Senior Nurse

Job responsibilities

• Develop and maintain inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working with all relevant agencies and organisations.

• Develop and maintain close working partnerships with HMPS, senior management teams and staff, probation services, CPS, police, and all other statutory and nonstatutory agencies that are integral to offender care and offender management.

Management responsibilities:

• The post holder will exercise good personal time management, punctuality, and consistent reliable attendance.

• Required to make clinical and risk management judgements on situations as they arise and respond using appropriate contingencies thereby ensuring the safety of the client.

• Act as a representative of the service at appropriate meetings as required.

• Participate in the annual Professional Development Reviews and demonstrate reflective practice through the Knowledge and Skills Framework

• The post holder be responsible for maintaining stock & advising on resources required to carry out the job.

Leadership

• To undertake effective support, guidance, supervision, and appraisal of junior staff

• To review and reflect on own practice and performance through effective use of professional and operational supervision and appraisal.

• To demonstrate basic leadership skills through the management of designated user involvement projects.

• Contribute to the Trust's, directorates and team's clinical governance arrangements and quality arrangements and quality agenda.

• To review and reflect on own practice and performance through effective use of professional and operational supervision and appraisal guided by KSF.

Physical Effort:

• The work is performed in a ward environment and requires the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards. Must have the ability to walk short distances and use stairs.

Mental effort:

• The post holder will require occasional periods of prolonged concentration, and or unpredictable working pattern, ability to work under pressure and provide support to colleagues in a difficult situation. Maintain a professional approach while working in challenging, distressing situations or dealing with challenging behaviour.

Emotional effort:

• There may be a requirement to deal with highly distressing or emotional circumstances. The post holder may require supporting individuals, their families and carers when faced with unwelcome news and life changing diagnoses.

Working Condition:

• The holder work in an area, which complies with the Trust Health & Safety Policy. There is limited exposure to hazardous substances, but these are controlled.

• May be exposed to violent and aggressive patients, but these are managed by the officers.

Clinical:

• The post holder will contribute to the Trust, Directorate and teams clinical governance and quality agenda including the setting and monitoring of practice standards.

• Provide a range of psychosocial interventions including self-management support and provision of advice or information regarding facilities local to the area of need of an individual utilizing your own knowledge or media provided by local authorities.

• You will be expected to maintain a balance between the therapeutic alliance, active risk management and the statutory and legal framework.

• You will be accountable for the assessment of support needs, risk assessment, development, implementation, and evaluation of user involvement projects and to assess and manage fluctuations in risk relating to personality disordered offenders in the community. To identify and use innovative problem solving and decision-making skills.

Research

• The post holder will require to lead on or participate in research & audit projects.

• The post holder will demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate current research, apply them to practice and disseminate findings at local level.

• To broaden research and development skills through participation in local audit and research projects.

Communication:

• The post holder will require to communicate complex and sensitive issues to a range of professionals, prisoners, and carers within the framework of confidentiality and Data Protection.

• To communicate effectively on a range of issues that are often complex in their nature and in complex situations.

• To establish links with agencies dealing with personality disordered prisoners, substance misuse and forensic mental health, ensuring close working relationships with Probation and Criminal Justice agencies.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, 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 photographic ID

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 soughtfrom: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).

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC PIN
• Grade and years of experience

Experience

Essential

• Experience of Minimum of 12-18 months experience at Band 5.
• Experience of working within secure & prison settings
• Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare
• o Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations

Desirable

• Msc in Mental Health

Skills/Abilites

Essential

• Ability to establish rapport with difficult to engage service users.
• Ability to build effective working relationships.
• Effective written verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
• Ability to work autonomously, set own priorities and manage time effectively.

Desirable

• other qualification

Enviroment

Essential

• Working in a prison setting
• Experience of ACCT reviews
• Experience of running an inpatient Unit
• Forensic experience and working in a high pressured environment

Leadership skills

Essential

• Experience of clinical supervision
• Experiencing in acting as a charge nurse
• Experience in deputising as an assistant ward manager
• Experience in quality innovation programmes to improve care
• Knowledge of NHS guidance and policies

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).