Job summary
Looking for a new direction, have just or soon be qualifying this could be the right role for you to kick off 2024! Prison nursing is both challenging & rewarding, where no two days are the same!
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 Primary Care Staff Nurses to join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP Coldingley. 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 have the opportunity to 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 managed and maintained to the highest of standards at all times.
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.
Main duties of the job
Staff working within Primary Care will:
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 officers and governors to provide integrated and coordinated treatment plans.
About us
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust offers its staff ongoing career progression through:
7. Monthly supervision
8. Annual personal development plans/appraisals
9. Access to exciting internal and external training opportunities.
Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities such as but not limited to:
10. Preceptorship Programme
11. Support and guidance with Revalidation
12. Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies
Excellent staff benefits, our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include:
13. Health and wellbeing services
14. Season ticket loans
15. Cycle to work scheme
16. Relocation package
The trust alsovalues its staff and you are entitled to become a member of MyTrustBenefits. MyTrustBenefits is an online portal for all CNWL staff, as well as their family and friends. It offers over 1400 discounts at hundreds of retailers nationwide. Save money on your weekly food shops, toiletries, cosmetics, cinema, meals out, holidays, travel and entertainment. You can also access free online courses on a variety of topics, professional and personal, ranging from business management, languages, law and teaching.
All of our sites in Surrey offer free use of the onsite leisure facilities and free parking for staff.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and specification for full list of responsibilities:
17. Triage patient needs in accordance with specific standard operating procedures and national policy NICE guidance
18. Assess, plan and implement care for patients within each care/treatment pathway in order to promote wellbeing
19. Facilitate the use of evidence based practice to ensure that clinical care is both effective and appropriate
20. Carry out general nursing duties
21. Maintain contemporaneous records
22. Support and make a professional contribution to the development of integrated healthcare
23. Act as a preceptor/mentor in accordance with experience.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
24. Registered Nurse Adult
25. Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
Desirable
26. Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
Previous experience
Essential
27. Previous experience of working in Primary Care services either as a Band 5 Nurse or a Student Nurse
Skills and knowledge
Essential
28. Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively.
29. Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten
30. Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
31. Able to maintain electronic patient records
32. Care planning: able to assess patients, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
33. Empowering and working in partnership
34. Safeguarding and advocacy
35. Understanding how the Mental Health Act impacts on their work and the patients they are working with
36. Understanding their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
37. Infection control
38. Medicines management and administration
39. Communicating effectively
40. Mentor, teach and support others in the team
41. Supervise others in the team
42. Contribute to a positive culture in the team, enabling it to be inclusive
Desirable
43. oWound care management oClinical triage oEar care oVenepuncture oChronic Disease Management oSmoking cessation oCervical screening
Attitudes/aptitudes/personal c
Essential
44. Caring
45. Respectful to others
46. Empowers
47. Partnership