Bank Staff Nurse (RMN/ RGN)) - HMP YOI ISIS Band 6 inThamesmead inThamesmead PUBLISHED
FRI 8 NOV 2024
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust rGNKMGB5
Job Summary for Bank Staff Nurse (RMN/RGN) - HMP YOI ISIS Band 6
The Bank Staff Nurse plays a crucial role in providing primary care interventions to offenders at HMP YOI Isis, as part of the Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust healthcare team. Responsibilities include delivering integrated nurse-led primary care services, managing a clinical caseload, and supporting junior staff while collaborating with senior managers.
Key duties involve:
- Providing care for patients during reception, first-night assessments, ongoing treatment, and management of long-term conditions.
- Exercising professional autonomy and making critical decisions under supervision.
- Participating in clinical audits, research, and the development of evidence-based practice.
- Leading clinical supervision and training for junior staff, ensuring they receive appropriate support, appraisal, and development opportunities.
- Monitoring the effectiveness of service delivery, promoting health improvement strategies, and working collaboratively with other health professionals and organizations.
The role requires a strong commitment to maintaining high standards of patient care within a multi-disciplinary team environment and ensuring continuity of care throughout an offender's stay in the facility.
Bank Staff Nurse (RMN/RGN), Band 6- HMP YOI ISIS
To provide primary care interventions to offenders and support to junior colleagues. Assist & support senior managers to deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care services and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.
This may include in-patient services, Reception, First Night Centres, long-term conditions management and enhanced diagnostic assessment and treatment
As part of the integrated service, provide a range of quality services and interventions.
The post holder will exercise a degree of personal and professional autonomy, make complex and critical judgments under the supervision of the senior staff and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role.
Oxleas NHS Foundation trust provides high standard quality care in HMP/YOI Isis. The healthcare team is a multi-disciplinary team working closely together to ensure the highest standards of patient care. Our primary care team work with prisonersat reception to the prison, during their first night attending to immediate healthcare needs, in on-going care on the wings and also in supporting patients with long term conditions and those involved with enhanced diagnostics of their condition andsubsequent treatment. This position will be based within the primary care team, substance misuse or the inpatient unit.
To support and undertake research, clinical audit and evaluate the service for as directed. This will include acute care, long term conditions management and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health and National Service Frameworks.
To demonstrate and provide robust clinical leadership to junior staff with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality and outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis.
To participate in all monitoring systems to promote the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.
To participate and lead as directed in the professional clinical supervision programme, to ensure all junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.
To participate in the implementation of effective and appropriate patient centred care planning tools / Care Programme Approach (CPA) and consistent delivery throughout all the prisons and forensic units within the service.
The post holder will participate in all service reviews as required.
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To support the ongoing development and delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service team clinical model.
To manage a clinical caseload.
Ensure long term conditions clinics are delivered in a clinically effective, efficient & timely way, in line with service needs.
Deliver strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations and agencies as directed
Support systems for the collection, triage & management of all referrals.
Monitor and audit of the quality and effectiveness of all aspects of service delivery.
Maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout an offenders care pathway whilst detained in prison.
Carry out clinical supervision to junior staff including annual appraisal and identification of specific service, training and personal development needs as directed.
To liaise with others to share expertise, promote ideas and work collaboratively with key stakeholders, agencies and organisations as required.
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