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 Send. 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.
Interviews will take place at our next, Surrey Prisons Recruitment Day on Saturday 31st August 2024 at Double Tree by Hilton, Victoria Way, Woking, GU21 8EW. The day will consist of an introduction to Health & Justice Services in Surrey, Assessment, Interview & Recruitment checks. Successful candidates will by contacted by Friday 23rdAugust and invited along.
Main duties of the job
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 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.
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.
About us
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust offers its staff ongoing career progression through:
- Monthly supervision
- Annual personal development plans/appraisals
- Access to exciting internal and external training opportunities.
Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities such as but not limited to:
- Preceptorship Programme
- Support and guidance with Revalidation
- Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies
Excellent staff benefits, our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include:
- Health and wellbeing services
- Season ticket loans
- Cycle to work scheme
- 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.
HMP Send is situated within an acute rural area, candidates will require their own private transport to access, there is no direct public transport links to and from the establishment. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/HM+Prison+Send/@51.2734336,-0.4938699,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x4875d942aecb4c75:0xbafac6c14e683a4e!8m2!3d51.2734336!4d-0.491295!16s%2Fm%2F03c4fzs?entry=ttu
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see full job description and personal specification for full list of 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 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see full job description and personal specification for full list of 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 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.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
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
Attitudes
Essential
- Caring
- Respectful of others
- Empowers
- Partnership
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 which adhere to the CNWL policies
- Mentor, teach and support others in the team
- Supervise others in the team
- Contribute to the culture of the team and play a role in making it inclusive
- 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 and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
- Infection control
- Medicines management and administration
- Communicating effectively
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
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
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
Attitudes
Essential
- Caring
- Respectful of others
- Empowers
- Partnership
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 which adhere to the CNWL policies
- Mentor, teach and support others in the team
- Supervise others in the team
- Contribute to the culture of the team and play a role in making it inclusive
- 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 and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
- Infection control
- Medicines management and administration
- Communicating effectively
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
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).
