Bank Learning Disability Nurse (RMN / RMNLD) - HMP Leyhill | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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 aLearning 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. · 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., 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
· Demonstrate understanding the importance of developments/contemporary practice issues in relation to challenging behaviour and people learning disabilities. · Demonstrate understanding and the importance of risk assessment and management of risk with particular reference to people with mild to severe learning disabilities and challenging behaviour. · Actively involved in clinical supervision and staff support group facilitation around challenging behaviour practice and interventions. · Undertake direct specialist assessment/therapeutic work with individuals or groups, in liaison with the MDT and encourage others to do so. · Lead in co-ordinating and/or take part in the education of a range of specialist training initiatives about challenging behaviour and people with mild to moderate learning disabilities. · Contribute to Clinical Governance and lead on specific projects. · Work to enhance the standards of nursing practice across the Service. · Participate in local audit and trust wide audits. · Work closely with prisons MDT, other Oxleas Services and internal/external colleagues to enhance service.
• Promote equality and diversity initiatives.
(Full JD can be downloaded in supporting documents section) 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.

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., Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

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.