This is an excellent opportunity for a Primary Care Practitioner (Nurse or Paramedic) to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.
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.
Our Band 5 nurses are all given the opportunity to undertake a development pathway, where a clear competency framework is set to aid your professional development. This pathway will focus on both clinical and personal skills to enable your to apply for more senior positions once your competencies have been met.
We strongly encourage applications from both newly qualified registered nurses (who will initially be offered a preceptorship position) and experienced Band 5 nurses looking for a career in offender healthcare, with a structured progression pathway to aid your development.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
To provide a quality primary care service and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. To support junior colleagues. Assist & support the Primary care manager as directed to deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.
Key Principles of health and wellbeing model for Prison Service
Patient focused with health promotion at the heart of our care.
Putting the right staff in the right place at the right time – specialist posts to ensure that experience is on hand to lead and support patients e.g., leads in learning disability, long term conditions, older adults, complex case practitioners and discharge coordinators.
Designing and delivering healthcare for the unique needs of each prison.
Being highly supportive of clinical and prison staff with training and support
enabling the team to work smarter and as part of an effective Multi
Professional Team.
Please note, HMP Bristol operate a 24/7 service.
Shift pattern: 3 x 12.5-hour shifts (7:00am–7:30pm) per week for 3 weeks and 4 x 12.5 hour shifts (7:00am–7:30pm) on the 4th week. Where possible, one shift will be protected for mandatory training, supervision, and administration on-site.
- 2 weekends in every 6-week roster including both Saturday and Sunday.
- 1 set of 3-night shifts every 12-week roster including 2 per annum on weekends (7:00pm–7:30am)
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: Adelle Gibbon Job title: Primary Care Clinical Lead Email address: adelle.gibbon4@nhs.net
