Job overview
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner and works in partnership to provide responsive and dependable primary care, mental health, intellectual disabilityand substance misuse services to the diverse and culturally rich communities we serve.
In our quest to deliver patient-focused quality care we are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic a Band 5 Primary Care Staff Nurseto join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justiceteam at HMP/YOI Bronzefield.
By joining our Prisons Health Care Team, you will not only look after the healthcare needs of our patients residing in secure environments, but who also can have a real impact on promoting health and well-being.Our healthcare services work to a 7-day week working model, to ensure our patient's healthcare is always managed and maintained to the highest of standards.
Our motto is “Caring NOT Judging” so by working in partnership with the criminal justice system and other agencies, we provide responsive, dependable and high-quality primary care and mental health services to those who may have offended and those at risk of offending in the communities we serve, to improve their health status and to encourage social inclusion.
We offer a great range of career pathways to support our nurses through their journey, see the list of endless opportunities under the working for your organisation tab.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide an accessible individual patient assessment, treatment and referral service
2. Monitor the ongoing health status of patients and address identified issues
3. Work with patients to influence the impact on their health arising from current lifestyle patterns/choices
4. Implement effective discharge plans for transfer or release locations
5. Co-ordinate multi-disciplinary clinical practice to provide focused integrated care and treatment programmes/packages.
6. Work collaboratively with staff of other disciplines e.g. officers and governors to provide integrated and coordinated treatment plans.
Working for our organisation
Along with the fully established benefits such as Monthly supervision; Annual personal development plans/appraisals; Preceptorship Programme; Support & guidance with Revalidation; Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies.
We are also able to offer access to a full range of internal and external training opportunities for our Band 5 and newly qualified Band 5 roles across our services.
Our Health and Justice healthcare services present unique and diverse learning, development, and leadership opportunities for nurses, where you will have the potential to make a significant difference to the lives of adults, children and young people who often experience a wide range of health inequalities.
We have developed a clinical leadership career pathway to ensure you feel supported, valued, and developed via our career pathway programme that facilitates lifelong learning.
We will support you in your transition from Student nurse to newly qualified nurse to ensure you develop your clinical and leadership skills this includes:
7. Induction programme
8. 12-month preceptorship programme
9. 12-month Band 5 Development programme
10. Rotational programme – where you can spend 6 months in 2-3 different health and justice settings to develop your knowledge and skills
11. Career coaching
12. Clinical supervision
13. Newly qualified nurse forums
14. NHS Leadership Academy leadership course
15. Bespoke health and justice clinical competencies
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see full job description and personal specification for full list of responsibilities':
16. Triage patient needs in accordance with specific standard operating procedures and national policy e.g. NICE guidance
17. Assess, plan and implement care for patients within each care/treatment pathway in order to promote wellbeing
18. Facilitate the use of evidence based practice to ensure that clinical care is both effective and appropriate
19. Carry out general nursing duties
20. Maintain contemporaneous records
21. Support and make a professional contribution to the development of integrated healthcare
22. Act as a preceptor/mentor in accordance with experience
Vaccination
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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