Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Staff Nurse - Registered General Nurse
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Our Staff Nurses have a very varied role where no two days are the same.
As a staff nurse, you will be required to exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgements. You will be delivering high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, which will include acute & primary care, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities. You will be required to demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a proactive approach to ensure quality & outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis.
Our Staff Nurses Operate In 3 Areas
- Primary Care
- Medication Administration
- Emergency Response
You will run daily clinics which include urgent care same day matters to triage and routine primary care such as long term condition management, imms & vacs, wound care, health screening and promotion & care planning. Alongside medication administration.
Our staff nurses also provide emergency response to any incidents on site at the prison, this includes on the wings, in healthcare & communal areas.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
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Key Task And Responsibilities
- Exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgments, using decision-making skills, within the framework of established Trust policies, procedures, and the NMC Code of Conduct.
- Deliver high-quality clinical care within the service. This will include acute and primary care, long-term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services, health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators and National Service Frameworks.
- Demonstrate and provide robust clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a proactive approach to ensure quality and outcome-driven practice on a day-to-day basis.
- Provide day-to-day supervision, mentorship, and support to junior colleagues, students, and unregistered staff, including the safe delegation of tasks in line with the NMC Code of Conduct.
- Act as a role model by upholding and demonstrating the Trust values of We're Kind, We're Fair, We Listen, We Care in all interactions with service users, families, carers, and colleagues.
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Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Kent, South London, Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire,
Our Healthcare Departments Operate Across Seven Prisons In The Kent Cluster Each Of Which Require a Bespoke Service Responding To The Prisoner And Prison Needs
- HMP Elmley - Cat B - population 1,200 Men
- HMP Swaleside - Cat B - population 900 Men
- HMP Standford Hill - Cat D - population 500 Men
- HMP Rochester/Cookham Wood - Cat C - population 700 Men
- HMP Maidstone - Cat C - population 600 Men
- HMP East Sutton Park - Cat D - population 100 Female
Oxleas are the lead NHS provider of Offender Healthcare.
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 and Retention Resourcing Officer
- Email address: claredenny@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07504877653
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