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As a senior nurse, you will provide high-quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. At HMP Rochester & HMP Cookham Wood, we deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.
Our senior nurses deliver primary care, emergency response, and first night in custody/new registration services.
You will maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment throughout a patient care pathway while detained in prison.
You will be required to ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely manner and implement strategies to promote and improve health and prevent disease in prison.
As a senior staff member, you will be responsible for the day-to-day coordination of the Healthcare Team, supporting junior colleagues, and ensuring systems are in place for clinical supervision.
Important Sponsorship Information: Due to service budget restrictions, we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy, capable of planning and reaching complex and critical judgments, with decision-making skills.
You will deliver high-quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, including acute & primary care, long-term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic services, and health promotion activities, aligned with NHS plans and frameworks.
You will demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with an understanding of evidence-based nursing practice, proactively ensuring quality and outcome-driven practice daily.
You will support evidence-based practice development and promote research as appropriate.
You will participate in managerial and professional supervision programs, ensuring junior staff receive supervision, training, and annual appraisals, integrating this into team practice.
You will implement effective patient-centered care planning tools, long-term condition registers, and ensure consistent delivery across all prisons within the service.
The post will involve working within skilled multidisciplinary teams, including strategic partners, managing a single referral pathway.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services in community and secure environments, including community health, mental health care, and learning disabilities. Our teams serve all ages and collaborate closely with NHS, local councils, and voluntary sectors across over 125 sites in southern England, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, and secure hospitals.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care, guided by our values:
* We’re Kind
* We’re Fair
* We Listen
* We Care
For further details or informal visits, contact:
* Name: Clare Denny
* Job title: Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer
* Email: claredenny@nhs.net
* Telephone: 07504877653
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
Industries
* Hospitals and Health Care
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