Job summary
Have you ever thought that working within a prison could be the next step that you're looking for?
If you have answered yes to these questions then Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust can offer you the opportunity to use all of your clinical and interpersonal skills, an opportunity to develop new skills and work with a unique population group who need your clinical input. We invite you to join our Surrey Prisons Bank Health Care Team, a team who not only look after the healthcare needs of the prisoners, but who also have the opportunity to have a real impact on promoting health and well-being.
Working in partnership with the criminal justice system and other agencies, we provide responsive, dependable and high-quality primary care, mental health services to existing offenders (and those at risk of offending) in the communities we serve, to improve their health status and to encourage social inclusion.
In our quest to deliver patient-focused quality care we are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Bank Primary Care Staff Nurses (Band 5) to join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding healthcare team at HMP High Down & HMP Downview.
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, learning disabilities and substance misuse services to the diverse and culturally rich communities we serve.
Main duties of the job
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust values its bank 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 discountsat 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. As a bank worker you are entitled to the equivalent of 5.6 week annual holiday (maximum of 210 hours) during the holiday year pro-rata. Your holiday pay will be equivalent to 12.07 per cent of the hours you actually worked for the year. For example if you worked 200 hours in the year, you are entitled to 24.14 hours of annual leave. All of our sites in Surrey offer free use of the onsite leisure facilities and free parking for staff.
**Please note that any candidate wishing to apply for a role within our team will have to complete prison vetting clearance. This requires that you have been a resident in the UK for a minimum of 3 years**
About us
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 7,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond.We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing intiatives for staff.
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of deployment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users and we will therefore be seeking proof of vaccination or medical exemption during the recruitment process.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 PURPOSE:
Staff working within Primary Care will:
- Provide an accessible individual patient assessment, treatment and referral service
- Monitor the ongoing health status of patients and address identified issues
- Work with women 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 and integrated care and treatment programmes/packages.
Work collaboratively with staff of other disciplines e.g. officers and governors to provide integrated and coordinated treatments
Key Tasks:
- Triage patient needs in accordance with specific standard operating procedures
- Assess, plan and implement care for patients, within each care/treatment pathway, in order 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
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Clinical
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for patients using agreed Patient Group Directives or care pathways where appropriate.
- Plans and organises own workload without direct supervision in order to meet the requirements of the regime.
- Administer medication as prescribed, which may include oral, immunisations, intramuscular injections, insulin or nebulisers, and may be compounded by frequent unplanned interruptions such as other demanding patients, staff requests.
- Treat where possible (e.g. Hep B and Flu vaccines, minor ailments), referring on to other departments, clinical specialists or any other appropriate person as required.
- Ensure that those identified as requiring specialist input such as mental health or substance misuse, are referred in as timely a manner as possible and that relevant paperwork is completed and care pathway communicated to relevant staff, taking due account of the sensitivity of any information shared with non healthcare professionals who have to manage the women on the wings.
- For those identified as being at risk of self-harm, complete an ACCT document following a thorough assessment and communicate concerns to the appropriate member of staff.
- Provide appropriate and timely health promotion interventions to the women and advise staff accordingly.
- Participate in health promotion/harm minimisation clinics in specific disease related areas, ensuring that clinics run smoothly and meet national and local priorities and guidelines e.g.
- Smoking cessation
- Hepatitis B
- Sexual health
- Diabetes
- Asthma
- Coronary Heart Disease
- Will be required to take, collect or transport specimens such as blood, wound swabs or urine.
- Will be required to undertake wound dressings.
- Ensure that women being discharged back to the community have sufficient medication and a discharge letter summarising their care package for their GP.
- Carry out CPR when required and make best use of the emergency equipment such as the defibrillator.
- Attend case conferences as required for patients with challenging behaviour or those on ACCT documents.
- Undertake such other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time, which are consistent with the responsibilities and grade of the post. This may include providing cover for other units and/or teams.
- Administrative
- Participate in audits and provide statistical data as required to Offender Health, Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust or the prison, ensuring confidentiality and compliance with the Data Protection Act at all times.
