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 disability and 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 Band 5 Primary Care Staff Nurse to join our forward‑thinking, friendly, and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP/YOI Bronzefield.
By joining our Prisons Health Care Team, you will not only look after the healthcare needs of patients residing in secure environments but will also have a real impact on promoting health and well‑being. Our healthcare services work to a 7‑day week working model, ensuring patients’ healthcare is always managed and maintained to the highest standards.
Our motto is “Caring NOT Judging”; 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 health status and encourage social inclusion.
We offer a great range of career pathways to support our nurses through their journey, which includes a comprehensive list of opportunities detailed under the “Working for your organisation” tab.
Main duties of the job
* Provide an accessible individual patient assessment, treatment and referral service
* Monitor the ongoing health status of patients and address identified issues
* Work with patients to influence the impact on their health arising from current lifestyle patterns/choices
* Implement effective discharge plans for transfer or release locations
* Co‑coordinate multi‑disciplinary clinical practice to provide focused integrated care and treatment programmes/packages
* Work collaboratively with staff of other disciplines (e.g., officers and governors) to provide integrated and coordinated treatment plans
Working for our organization
Along with fully established benefits such as monthly supervision, annual personal development plans/appraisals, a preceptorship programme, support & guidance with revalidation, Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies.
We also offer access to a full range of internal and external training opportunities for 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, enabling significant difference in the lives of adults, children and young people who often experience health inequalities.
We have developed a clinical leadership career pathway to ensure nurses feel supported, valued, and developed via lifelong learning programmes.
To support your transition from student nurse to newly qualified nurse, we provide:
* Induction programme
* 12‑month preceptorship programme
* 12‑month Band 5 Development programme
* Rotational programme – spend 6 months in 2‑3 different health and justice settings to develop knowledge and skills
* Career coaching
* Clinical supervision
* Newly qualified nurse forums
* NHS Leadership Academy leadership course
* Bespoke health and justice clinical competencies
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
* Triage patient needs in accordance with specific standard operating procedures and national policy (e.g., NICE guidance)
* Assess, plan and implement care for patients within each care/treatment pathway to promote well‑being
* Facilitate the use of evidence‑based practice to ensure clinical care is both effective and appropriate
* Carry out general nursing duties
* Maintain contemporaneous records
* Support and make a professional contribution to the development of integrated healthcare
* Act as a preceptor/mentor in accordance with experience
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria:
* Registered Nurse Adult
* Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
Desirable criteria:
* Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics
Essential criteria:
* Caring for the patients who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
* Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
* Able and willing to work with patients, family and carers, and staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
* Able and willing to work in partnership with patients, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals
Other
Essential criteria:
* The post holder must have the ability to understand and implement the equal opportunities policy at a level appropriate to the job
* Ability to promote anti‑discriminatory and anti‑racist practices
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria:
* Able to communicate with the multi‑disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively
* Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten
* Able to maintain patient records
* Care planning: able to assess patients, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
* Empowering and working in partnership
* Safeguarding and advocacy
* Understanding how the Mental Health Act impacts on their work and the patients they are working with
* Understanding their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
* Infection control
* Medicines management and administration
* Communicating effectively
* Mentor, teach and support others in the team
* Supervise others in the team
* Contribute to a positive culture in the team, enabling it to be inclusive
Desirable criteria:
* Wound care management
* Clinical triage
* Ear care
* Venepuncture
* Chronic Disease Management
* Smoking cessation
* Cervical screening
Previous experience
Essential criteria:
* Previous experience of working in Primary Care services either as a Band 5 Nurse or a Student Nurse
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