Primary Care Staff Nurse- HMP Send

CNWL; London; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare team dedicated to providing exceptional patient care within a diverse and dynamic environment. As a Primary Care Staff Nurse at an innovative organization, you will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality healthcare services to individuals in secure settings. This position offers the opportunity to work collaboratively with a range of professionals, ensuring that patients receive the best possible care tailored to their needs. With a strong commitment to staff development and a supportive culture, this role is perfect for those looking to make a significant impact in the health and justice sector. Embrace a rewarding career where your contributions truly matter.

Benefits

Monthly Supervision

Preceptorship Programme

Support with Revalidation

Annual Award Ceremonies

Internal Training Opportunities

Free Use of Onsite Leisure Facilities

Free Parking for Staff

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with a focus on patient assessment and care planning.
• Evidence of continuous professional development is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual patient assessments and treatment plans.
• Monitor health status and implement effective discharge plans.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams for integrated care.

Skills

Patient Assessment

Care Planning

Communication

Clinical Record Keeping

Team Collaboration

Infection Control

Medicines Management

Mentoring

Education

Registered Nurse Adult

Continuous Professional Development

Tools

NHS Electronic Staff Records

Job description

Search here to find a new job, a new career, an opportunity
to up skill or to simply change your career direction.

Become part of our team.
We care for you as much as you care for others.

There’s a place for you at CNWL.

We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

Main area Health & Justice Services Grade NHS AFC Band 5 Contract Permanent: Health & Justice Services work to a 7 day working week Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Compressed hours

37.5 hours per week (Full time; part time and compressed hours available) Job ref 333-D-HJ-1718-A

Site HMP Send Town Ripley, Woking Salary £31,469 - £38,308 per annum inc. Fridge HCAS (pro rata if P/T) Salary period Yearly Closing 05/01/2025 23:59

Job overview

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust works in partnership to provide responsive & dependable primary care, mental health, intellectual disability & substance misuse services to the diverse & culturally rich communities we serve.

In our quest to deliver patient-focused quality care we are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative & enthusiastic Primary Care Staff Nurses to join our forward thinking, friendly & 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 & well-being. Our healthcare services work to a7 day week working model, to ensure our patient's healthcare is managed & 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 & other agencies, we provide responsive, dependable & high-quality primary care & mental health services to those who may have offended & those at risk of offending in the communities we serve, to improve their health status & to encourage social inclusion.

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.

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.

Working for our organisation

Our Health & 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.

Our standard benefits such as:

• Monthly supervision
• Preceptorship Programme
• Support & guidance with Revalidation
• Hidden Gem & annual award ceremonies
• A full range of internal & external training opportunities for our Band 5 & newly qualified Band 5 roles across our services.

We have also developed a clinical leadership career pathway to ensure you feel supported, valued & developed via our career pathway programme that facilitates lifelong learning.

Supporting you in your transition from Student nurse to newly qualified nurse to ensure you develop your clinical and leadership skills this includes:

• Induction programme
• 12-month Band 5 development programme
• Rotational programme – where you can spend 6 months in 2-3 different health and justice settings to develop your knowledge & skills
• Career coaching
• Newly qualified nurse forums
• NHS Leadership Academy leadership course
• Bespoke health & justice clinical competencies

Detailed job description and main 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
• 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

• Registered Nurse Adult
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
• Caring for the patients who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
• Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
• Able and willing to work with patients, family and carers, and staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
• Able and willing to work in partnership with patients, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals

Other

• 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.

Skills and knowledge

• 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 maintain 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
• Previous experience of working in Primary Care services either as a Band 5 Nurse or a Student Nurse

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 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.

Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.

If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Anelia Litova Job title Primary Care Service Lead Email address [e-mail] Additional information

HMP Send is situated within an acute rural area, candidates will require their own transport to access, there is no direct public transport links to and from the establishment.

We are a friendly team and encourage any prospective candidate to contact us with any questions and/or to book an informal visit.

You can also find more information on our services and the work we do within the Health & Justice Directorate please do take a look at our new website https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/health-and-justice

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.

All of our HMPPS sites offer free use of the onsite leisure facilities and free parking for staff.