Bank Learning Disability Nurse (RMN/ RMNLD) - HMP Leyhill inGloucester inGloucester PUBLISHED TUE 12 NOV 2024

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.

Oxleas NHS trust were awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and currently have a portfolio of 19 prisons across the South of England. We are currently looking to expand our pool of bank workers by recruiting a Learning Disability Nurse (RMN/RMNLD)to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis.

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.

Participate in the assessment and preparation of service users for the first intake and support other nurses to undertake this task.

Promote and develop communication systems which enable staff to work in a person-centred way with service users.

Ensure the provision of contemporary evidence based challenging behaviour services.

Actively participate in the adoption of a person-centred holistic approach to service user's assessment and care planning using contemporary models of care. To involve service users with mild/moderate learning disabilities in these processes.

Demonstrate evidence-based guidance on person centred/holistic assessment, care planning, intervention, and evaluation for adults with severe challenging behaviour,

Ensure the principles of Valuing People and Transforming Care are embedded in practice.

Ensuring Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults policy is understood and adhered to and that issues are reported appropriately.

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Demonstrate understanding the importance of developments/contemporary practice issues in relation to challenging behaviour and people learning disabilities.

Demonstrate understanding and the importance of risk assessment and management of risk with particular reference to people with mild to severe learning disabilities and challenging behaviour.

Actively involved in clinical supervision and staff support group facilitation around challenging behaviour practice and interventions.

Undertake direct specialist assessment/therapeutic work with individuals or groups, in liaison with the MDT and encourage others to do so.

Lead in co-ordinating and/or take part in the education of a range of specialist training initiatives about challenging behaviour and people with mild to moderate learning disabilities.

Contribute to Clinical Governance and lead on specific projects.

Work to enhance the standards of nursing practice across the Service.

Participate in local audit and trust wide audits.

Work closely with prisons MDT, other Oxleas Services and internal/external colleagues to enhance service.

• Promote equality and diversity initiatives.

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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 photographicID

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: www.jobsincare.com/job/jbnsUi2v

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 ( www.jobsincare.com/job/jbnsUi2v ).