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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.

Please note: In order to work as a bank only worker you will need to have completed preceptorship training or obtained 6 months post qualification experience.

Main duties of the job

·       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.

Working for our organisation

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