services
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.
- oKnowledge of substance misuse assessment, identification and management of withdrawal symptoms.
- 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).
