Bank Subs Misuse Nurse BD6 Kent Prisons | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	17 Mehefin 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£41,405 pa pro-rata, incl RRP
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	17 Gorffennaf 2025
Lleoliad:	Kent, ME12 4AX
Cwmni:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7285472/277-BkNurseSUBMIS

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Bank Substance Misuse Nurse Band 6


Thank you for taking an interest in ourSubstance Misuse Service Bank Nurse position.We hope that you find this overview useful and look forward to receiving your application.





Our healthcare departments operate across seven prisons each of which require a bespoke service responding to the prisoner and prison needs:



Prison

Location

Category

Population

Healthcare

HMP Elmley



Isle of Sheppey

‘B’ Remand

1,200 (male)

24/7

Inc. Inpatient Unit

HMP Swaleside

‘B’ High Security

1,200 (male)

HMP Standford Hill

‘D’ Open

500 (male)

Standard

HMP Rochester/ HMP Cookham Wood

Rochester

‘C’

650 (male)

24/7

HMP Maidstone

Maidstone

‘C’

500 (male)

24/7

HMP E Sutton Park

‘D’ Open

100 (female)

Standard




The seven prisons are located across three estates, Isle of Sheppey, Rochester and Maidstone, with the Isle of Sheppey prisons being with a few minutes’ walk from each other and East Sutton Park approximately 7 miles from Maidstone.

Please note this is an opportunity to join the Trust Bank and work on an as and when required basis


We are looking for dedicatedSubstance Misuse Service Nurses to cover bank shiftsproviding specialised assessment and clinical care to prisoners with identified substance misuse / dependency and related physical health issues in prison. Working closely with wider healthcare and prison departments to manage immediate risks and develop person centred collaboratively agreed recovery plan objectives.



We are looking for nurses with experience of substance misuse and who can pick night shifts and can do any days not just weekends.











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
Key Task and Responsibilities

To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level; to include

· Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidence-based interventions

· Care Planning and risk assessing

· One-to-one and group-work facilitation

· managing a mixed and challenging caseload

· providing appropriate, pragmatic harm minimisation advice to patients

· providing drug, alcohol and holistic health education to patients and colleagues


Leadership• Provide supervision to junior staff and to receive supervision as directed (line management and clinical).
• To develop and take on a specialist lead role within the Integrated Substance Misuse Service as appropriate and provide peer support and training in this area.
• To contribute towards support, advice, consultation, and training for other prison departments.
• Provide supervision, mentorship & leadership for junior staff.


Clinical• To complete comprehensive clinical assessment, developing immediate risk management and safety planning and instigate recovery planning for all prisoners arriving in HMP Bristol who have an identified substance misuse need/dependency issue.
• Through assessment, identify and escalate safeguarding concerns relating to patients and their families at the point of arrival into HMPPS.
• Assist in the clinical oversight of new arrivals over the first five days in prison.
• Correctly identify indicators of withdrawal or sedation and request appropriate clinical interventions to support patients including Opiate Replacement Therapy, alcohol detoxification and benzodiazepine detoxification.
• Provide relevant harm minimisation and health education advice for patients with alcohol and substance use issues, including education in the administration of Naloxone.
• Provide a range of evidenced-based specialised clinical care in the treatment of alcohol and substance dependency, and signposting for co-morbid conditions associated with and compounding to, patients’ substance and/or alcohol use.
• Ensure that patients’ needs are addressed effectively and in a timely manner, ensuring equivalence of care or better that one would expect from accessing services in the community.
• Participate in and co-ordinate joint and collaborative care planning for patients with additional complexities, including developing appropriate signposting to specialised services and release planning.
• To perform robust assessment, screening, and interventions to offenders with a learning disability
• To participate in resource centre services as directed, delivering specialist drug, alcohol and holistic healthcare activities under the direction of the clinical lead.
• To work in a psychologically minded way with prisoners in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.
• Please see JD&PS


This advert closes on Tuesday 1 Jul 2025

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