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Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?
This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Nurse with experience or an interest in substance misuse to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient. In this impactful role, you'll be at the forefront of treatment management, directly influencing health outcomes. Your guidance and oversight will play a crucial role in the health and recovery of individuals under your care, making a significant difference in their lives.
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 patient’s 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.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
As a key member of our team, your role will be instrumental in shaping our strategies and patient outcomes. Your insights and contributions will be invaluable, and you'll collaborate with a diverse group of professionals, contributing to the delivery of an integrated healthcare model.
You will manage a mixed and challenging caseload of patients, delivering a range of specialist interventions including referral management, screening assessments, triage, care planning, risk assessing and evidence-based interventions.
You will provide drug, alcohol and holistic health education to patients and colleagues, including one-to-one and group-work facilitation. You will also champion health promotion initiatives that empower the prison population on substance misuse, focusing on preventative measures and aiming to diminish drug-related harm and improve the overall health and lives of those under our care.
As a leader in our team, you will play a crucial role in maintaining the highest professional standards and clinical practices. Your mentorship and role-modelling of clinical excellence will foster a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring the best possible care for our patients.
Join us in a role that offers endless opportunities for professional development. You'll be encouraged and supported to continue learning, pushing the boundaries of our understanding about substance misuse and its place within the criminal justice system.
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
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rachel O'Sullivan Job title: Head of Healthcare Email address: r.osullivan1@nhs.net
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