Emergency Nurse Practitioner (ENP)/Paramedic

Band 6 Main area: Offender Healthcare

Grade: Band 6

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 281-VERNE

Site: HMP The Verne

Town: Portland

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 29/04/:59

Job overview 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.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Paramedic to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.

Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison, 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.

This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post

Main duties of the job In this role, you will conduct comprehensive health assessments, develop care plans, and provide routine healthcare services. Your efforts will ensure the physical and mental well-being of the prison population, addressing a wide range of health issues and promoting overall wellness. You will be the frontline responder to medical emergencies within the prison. Utilising your advanced skills, you will swiftly and effectively stabilise, treat, and manage acute incidents, providing immediate and appropriate care in critical situations. Working alongside mental health professionals, you will identify, assess, and manage individuals in crisis.

Your role will also involve educating the prison population on health-related issues, promoting healthy lifestyles, and reducing health inequalities.

Adapting your clinical practice to meet the unique challenges of working in a secure setting is essential. You will maintain high standards of care while ensuring that safety and security protocols are strictly followed, balancing the demands of healthcare delivery with the requirements of a custodial environment.

Working as a Paramedic at HMP The Verne is not just a job; it's an opportunity to improve lives. This role will provide a stimulating and varied workload, professional development opportunities, and the profound satisfaction of making a difference where it is needed most.

Working for our organisation 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 purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

Detailed job description and main responsibilities Management responsibilities

• To be responsible for primary care staff rotas, taking into account efficient use of resources, staff capacity and changing service needs.
• Responsible for staff supervision and annual appraisal.
• To lead 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.
• Act as an Authorised Signatory as well as being responsible for the booking of temporary staffing.

Leadership

• 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 lead in the professional clinical supervision programme, ensuring all junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal.
• Lead in the identification of all aspects of specific service, training and personal development needs.

Clinical

• As an Oxleas AECP / Paramedic you will ensure that care is always delivered in collaboration with the key people involved and will provide support and information to the people in your care and to their carers where appropriate.
• You will be directly involved in handling and administering prescribed medication and controlled drugs and involved in procedures where you are expected to be appropriately trained and competent (e.g., suturing and wound care).
• You will monitor physiological observations by undertaking a full assessment using a structured and prioritized approach and the recognition of the acutely ill patient (e.g., ABCDE approach, ECG recognition, pathways for CVA and the diagnosis and referral of a range of cardiac conditions).
• You will complete all patient documentation associated with an episode of patient using Systemone clinical record.
• The post holder will exercise a degree of personal and professional autonomy, make complex and critical judgments under the management of the Primary Care Clinical Lead and have decision-making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role.

Research

• To support and undertake research, clinical audit and evaluate the service 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 participate in all monitoring systems to promote the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.

Communication

• You will be committed to establishing good working relationships with other professionals and partner organisations involved in providing care and will work closely with the multidisciplinary team, providing excellent written and verbal feedback on the people in your care's progress.
• You will be a competent and skilled communicator, listening and being involved in shared decision making and will appreciate the cultural diversity of your client group and the stigma that can be related to health issues.
• This role requires a Registered Nurse / Paramedic to work as part of a team delivering care to patients within the prison.
• You will communicate, report and document the patients' history, condition and treatment to a full range of medical staff including colleagues, nurses and doctors as appropriate.
• You will be expected to liaise with local hospital wards where prisoners are admitted as well as undertaking hospital ward visits to support discharge and continuity of care within the prison.

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 photographic ID
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.

Person specification Qualifications

• Recognised higher education qualification (e.g., Bachelor's Degree in Nursing / Paramedic Science, Paramedic Studies or Paramedic Practice or have the BTECH Level 4 Paramedic qualification).
• NMC or HCPC Registration.

Experience

• In-depth knowledge of Emergency nurse / paramedic-led care and the treatments/interventions and their application in a prison environment.
• Emotionally resilient and able to deal with trauma injuries.
• Understanding and/or experience of secure environments (prisons or forensic services).

Skills

• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Understanding of clinical audit and governance.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability . click apply for full job details