Job overview

Bank RGN Band 6

HMP EXETER

This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 RGN to join the team at HMP EXETER

To provide a quality primary care service and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. To support junior colleagues. Assist & support the Team managers (Band 7) as directed to deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care

Main duties of the job

Within this role you will support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model. You will manage a complex clinical caseload, supporting the development, implementation and maintenance of the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service. You will implement strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations and agencies as required. Whilst implementing appropriate & effective and accredited care planning tools that are subject to the process in accordance with agreed Trust Policies you will maintain close working partnerships with all services that may be involved with the care and management of offenders, (prison staff, Ministry of Justice, Trust & Directorate senior managers & relevant forums, CMHT staff, NHS Hospitals, Probation Services, CPS, Courts, GP's, community health services, Housing/Benefit services, social care, community multi­ agency forums etc.). The successful candidate will hold a professional qualification as a Registered General Nurse and have a minimum of two years’ experience at Band 5. Ideally with experience of working within a secure prison setting.

Working for our organisation

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