Job overview

Do you enjoy working in a clinically stimulating environment? Are you a motivated senior nurse (RMN) who is committed to providing the best possible health care in a challenging and busy environment? In this role, your clinical skills and experience will make a significant contribution to improving the clinical outcomes for a complex patient population. The clinical work is varied, and with a population that is changing almost daily, you need to be well organized, motivated and willing to work with high levels of complexity.

Main duties of the job

The Enhanced Support Service (ESS) at HMP Wandsworth is looking for a dynamic, high calibre, motivated and enthusiastic Senior Nurse Practitioner who is committed to and passionate about working in a prison environment.

The ESS is a multi-disciplinary team (nurse, psychologist and officer) who work with a small caseload of prisoners at HMP Wandsworth, whose behaviour is complex and challenging to the prison regime, and whose engagement with the normal regime of the prison is considered problematic.

The ESS is commissioned by the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway.

What does the work involve?

The ESS team work in pairs with prisoners for approximately 12 weeks, with the overarching aims being to improve their psychological wellbeing, and reduce the frequency of challenging behaviour. 

This can include helping the individual:

·     to understand their current situation,

·     to recognise how their behaviour affects themselves and those around them,

·     to identify personal goals and learn how to achieve these goals,

·     to learn to work collaboratively with staff and other prisoners.

If you are interested in this position and would like to find out further information, please contact Dr Emily Chitty.

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 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:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care