Main area: Offender Healthcare
Grade Band: 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift Pattern)
Job ref: 277-6989837-SWALE-B
Site: HMP Swaleside
Town: Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey
Salary: £48,148 - £54,809 pa inc
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/05/2025 23:59
Job overview
Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative, and fast-paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, regardless of their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.
As part of the Kent Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS Trust in 2022, we are expanding our recruitment and are looking to recruit a compassionate, knowledgeable, and motivated Offender Healthcare Paramedic to join our friendly team at HMP Swaleside.
Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well-being among those in prison. We pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients' future resettlement into the community. We deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy, and Clinical Substance Misuse services in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve well-being and support better outcomes.
As part of our primary care team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (including pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service that encourages career and personal development to enhance clinical and interpersonal skills.
Main duties of the job
As an expert practitioner and source of advice to clinicians, allied health professionals, offenders, and prison staff, you will provide specialist paramedic interventions and support to junior colleagues. You will assist and support the Operational Manager in leading a nurse-led integrated primary care service, developing a clinical model of care based on specialist practice.
This role requires individuals who are driven, ambitious, and passionate about providing high-quality, safe, and effective care to offenders, with a desire to influence and work closely with clinical and managerial staff.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services in community and secure environments, including community health, mental health, learning disabilities, and more. Our multidisciplinary teams serve people of all ages across many settings, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools, and homes.
We operate over 125 sites across South England and London, managing hospital sites such as Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as secure units like the Bracton Centre. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services in the UK, covering several regions.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care, guided by our values:
* We Listen
* We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Operational
* Respond to medical emergencies within the prison.
* Support delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service.
* Manage a small clinical caseload.
* Triaging patients with minor ailments.
* Provide paramedic interventions within scope of practice.
* Support the development and maintenance of standards for healthcare in prisons.
* Ensure clinics and consultations are delivered effectively and timely.
* Maintain systems for triage, referral, and quality monitoring.
* Administer intravenous injections, immunisations, and manage syringe pumps and infusions as needed.
Management responsibilities
* Implement strategies to promote health and prevent disease.
* Supervise staff and optimize resource use.
* Delegate responsibilities while maintaining accountability.
* Ensure care continuity and effective case management.
* Implement care planning tools and interface with community and hospital services.
* Maintain partnerships with relevant agencies and organizations involved in offender care.
Human Resources
* Coordinate the healthcare team daily.
* Ensure clinical supervision, annual appraisals, and staff development.
Governance
* Ensure compliance with prison and trust policies.
* Manage medication administration according to policies.
* Maintain high standards of record-keeping and confidentiality.
General
* Collaborate with other trust personnel and external agencies.
* Work effectively in challenging environments.
* Be aware of environmental hazards and safety policies.
* Follow trust policies and prison standards.
* Promote equality and respect in the workplace.
Communication
* Develop inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working relationships.
* Build partnerships with HMPS, prison staff, and other agencies involved in offender management.
Custodial Responsibilities
* Secure issued keys and comply with prison security protocols.
* Respond to security threats and incidents.
* Report breaches and contribute to risk assessments.
Important Information
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting. You will need to provide proof of right to work, ID, address, and other documentation as specified.
Person Specification
Education/Qualification
* Registered Paramedic
* Postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience
Experience
* Minimum of two years’ post-preceptorship experience
* Experience in multi-professional collaboration and working in secure settings
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
* Effective communication skills
* Understanding of change management
* Ability to work autonomously and lead teams
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