Emergency Nurse Practitioner (ENP) / Paramedic

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.

As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Paramedic to join our friendly team at HMP Bristol.

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

Step into a role that promises unparalleled challenges, professional growth, and the chance to significantly impact the lives of those within the criminal justice system. As a Band 6Paramedic at HMP Bristol, you will become integral to a dedicated healthcare team committed to delivering exceptional care in a unique and dynamic environment., 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