- Generate, keep and maintain accurate contemporaneous records of activity and other data, giving due regard to local and national policies and professional standards for record keeping to facilitate effective communication systems within nursing and wider multi-disciplinary teams and other agencies.
- Complete prison specific paperwork such as security intelligence reports and incident report forms.
- Identify shortfalls in stock levels and/or failure of equipment and liaise with the appropriate manager to arrange replenishment or replacement.
- Education and Development
- Participate fully in the appraisal/personal development review process, identifying personal, professional and developmental needs.
- Actively work towards developing the necessary skills and competencies as defined by the Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF) Outline and provide evidence to support this.
- Complete all mandatory training.
- Support junior and peers, both formally and informally, in their development using encouragement, informal teaching and coaching activities.
- Work with your Senior Managers and wider multidisciplinary team to provide appropriate learning experiences for colleagues, students and others allocated to the team, to facilitate new skills and knowledge required to meet changing needs.
- Professional
- Work within the policies and guidelines set out by Health & Justice Services; CNWL NHS Foundation Trust; The Code of Conduct (NMC) and other relevant legislative frameworks using a reflective approach to practice.
- Exercise professional accountability at all times, particularly in the use of skills, knowledge and expertise in changing environments, unfamiliar circumstances and across professional boundaries, and be aware of statutory national requirements relevant to the job function e.g. the Health and Safety At Work Act.
- Participate in the overall planning, delivery and evaluation of healthcare services to young people through meetings and working groups, taking into consideration the broad framework of clinical governance.
- Work in close partnership with other members of the multidisciplinary team (statutory and voluntary) within the prison to ensure any managerial, professional practice and service developments are implemented effectively.
- Responsibilities Specific To The Prison Environment
- Comply with all relevant security procedures pertaining to keys, and the passing on of relevant information, which might pose a risk to staff, other patients or third parties.
- Be familiar with Prison Service Standards, Standing Orders, Circular Instructions, Notices to Staff, Prison Rules, Health and Safety and any other relevant material, in order to function as an informed practitioner within the Prison Setting.
- Working Conditions
- Staff may be exposed to distressing or emotional circumstances such is information regarding patients criminal behaviour or occasionally exposed to distressing episodes of self harm.
- Staff will be required to concentrate for periods of time where the work is unpredictable.
Vaccination: The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. In order to comply with our duty of care, we require our staff to have the COVID vaccine and we will ask for proof of vaccination during the recruitment process. Vaccination will be a condition of employment unless an exemption applies.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of deployment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users and we will therefore be seeking proof of vaccination or medical exemption during the recruitment process.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 PURPOSE:
Staff working within Primary Care will:
- Provide an accessible individual patient assessment, treatment and referral service
- Monitor the ongoing health status of patients and address identified issues
- Work with women 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 and integrated care and treatment programmes/packages.
Work collaboratively with staff of other disciplines e.g. officers and governors to provide integrated and coordinated treatments
Key Tasks:
- Triage patient needs in accordance with specific standard operating procedures
- Assess, plan and implement care for patients, within each care/treatment pathway, in order 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
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Clinical
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for patients using agreed Patient Group Directives or care pathways where appropriate.
- Plans and organises own workload without direct supervision in order to meet the requirements of the regime.
- Administer medication as prescribed, which may include oral, immunisations, intramuscular injections, insulin or nebulisers, and may be compounded by frequent unplanned interruptions such as other demanding patients, staff requests.
- Treat where possible (e.g. Hep B and Flu vaccines, minor ailments), referring on to other departments, clinical specialists or any other appropriate person as required.
- Ensure that those identified as requiring specialist input such as mental health or substance misuse, are referred in as timely a manner as possible and that relevant paperwork is completed and care pathway communicated to relevant staff, taking due account of the sensitivity of any information shared with non healthcare professionals who have to manage the women on the wings.
- For those identified as being at risk of self-harm, complete an ACCT document following a thorough assessment and communicate concerns to the appropriate member of staff.
- Provide appropriate and timely health promotion interventions to the women and advise staff accordingly.
