Primary Care Nurse

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts

Professional development

Employee assistance

Financial assistance

Job summary

Practice Plus Group’s Health in Justice team is seeking a Primary Care Nurse to join the HMP Lindholme prison in Doncaster. You will work in a nurse-led service within a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality adult care.

The role includes medication rounds, clinical assessments, nurse-led clinics and rapid emergency response. You’ll support professional development and collaborate with partners to improve care in a secure environment.

Qualifications

• Current professional qualification (NMC).
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development.
• Understanding of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
• Non-judgemental and compassionate approach.
• Excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver a nurse led service and prevent hospital admissions.
• Undertake medication rounds, dispense controlled medication, attend emergency response situations, assess patients, and undertake reception screening.
• Deliver nurse led clinics and provide evidence-based, personalised care with the team.
• Share knowledge and expertise to ensure safe care and continuous quality improvement.
• Inspire excellence by forging links with partners and stakeholders.

Skills

NMC Registered

CPD

Communication skills

Compassionate care

Teamwork

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Primary Care Nurse to join our Primary Care team at HMP Lindholme, a Category C male adult prison based in Doncaster, with operational capacity of around 900. Hours 37.5 hours - 11 hour shifts 7:30am - 7:30pm with at least one weekend a month.

As a Primary Care Nurse your responsibilities will vary. You will

• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver a nurse led service and prevent hospital admissions
• Undertake medication rounds, dispense controlled medication, attend emergency response situations, assess patients, and undertake reception screening
• Use your skills and knowledge to deliver nurse led clinics to your patient group whilst being supported by a multi-disciplinary team.
• Provide outstanding evidence based care to our patients, seeking out, listening to and acting on their feedback, so that care is personalised and informed by what matters to them.
• Deliver non-judgemental care that makes a real difference
• Inspire excellence by forging strong links with our partners and stakeholders
• Promote best practice, clinical supervision, evidence based care and continuous quality improvement, embedding a culture of shared learning.
• Share knowledge, skills and expertise to ensure safe care, building strong multi-disciplinary teams.

If you are interested in career development, we have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience, which include both internal and external options for development and learning.

It doesn't stop there we also offer:

• Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
• Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
• 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it

Registered nurse Adult

• Current professional qualification (NMC)
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development
• Understanding of the complexities of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
• A non-judgmental and compassionate approach
• Excellent communication skills

Although not essential ideal applicants would have experience in a hospital, community or prison environment.

Secure environments are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If youre looking for a role where you can develop your existing healthcare skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this could be the right opportunity for you.

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We're the UKs leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Practice Plus Groups purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:

• we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
• we act with integrity
• we embrace diversity
• we strive to do things better together

We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

This position is full time, youll receive an annual salary up to £41,659 per annum, depending on experience.

How will we support you?

• Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course Competency framework
• Regional and national career development opportunities
• Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
• Support from the wider team

Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.

This position is full time, youll receive an annual salary up to £41,659 per annum, depending on experience.