Physical Health Nurse - Forensic Services
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford
Physical Health Nurse - Forensic Services
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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 26 Jun | Get your application in now before you're too late!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: ccb8695cd3124c0f8abc05b1b6085790
Full Job Description
Are you a registered nurse looking for a role within Forensic Services where you can make a real difference to the lives of our patients? We are recruiting for a Physical Health Nurse to join our team and champion physical healthcare, health promotion, and illness prevention across our forensic services. You'll play a vital role in educating staff, students, and patients, helping to optimise service users' ability to take charge of their own physical wellbeing. You'll be a visible, approachable, and expert presence-working directly in clinical settings, supporting staff, and collaborating within a dynamic multidisciplinary team. You'll ensure physical health needs are thoroughly assessed and addressed, promoting a proactive approach to care. This role is based at our Littlemore Mental Health Centre in Oxford and covers all 10 wards within our low secure and medium secure forensic units across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Working closely with ward-based health leads, our community team, and wider services like physiotherapy, you'll help shape a joined-up, patient-centred approach to physical health. If this sounds like your next career move, we would love to hear from you! This role includes an RSU allowance of £1,446 per annum on top of your salary, + Provide clinical judgment, expertise and advice on all aspects of physical health nursing, health promotion and illness prevention to staff, students and/or patients/clients. + Optimise the service users' potential to participate in promoting and maintaining their own good physical health. + Support progress on the implementation and embedding of key areas of work aimed at addressing health inequalities for our patients and identifying deteriorating patients, such as NEWS2, physical health monitoring, care planning and wellbeing clinics. + Support the Head of Nursing and their team in delivering the Trusts' physical health strategy and National drivers aligned with the NHS Long Term Plan, and participate in clinical audit in relation to physical health. Contribute to research as required. Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties, We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the "supporting statement" element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview. + All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale. + Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests. + We're advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life. + Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role. + We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve. + We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values - safe, caring and excellent. + We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. + Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people. We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you're excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you. We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team" Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent" We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
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