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Candidates will benefit from a supportive learning environment, including a preceptorship program, and will be instrumental in promoting health and well-being among the offender population. The role requires strong communication with prison staff, external NHS providers, and a commitment to evidence-based practice. Applicants need to complete National Security Vetting and provide necessary documentation regarding their identity and residency history. This position provides the chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic and varied healthcare setting.
Are you looking for a challenge?
Are you newly qualified or nearing the end of your nurse training?
Have you thought about a career in prison nursing?
As a newly qualified nurse at HMP Wandsworth we are able to offer a supportive learning and development environment and facilitate your preceptorship program. Please call us for further information.'
We have a number of exciting and challenging new posts in the Offender Healthcare Service at HMP Wandsworth. This is a unique opportunity to be part of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and to work at one of the largest prisons in the UK. You will assist us to provide excellent primary care and substance misuse services for our population.
Offenders are a challenging population group to work with and they often have complex healthcare needs. Offenders often have chaotic lives in the community and a history of poor engagement with community healthcare services. With high rates of substance misuse and mental health problems, this is a real chance to make a difference. Primary Care services including First Night in Custody screening, secondary screening, nurse clinics, long term condition management, health promotion; Inpatient Unit; Emergency Response and Substance Misuse. You will be supported by our friendly team of healthcare staff in an environment where no two days are the same.
- To provide quality primary healthcare to offenders, working as part of multi-disciplinary inpatient team. This may include Reception, First Night centres, Prison wing liaison, long-term conditions management, 24hr emergency response and urgent care services.
- To work in partnership with HMPS , contributing to reducing re-offending and improving the rehabilitation of offenders.
- To work under the direction of senior staff to deliver and constantly strive to improve primary care services
- To provide health care based on the principles of timely, comprehensive assessment and evidence based practice.
- To reduce or mitigate the effects of unhealthy or high risk behaviours.
- To promote effective links with health and related services in the community to ensure continuity of care as appropriate.
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- To provide primary care nursing care to offenders. This will require liaison with prison and Serco senior managers and staff probation services, education staff, security personnel, and external NHS providers both in primary and secondary care, and visiting specialists when required.
- To support senior staff in the development of high quality primary health care through the effective assessment, development and implementation programmes. To assess care needs and provide high quality nursing care as a member of a multi-disciplinary team for offenders who have primary healthcare needs utilising the care planning and CPA processes and risk assessment & care planning.
- To maintain accurate, legible records of care provided based upon the CPA care plan process, incorporating relevant communication and liaison with other care providers and the wider prison establishment
- To promote the overall health and well-being of the offender population using evidence based practice.
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/jbnsmkKc
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/jbnsmkKc ).
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