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Bank Senior Nurse - Kent Prisons - Band 6
As part of the Kent Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking forcompassionate, knowledgeable and motivatedSenior Nursesto join our friendly teams working across our Kent prisons on Bank.
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 patients 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.
As part of the role you will be required to work at least two days in a 6-week period to have supervision, talks with colleagues, attended team meetings etc. In order to work as a bank only worker you will need to have completed preceptorship training or obtained 6 months post qualification experience.
We have 7 prisons in Kent: HMP Elmley, HMP Swaleside and HMP Standford Hill are all located on the Isle of Sheppey.
HMP Rochester, HMP Cookham Wood, HMP Maidstone and HMP East Sutton Park are located in West Kent.
As a Senior Bank Nurse you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. We deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice-based clinical model of care within all our Kent Prisons.
You will maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout a patient care pathway whilst detained in prison. You will be required to ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way and implement strategies designed to promote & improve health and prevent disease whilst in prison.
As a senior member of staff, you'll be responsible for the day-to-day co-ordination of the Healthcare Team, supporting junior colleagues and ensuring systems are in place for clinical supervision to junior team members.
Working in the prison service can seems scary at first but you'll have the support you need from your team to make a difference every day.
I see the prison as an individual community where I work with a variety of people and provide urgent care, routine health screens like a GP practice and complex needs care to the patients. I have the unique opportunity to support someone throughout their time in prison and make a significant difference to their lives. Furthermore, see them grow, change and improve their general health."Ellen, Clinical Lead
Oxleas – 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
* We’re Kind
* We’re Fair
* We Listen
* We Care
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Clare Denny Job title: Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer Email address: claredenny@nhs.net Telephone number: 07504877653
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