Bank Registered Nurse - Practice Nursing / Long-Term Conditions

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced and motivated Registered Nurse to join the Primary Care team at HMP Bristol on a bank basis. This is an opportunity for a nurse with a strong background in practice nursing, district nursing, long-term condition management, wound care and physical health to provide high-quality, evidence-based primary care to people in prison. The successful candidate will complement the existing nursing workforce and provide additional specialist primary care capacity, supporting the delivery of care that is equitable with that available in the community. Working within a multidisciplinary healthcare team, you will undertake assessment, treatment, monitoring and review of patients with a range of acute and long-term health conditions. You will be expected to work autonomously within your scope of practice, while recognising when escalation or multidisciplinary input is required., The post holder will:o Undertake comprehensive nursing assessments and develop, implement and evaluate individualised care plans.o Provide evidence-based management and review of patients with long-term conditions.o Undertake chronic disease reviews and contribute to the management of patients with complex physical health needs.o Support the management of conditions including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension, respiratory disease including asthma and COPD, epilepsy, chronic kidney disease and other long-term and complex physical health conditions.o Undertake assessment and management of wounds, including chronic wounds and leg ulcers.o Provide leg ulcer care, wound assessment, dressing selection and application, and compression therapy where appropriately trained and competent.o Recognise deterioration in patients with long-term conditions and initiate appropriate escalation and referral.o Undertake physical health observations, clinical assessment and appropriate investigations within scope of practice.o Provide health promotion, prevention and patient education.o Support screening and preventative healthcare programmes.o Contribute to medication monitoring and medicines optimisation within professional competence and local procedures.o Liaise effectively with GPs, advanced practitioners, pharmacy, specialist nurses and other members of the multidisciplinary team.

In order to work as a bank only worker you will need to have completed preceptorship training or obtained 6 months post qualification experience.

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:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
  
  Depending on experience Per annum pro-rata - dependent on experience and competencies