We currently have an exciting opportunity for Band 5 Staff Nurses to join the Inpatient team at HMP Swaleside in Kent.

With this post you will provide a quality healthcare care service and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. You will support junior colleagues and assist & support the Inpatient manager as directed to deliver a nurse-led integrated healthcare service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care for Kent Prisons.

Main duties of the job

• To work under the direction of senior staff to deliver and constantly strive to improve the offender healthcare services
• To provide mental health care based on the principles of timely, comprehensive assessment and evidence based practice.
• To reduce or mitigate the effects of unhealthy or high risk behaviours (ACCT).
• To promote effective links with health and related services in the community to ensure continuity of care as appropriate (Care program Approach, CPA)

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

The post holder will work as part of a 24 hour multi-disciplinary in-patient team.

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 ensure that they undertake all training in evidence-based CBT approaches, to enhance consistency and quality of care delivery

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.

Person Specification Qualification Essential

• Qualification (RMN)

Desirable

• Already in posession of an NMC PIN

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge Essential

• Compassionate approach to care
• An ability to assess risk and care-plan effectively
• An understanding of the 1983 Mental Health Act and subsequent mental health legislation as they pertain to nursing.
• Ability to demonstrate the safe and effective assessment, triage and care planning & interventions for complex cases.
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing, challenging and complex environment
• Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team.

Desirable

• Underpinning models such as 6 Cs
• Understanding and or experience secure environments (prisons or forensic services)

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