Staff Nurse - Inpatients

The Staff Nurse will deliver high quality, personalised, compassionate care to service users, providing a range of specialist interventions.

Ensure consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence, which comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of professional conduct.

Lead the delivery of comprehensive service user assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of patient-centred care in a range of settings.

Provide clinical supervision and support to junior colleagues, including students.

Assist and support the manager, as directed, to deliver a nurse-led integrated care service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.

Maintain a safe and therapeutic working environment, working collaboratively with the Multi-Disciplinary Team and maintaining accurate records.

Band 5 Nursing roles are only open to staff with a Nursing registration, obtained as a result of completing a qualification recognised by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

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.

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.

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:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

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 (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).

The post holder will work as part of a 24 hour multi-disciplinary in-patient team.

Exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgments, using decision-making skills, within the framework of established Trust policies, procedures, and the NMC Code of Conduct.

Deliver high-quality clinical care within the service. This will include acute and primary care, long-term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services, health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators and National Service Frameworks.

Demonstrate and provide robust clinical skills 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.

Support the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and promote research as appropriate.

Participate in managerial and professional clinical supervision, training, and annual appraisal and ensure that this becomes an integral part of team practice.

Ensure the implementation of effective and appropriate patient-centred care-planning tools, long-term condition registers and consistent delivery throughout the service.

Work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead, GPs, and other clinicians to meet and review service needs as required.

Be guided by standard operating procedures (SOPs), good practice, established precedents and understand what results or standards are to be achieved. Make comments on proposals for changes, regarding working practices, service improvements or patient feedback.

Work independently within organisational and professional guidelines and established professional parameters, working to the nationally recognised code of conduct and Standards of Proficiency for Nurses. Work as part of the multidisciplinary team.

Communicate effectively, with sensitivity and compassion, and manage relationships with people, making reasonable adjustments where necessary.

Ensure the privacy, dignity and safety of individuals is maintained at all times.Monitor the condition and health needs of people within their care on a continual basis in partnership with the members of the MDT team, families and carers.

Provide day-to-day supervision, mentorship, and support to junior colleagues, students, and unregistered staff, including the safe delegation of tasks in line with the NMC Code of Conduct.

Act as a role model by upholding and demonstrating the Trust values of We're Kind, We're Fair, We Listen, We Care in all interactions with service users, families, carers, and colleagues.

Plan and organise programmes of care. Plan and organise patient care activities, reprioritising as required to ensure the interests of the patients are met.

Communicate effectively with colleagues, providing clear verbal, digital or written information and instructions when sharing information, delegating, or handing over responsibility for care.

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:

Qualifications

Essential: - oProfessional NMC Qualification - Registered Nurse Professional, clinical knowledge acquired through training to degree level or equivalent.

Experience

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge