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Trosolwg o'r swydd

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.

We are currently looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Staff Nurse to join our friendly team at HMP Exeter.

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.

As part of our primary care team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

Our Staff Nurses have a very varied role where no two days are the same. As a staff nurse, you will be required to exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgements. You will be delivering high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, which will include acute & primary care, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities. In order to do the above, you will be required to demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality & outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis.

Our staff nurses operate in 3 core areas:

• Reception/First night in custody
• Primary care
• Emergency Response

As a staff nurse, you will screen new arrivals to the prison, completing detailed reception screens and assessing risks for new patients. This will enable you to ascertain what the patient may require in their first 48 hours on site.

You will then run daily clinics which include urgent care same day matters to triage and routine primary care such as long term condition management, imms & vacs, wound care, health screening and promotion & care planning.

Our staff nurses also provide emergency response to any incidents on site at the prison, this includes on the wings, in healthcare & communal areas.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. 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.

Our healthcare departments operate across four prisons in the BSGW cluster each of which require a bespoke service responding to the prisoner and prison needs:

• HMP Ashfield – Cat C – Population = 412
• HMP Bristol – Cat B – Population = 638
• HMP Erlestoke – Cat C – Population = 494
• HMP Leyhill – Cat D (Open) – Population = 460

Oxleas are the lead provider across 10 South West prisons and operate in Devon and Dorset in addition to the above.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England.

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