ADHD Nurse Prescriber (Devon Cluster) | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 pro-rata p.a. |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 03 May 2024 |
| Location: | Exeter, EX4 4EX |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6167571/277-6120760-EXET-A |
Summary
Are you ready tounlockyour potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want toescapeyour current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time tobreakintooffender 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 motivatedADHD Nurse Prescriberto join our friendly teams across our Devon Cluster.
This role will involve working across 3 sites, HMP's Channings Wood, Dartmoor and Exeter. Base location will be discussed, travel expenses can be claimed through our employee expense system.
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.
As part of our Healthcare team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
The role will involve undertaking ADHD assessments for adult offenders within HMPPS across Devon. You will be responsible for making diagnoses, providing medication treatment and reviews where indicated, and psycho-social ADHD interventions (groups for people diagnosed with ADHD).
There is also an expectation to advise and support colleagues; and to ensure the high-quality delivery of our Neuro Diversity and ADHD pathways, leading to positive outcomes for the client.
The post holder will work very closely with the Consultant Psychiatrists based across the Devon prisons as well as other members of the multi- disciplinary team (MDT).
This is a newly created post to increase our Neurodiversity pathway. We are seeking a forward thinking Nurse who will play a key part in driving our service forward.
Independent Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) qualification is essential.
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
• Assess adults for ADHD, considering differential and/or co-occurring conditions to make diagnostic decisions.
• Use clinical judgement and experience to make treatment decisions using highly developed skills and knowledge regarding management of adults with ADHD.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for diagnostic decision making within competence, with supervision from Psychiatrists.
• Following national guidance and the policies, use independent prescribing skills and knowledge to complete health assessments, initiate medication and titrate dosage.
• Formulate and implement plans for the treatment and medication management of clients using NICE guidance in line with national/local formularies.
• Ensure that the clients’ interests are fully considered within the context of their treatment plan, ensuring that all parties actively participate in ethical, shared decision making, utilising a multidisciplinary team approach.
• Provide regular medication reviews for adults for whom you have prescribed medication for ADHD.
• Ensure physical observations of patients as part of their medication review have been received in advance of appointments (height, weight, blood pressure and pulse).
• Complete risk assessments and review safeguarding needs alongside treatment strategies during ongoing patient care.
• Ensure accurate and timely client records are kept on the clinical platform. Reports should be written professionally and completed within expected timeframes.
• Make recommendations on any interventions required (as appropriate) to the client within the report.
• Work closely with the senior leadership team on the further development of the ADHD pathways.
• Provide consultation and training to other members of staff to develop skills in this area of expertise.
• Maintain registration with the appropriate governing body (NMC/GMC/HCPC).
• Access regular clinical supervision, management supervision, and multi-disciplinary team meetings/case discussions.
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.
Address History:
5 years address history will be needed.
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.
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).
This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Apr 2024
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