Bank Nurse - HMP Humber

The Methodist Church in Britain; Everthorpe; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Access to NHS Pension Scheme

Wellbeing initiatives

Training and development opportunities

Career progression opportunities

Enhanced pay for bank holidays and ноч

Job summary

Spectrum Community Health CIC delivers a bank Registered General Nurse post at HMP Humber, focusing on nurse-led clinics, triage, and responses to medical emergencies within a secure healthcare environment.

You will work alongside primary care, mental health and substance misuse teams, with induction and training provided for prison healthcare roles.

Qualifications

• NMC registration as registered general nurse (RGN) with current practising status.
• Experience in complex environments with deteriorating patients.
• Knowledge of current healthcare issues and governance, audit, risk management.

Responsibilities

• Undertake comprehensive health assessments and clinical reviews.
• Deliver nurse-led clinics and evidence-based interventions.
• Triage and respond to urgent and unplanned healthcare needs.
• Respond to medical emergencies alongside colleagues.
• Administer medications, treatments and vaccinations safely.
• Provide wound assessment and ongoing wound management.
• Perform physical examinations, observations, diagnostics and investigations.
• Plan and evaluate individualised care programmes.
• Identify deterioration and escalate or refer appropriately.
• Make referrals to specialist and secondary care.

Skills

Clinical assessments

Emergency response

Triage

Wound care

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Communication skills

Education

NMC registration

Job description

A bank Registered General Nurse post at HMP Humber, delivered by Spectrum Community Health CIC for the prison's physical healthcare service. The work centres on nurse-led clinics, triage, medicines and treatments, wound care, physical health assessments and responding to medical emergencies. It is set in a secure healthcare environment, working alongside primary care, mental health and substance misuse teams, with local induction and training given to those new to prison healthcare. NMC registration is required.

What the job involves

• Undertaking comprehensive health assessments, clinical reviews and ongoing monitoring of patients
• Delivering nurse-led clinics and evidence-based interventions within scope of practice
• Undertaking triage and responding to urgent and unplanned healthcare needs
• Responding to medical emergencies across the establishment alongside healthcare colleagues
• Administering medications, treatments and vaccinations safely and in line with policy
• Providing wound assessment, treatment and ongoing wound management
• Undertaking physical examinations, observations, diagnostics and investigations within scope of practice
• Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating individualised programmes of care
• Identifying patient deterioration and escalating or referring appropriately
• Making referrals to specialist, secondary care and other healthcare services
• Supporting the management of long‑term conditions and promoting preventative care
• Providing health promotion, education and advice to patients

Registration & licences

• NMC registration

Experience

• Experience working in a complex environment managing deteriorating patients

Skills & knowledge

• Knowledge of current healthcare issues
• Knowledge of clinical governance, audit, risk management and the quality agenda
• Understanding and application of confidentiality
• Competent clinical practice, e.g. phlebotomy and ECG monitoring
• Experience working within a multidisciplinary healthcare team
• Excellent communication skills

Other

• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Ability to prioritise and organise own workload and that of other staff
• Ability to work in a challenging and diverse environment
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office keyboard skills
• Ability to maintain contemporaneous clinical records

Nice to have

• Experience of working within a Health & Justice environment
• Experience of health needs assessment and triage
• Experience working to Patient Group Directives
• Experience in general practice
• Experience in management of minor injuries
• Experience of using SystmOne, or willingness to train
• Extended scope of practice, e.g. wound closure, cannulation, managing minor illness and injury
• Experience of management of long‑term conditions

What’s offered

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Training and development opportunities
• Learning, professional development and career progression
• Enhanced pay for bank holidays and nights