Qualified Nurse Associate - Early Days in Custody team (EDiC) | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	18 Medi 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£29,485 - £32,162 pa inc
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	18 Hydref 2025
Lleoliad:	Kent, ME12 4DZ
Cwmni:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7469910/277-7469910-ELM

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We are currently recruiting two full time Nursing Associates to join the Early Days in Custody team at HMP Elmley.

Within this role you will contribute to the health and wellbeing of patients and service users across all health and care settings. As a Nursing Associate you will deliver high quality, personalised, safe, compassionate care in the best interest of people. You will be equipped with the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and behaviours required across the fields of nursing, providing holistic care and support for patients.

You will work independently under the leadership of registered nurses, working within the sphere of nursing. You will recognise and work within the limits of your competence. You will work to a nationally recognised code of conduct and be registered with Nursing and Midwifery Council. (NMC).

**Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post**

Key Task and Responsibilities

• To work as directed by a registered nurse.

• To provide physical care to patients in accordance with their care plan.

• To support the delivery of national screening programmes.

• To support and deliver clinics as instructed within the establishment’s clinic timetable.

• Supporting the holistic care needs of all prisoners in the first seven days of custody.

• Working within the national guidelines - physical health of people in prison NICE guideline reference number: NG57

• Be up to date with emergency response procedures.

• Carry a radio and respond to medical emergencies as part of the primary care team.

• Participate and contribute to risk assessments and ACCT reviews.

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

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Main Duties and Responsibilities

Promoting Health and Preventing ill Health

•Supporting people to improve and maintain their mental, physical, behavioural health and wellbeing.

•Active involvement in the prevention of and protection against disease and ill health.

•Engage in public health, community development, and in the reduction of health inequalities.

•Implementing the principles of ‘recovery’: encouraging and supporting patients/service users to engage with healthy lifestyles, facilitating psychosocial activities and other activities of their interest. Where appropriate contributing to psychological interventions under the guidance of a registered professional.

•Advocating for patients/service users’ needs and rights within Trust policy.

•Encouraging and empowering individuals to have an optimum level of responsibility for their individual programme of care.

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 Thursday 2 Oct 2025

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