Primary Care Nurses (RGN)
Job Description
Job summary
Are you looking for a challenge?
Are you newly qualified or nearing the end of your nurse training?
Have you thought about a career in prison nursing?
As a newly qualified nurse at HMP Wandsworth we are able to offer a supportive learning and development environment and facilitate your preceptorship program. Please call us for further information.'
We have a number of exciting and challenging new posts in the Offender Healthcare Service at HMP Wandsworth. This is a unique opportunity to be part of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and to work at one of the largest prisons in the UK. You will assist us to provide excellent primary care and substance misuse services for our population.
Offenders are a challenging population group to work with and they often have complex healthcare needs. Offenders often have chaotic lives in the community and a history of poor engagement with community healthcare services. With high rates of substance misuse and mental health problems, this is a real chance to make a difference. Primary Care services including First Night in Custody screening, secondary screening, nurse clinics, long term condition management, health promotion; Inpatient Unit; Emergency Response and Substance Misuse. You will be supported by our friendly team of healthcare staff in an environment where no two days are the same.
Main duties of the job
- To provide quality primary healthcare to offenders, working as part of multi-disciplinary inpatient team. This may include Reception, First Night centres, Prison wing liaison, long-term conditions management, 24hr emergency response and urgent care services.
- To work in partnership with HMPS , contributing to reducing re-offending and improving the rehabilitation of offenders.
- To work under the direction of senior staff to deliver and constantly strive to improve primary care services
- To provide 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.
- To promote effective links with health and related services in the community to ensure continuity of care as appropriate.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. 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 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent and manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital in Woolwich as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are one of the largest providers of prison health services providing healthcare to prisoners across 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 responsibilities
- To provide primary care nursing care to offenders. This will require liaison with prison and Serco senior managers and staff probation services, education staff, security personnel, and external NHS providers both in primary and secondary care, and visiting specialists when required.
- To support senior staff in the development of high quality primary health care through the effective assessment, development and implementation programmes. To assess care needs and provide high quality nursing care as a member of a multi-disciplinary team for offenders who have primary healthcare needs utilising the care planning and CPA processes and risk assessment & care planning.
- To maintain accurate, legible records of care provided based upon the CPA care plan process, incorporating relevant communication and liaison with other care providers and the wider prison establishment
- To promote the overall health and well-being of the offender population using evidence based practice.
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 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).
Person Specification
Degree in Nursing/ Training and qualifications
Essential
- RGN
- Phlebotomy skills
Desirable
- Understanding and or experience secure environments (prisons or forensic services)
- Clinical assessment Course.
- ECG monitoring or willingness to undertake relevant training
Skills
Essential
- Good IT skills
- Good communication skills
- Safe and effective assessment and care planning
Desirable
- Experience of working within a secure a setting ie Prison.
- Experience of working with SystemOne
Experience
Essential
- Understanding and or experience of secure environments.
Desirable
- Experience and understanding of the audit process
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
HMP Wandsworth
Heathfield Road
London
SW18 3HU
