Overview
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 also 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 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.
Responsibilities
* 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‑ordinate 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.
* 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 wellbeing.
* Facilitate the use of evidence‑based practice to ensure that 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.
Education & Qualifications (Essential)
* Registered Nurse Adult.
* Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines.
Education & Qualifications (Desirable)
* Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development.
Attitudes, Aptitudes & Personal Characteristics (Essential)
* 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
* 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)
* 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: 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.
Skills and Knowledge (Desirable)
* Wound care management.
* Clinical triage.
* Ear care.
* Venepuncture.
* Chronic Disease Management.
* Smoking cessation.
* Cervical screening.
Previous Experience (Essential)
* Previous experience of working in Primary Care services either as a Band 5 Nurse or a Student Nurse.
Benefits
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. You will have access to 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 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, 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. You will be supported in transition from Student nurse to newly qualified nurse with an induction programme, 12‑month preceptorship programme, 12‑month Band 5 Development programme, rotational programme (6 months in 2‑3 different health and justice settings), career coaching, clinical supervision, newly qualified nurse forums, NHS Leadership Academy leadership course and bespoke health and justice clinical competencies.
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