Job Description

As part of the Kent Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Senior Nurses to 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 seven 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.



We are looking for bank staff who will be able to pick up regular shifts at any of the sites above.



As a senior 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.



You will maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout the patient care pathway whilst detained in prison including medication administration. 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 and improve health and prevent disease whilst in prison.



Senior nurses will be expected respond to medical emergencies acting as first responder and being able to use proactive clinical judgement.



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



Key Task and 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 a named care co-ordinator is allocated for every patient with complex needs who will ensure a proactive, evidence-based approach to clinical interventions, health promotion/prevention activity, and management of acute and long-term conditions using our stepped care approach.



The post holder will ensure that a single, integrated, care plans developed, and the individualised care is regularly reviewed.



The post holder will ensure that a comprehensive risk assessments and care plans are regularly reviewed in a needs-led review cycle.



The post holder will ensure a care coordination criteria and MDT meetings for patients with complex needs will be tailored to the needs of the establishment.



The post holder will support patients to manage their health at every stage, from oral health to long term conditions.



The post holder will ensure that health promotion embedded into every aspect of the service.