Job summary
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 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 can 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 of standards.
We offer a great range of career pathways to support our nurses through their journey, see the list of endless opportunities under the working for your organisation tab.
Why not see what our staff say about working within our award-winning teams: https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/health-and-justice/find-out-what-its-work-health-and-justice
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.
Key Tasks:
- 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.
About us
Along with the fully established benefits such as Monthly supervision; Annual personal development plans/appraisals; Preceptorship Programme; Support and guidance with Revalidation; Hidden Gem & annual award ceremonies.
We arealso able to offer access to a full range of internal & external training opportunities for our Band 5 & newly qualified Band 5 roles across our services.
Our Health and Justice healthcare services present unique & diverse learning, development, & leadership opportunities for nurses, where you will have the potential to make a significant difference to the lives of adults, children & 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 & developed via our career pathway programme that facilitates lifelong learning.
We will support you in your transition from Student nurse to newly qualified nurse to ensure you develop your clinical and leadership skills this includes:
Job description
Job responsibilities
See attached Job Description for full details.
Clinical;
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for patients using agreed Patient Group Directives or care pathways where appropriate.
- Plan and organise own workload without direct supervision in order to meet the requirements of the site 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 patients, staff requests.
- Treat where possible (e.g. Hep B, Covid 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 a timely a manner and that relevant paperwork is completed and care communicated to relevant staff, taking due account of the sensitivity of any information shared with non healthcare professionals who have to manage the patient on the wing.
- 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 patient 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
- Immunisations and vaccinations
- 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 patients 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 e.g. ACCT reviews, safety intervention meetings or complex case reviews.
- 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 teams internally or at other sites.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See attached Job Description for full details.
Clinical;
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for patients using agreed Patient Group Directives or care pathways where appropriate.
- Plan and organise own workload without direct supervision in order to meet the requirements of the site 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 patients, staff requests.
- Treat where possible (e.g. Hep B, Covid 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 a timely a manner and that relevant paperwork is completed and care communicated to relevant staff, taking due account of the sensitivity of any information shared with non healthcare professionals who have to manage the patient on the wing.
- 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 patient 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
- Immunisations and vaccinations
- 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 patients 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 e.g. ACCT reviews, safety intervention meetings or complex case reviews.
- 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 teams internally or at other sites.
Person Specification
Attitudes/aptitudes/personal characteristics
Essential
- Caring
- Respectful to 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
- Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
- Able to maintain electronic 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
- oWound care management oClinical triage oEar care oVenepuncture oChronic Disease Management oSmoking cessation oCervical screening
Previous experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working in Primary Care services either as a Band 5 Nurse or a Student Nurse
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse Adult
- Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
Desirable
- Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
Person Specification
Attitudes/aptitudes/personal characteristics
Essential
- Caring
- Respectful to 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
- Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
- Able to maintain electronic 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
- oWound care management oClinical triage oEar care oVenepuncture oChronic Disease Management oSmoking cessation oCervical screening
Previous experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working in Primary Care services either as a Band 5 Nurse or a Student Nurse
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse Adult
- Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
Desirable
- Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
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).
