As an expert practitioner and source of expert advice to clinicians, allied health care professionals, offenders, and their carers, provide specialist nurse interventions to offenders.
There are core principles, however, how these are achieved are bespoke to the local healthcare and prison team during the model implementation:
- Patient focused with health promotion at the heart of our care
- Designing services which meet the unique needs of the prison
- The right staff, right place, right time ensuring experienced professionals are on hand to lead and support patients when needed
- A no exclusions model that ensures everyone with mental health needs is managed within the step care model
- Being highly supportive of clinical and prison staff with training, support enabling the team to work smarter and as part of an effective multi-disciplinary team
Urgent and Emergence Care: you will provide day to day operational service delivery, leadership, and line management for those within the UEC care team who respond to urgent and emergency needs. You will support your team to carry out comprehensive assessments, confidently communicating treatment options, and initiating supportive care plans, working with individuals on a 1-2-1 basis alongside the wider multi-disciplinary team.
Planned Care: as the clinical lead and a member of the wider management team, you will be responsible for providing the day-to-day clinical and operational management of the planned care team across an integrated healthcare service, contributing to the strategic direction of the service.
Early days in custody and Release and Transfer: You will work closely with the team manager to ensure a seamless service across all pathways and to maintain a robust, high quality clinical service for patients.
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To deputise for the DeputyHead of Healthcare at HMP/YOI Isis as required or directed.
Assist & support the DeputyHead of Healthcare in the leadership of a nurse-led integrated Healthcare service and develop a specialist practice-based new models of care to HMYOI Isis.
To ensure the delivery of a comprehensive range of quality integrated Healthcare services to offenders
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
To manage a specialised & complex clinical caseload.
To support the Deputy Head of Healthcare to maintain the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service.
As delegated be responsible for the management & co-ordination of the Integrated Healthcare Service Team on a day-to-day basis in the absence of the Deputy Head of Healthcare .
Ensure long term conditions clinics are delivered in a clinically effective, efficient & timely way, in line with service needs.
Work with senior colleagues to develop strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations and agencies as required
As delegated, maximise resources to target need, including the deployment and supervision of staff.
Support the development of robust systems for the collection, triage & allocation of referrals as appropriate, and monitoring and auditing the quality and effectiveness of service delivery.
To monitor and maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout a patients care pathway whilst detained in prison/ forensic services.
Monitor staff performance high standards of electronic record-keeping competencies and patient /offender confidentiality in line prison/ forensic unit policy and systems, through effective monitoring and auditing processes
To monitor and review the implementation of appropriate & effective and accredited care planning tools / CPA for all offenders that are subject to the process in accordance with agreed trust policies.
To carry out clinical supervision to team members including annual appraisal and identification of specific service, training and personal development needs as directed.
Work with the Deputy Head of Healthcare to develop effective systems and interfaces with community health services ensuring continuity of care on release or discharge. Actively promote and demonstrate working across professional and organisational boundaries.
To foster and maintain close working partnerships with all services that may be involved with the care and management of offenders, such as prison staff, healthcare MDTs, forensic services, Ministry of Justice, community acute and primary care services, CMHT’s staff, probation services, CPS, courts, GP’s, housing and benefit services etc.
Monitor staff compliance with all prison and trust clinical policies and procedures as appropriate. Responsible for the management of all matters relating to discipline, complaints and serious & untoward incidents and investigations as required.
Ensure appropriately skilled & qualified staff comply with the administration and management of medications according to their responsibilities in accordance with all relevant policies, guidance and procedures.
Support the selection, recruitment and retention of appropriately skilled staff for the service.
To liaise with others to share expertise, promote ideas and to ensure the service is working collaboratively with key stakeholders, agencies and organisations as required.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide:
Proof of right to work documentation
Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
Proof of address documentation
Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
Address History:
5 years address history will be needed.
Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).