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 motivated Learning Disability Nurse to join our friendly team at HMP Leyhill.
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 Primary Care 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.
* Important Sponsorship Information for this post: Due to service budget restrictions we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post*
As Learning Disability Nurse at HMP Ashfield, you will be providing visible, high calibre nursing care and support to adults with learning disabilities and additional complex needs. You will be joining an established nursing team and contribute to the development of good clinical practice, promoting the clinical and professional development of staff to ensure they provide holistic and evidence-based care.
You will participate in the assessment and preparation of service users for the first intake and support other nurses to undertake this. You will actively participate in the adoption of a person-centred holistic approach to service users’ assessment and care planning using contemporary models of care and evidence based challenging behaviour services. You will involve service users with mild/moderate learning disabilities in these processes.
You will be required to demonstrate understanding and the importance of developments in relation to challenging behaviour and people with learning disabilities as well as the important of risk assessment and management of risk with particular reference to people with mild to severe learning disabilities and challenging behaviour.
You will be actively involved in clinical supervision and staff support group facilitation around challenging behaviour practice and interventions.
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
Participate in the assessment and preparation of service users for the first intake and support other nurses to undertake this task.
Promote and develop communication systems which enable staff to work in a person centred way with service users.
Ensure the provision of contemporary evidence based challenging behaviour services
Actively participate in the adoption of a person-centred holistic approach to service user’s assessment and care planning using contemporary models of care. To involve service users with mild/moderate learning disabilities in these processes.
Demonstrate evidence based guidance on person centred/holistic assessment, care planning, intervention and evaluation for adults with severe challenging behaviour,
Ensure the principles of Valuing People and Transforming Care are embedded in practice.
Ensuring Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults policy is understood and adhered to and that issues are reported appropriately.
Demonstrate understanding the importance of developments/contemporary practice issues in relation to challenging behaviour and people learning disabilities.
Demonstrate understanding and the importance of risk assessment and management of risk with particular reference to people with mild to severe learning disabilities and challenging behaviour.
Actively involved in clinical supervision and staff support group facilitation around challenging behaviour practice and interventions.
Undertake direct specialist assessment/therapeutic work with individuals or groups, in liaison with the MDT and encourage others to do so.
Lead in co-ordinating and/or take part in the education of a range of specialist training initiatives about challenging behaviour and people with mild to moderate learning disabilities
Contribute to Clinical Governance and lead on specific projects.
Work to enhance the standards of nursing practice across the Service.
Participate in local audit and trust wide audits.
Work closely with Dorset prisons MDT, other Oxleas Services and internal/external colleagues to enhance service
Promote equality and diversity initiatives
Develop and maintain effective relationships with key partners, within the forensic and prisons directorate, Local Authority, local Universities, The Home Office, Police, the voluntary sector, and non-statutory agencies.
Provide cover for the clinical charge nurses as required
The post holder will be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway.
The post holder will be required to undertake training to maximise uptake of screening, health promotion and prevention activity, including vaccinations.

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