- Participate in health promotion/harm minimisation clinics in specific disease related areas, ensuring that clinics run smoothly and meet national and local priorities and guidelines e.g.
- Smoking cessation
- Hepatitis B
- Sexual health
- Diabetes
- Asthma
- Coronary Heart Disease
- Will be required to take, collect or transport specimens such as blood, wound swabs or urine.
- Will be required to undertake wound dressings.
- Ensure that women being discharged back to the community have sufficient medication and a discharge letter summarising their care package for their GP.
- Carry out CPR when required and make best use of the emergency equipment such as the defibrillator.
- Attend case conferences as required for patients with challenging behaviour or those on ACCT documents.
- Undertake such other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time, which are consistent with the responsibilities and grade of the post. This may include providing cover for other units and/or teams.
- Administrative
- Participate in audits and provide statistical data as required to Offender Health, Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust or the prison, ensuring confidentiality and compliance with the Data Protection Act at all times.
- Generate, keep and maintain accurate contemporaneous records of activity and other data, giving due regard to local and national policies and professional standards for record keeping to facilitate effective communication systems within nursing and wider multi-disciplinary teams and other agencies.
- Complete prison specific paperwork such as security intelligence reports and incident report forms.
- Identify shortfalls in stock levels and/or failure of equipment and liaise with the appropriate manager to arrange replenishment or replacement.
- Education and Development
- Participate fully in the appraisal/personal development review process, identifying personal, professional and developmental needs.
- Actively work towards developing the necessary skills and competencies as defined by the Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF) Outline and provide evidence to support this.
- Complete all mandatory training.
- Support junior and peers, both formally and informally, in their development using encouragement, informal teaching and coaching activities.
- Work with your Senior Managers and wider multidisciplinary team to provide appropriate learning experiences for colleagues, students and others allocated to the team, to facilitate new skills and knowledge required to meet changing needs.
- Professional
- Work within the policies and guidelines set out by Health & Justice Services; CNWL NHS Foundation Trust; The Code of Conduct (NMC) and other relevant legislative frameworks using a reflective approach to practice.
- Exercise professional accountability at all times, particularly in the use of skills, knowledge and expertise in changing environments, unfamiliar circumstances and across professional boundaries, and be aware of statutory national requirements relevant to the job function e.g. the Health and Safety At Work Act.
- Participate in the overall planning, delivery and evaluation of healthcare services to young people through meetings and working groups, taking into consideration the broad framework of clinical governance.
- Work in close partnership with other members of the multidisciplinary team (statutory and voluntary) within the prison to ensure any managerial, professional practice and service developments are implemented effectively.
- Responsibilities Specific To The Prison Environment
- Comply with all relevant security procedures pertaining to keys, and the passing on of relevant information, which might pose a risk to staff, other patients or third parties.
- Be familiar with Prison Service Standards, Standing Orders, Circular Instructions, Notices to Staff, Prison Rules, Health and Safety and any other relevant material, in order to function as an informed practitioner within the Prison Setting.
- Working Conditions
- Staff may be exposed to distressing or emotional circumstances such is information regarding patients criminal behaviour or occasionally exposed to distressing episodes of self harm.
- Staff will be required to concentrate for periods of time where the work is unpredictable.
Vaccination: The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. In order to comply with our duty of care, we require our staff to have the COVID vaccine and we will ask for proof of vaccination during the recruitment process. Vaccination will be a condition of employment unless an exemption applies.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse Adult
- Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
Desirable
- Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
Previous experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working in Primary Care services either as a Band 5 Nurse or a Student Nurse
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. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports
- Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
- Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
- Able to maintain patient records and use Microsoft Word
- Able to demostrate a list of key Nursing Skills
- Working well within a team
Attitudes/aptitudes/personal c
Essential
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse Adult
- Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
Desirable
- Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
Previous experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working in Primary Care services either as a Band 5 Nurse or a Student Nurse
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. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports
- Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
- Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
- Able to maintain patient records and use Microsoft Word
- Able to demostrate a list of key Nursing Skills
- Working well within a team
Attitudes/aptitudes/personal c
Essential
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
