Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Task and Responsibilities

•Responding to the needs of patients in an honest, non-judgemental, and open manner, which respects the rights of individuals and groups

•Actively engaging with patients in the provision of holistic, needs-led care which considers the physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of individuals and groups

•Delivery of health promotion activities and programmes (including patient self-help programmes) in support of a registered healthcare professional

•Assisting patients to attain optimal physical health and assisting with physical procedures in alongside a registered healthcare professional •Contributing appropriately to risk assessment and individualised care planning.

Clinical

To work as directed by a registered nurse, providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan. Typical duties include: 

-Carrying out ECG’s

-Phlebotomy -Basic wound care -NEWS2

-Assess patients using NEWS2

 -Blood glucose monitoring

-Taking patients weight and other measurements

•Assisting in emergency call outs and instigating emergency procedures when appropriate

•Being second checker on medication rounds

 •Ordering and maintaining stock

•Ensuring treatment rooms are clean, tidy and well stocked •Appropriate escalation to registered healthcare professionals

•Using appropriate templates in SystmOne to document contemporaneously and accurately

•Maintaining patient confidentiality and security

•Adhering to all organisational and prison policies, procedures, and guidelines

•Ensuring good working relationships with patients, carers, relatives, other professionals and prison and healthcare staff

•Developing an understanding of and demonstrating use of clinical supervision to reflect upon and modify practice

Custodial Responsibilities

•Assume personal responsibility for the security of issued keys.

•Understand and comply with prison orders, procedures, and instructions in your area of work. 

•Comply with all security requirements.

•Respond to any situation or circumstance that might indicate a threat to security of the establishment or to the safety of an individual, completing Incident, Security, Injury, or other reports as appropriate.

•Report breaches of order and discipline including reporting and recording untoward incidents according to local protocol. 

•Contribute to effective risk assessment and management procedures.

Communication

•Routinely communicate effectively with patients and working to overcome barriers to understanding (ie patients with physical or mental health conditions or learning disabilities)

•Develop and maintain inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working with all relevant agencies and organisations as directed.

•Develop and maintain close working partnerships with HMPS, Prison Governors and Heads of Prison Services, Forensic Services, Probation Services, Crown Prosecution Service, Police, and all other non-statutory agencies that are integral to prisoner/patient care and offender management.

•Undertake other duties agreed in conjunction with registered staff, Integrated Primary Healthcare Services.