Registered Nurse - HMP Humber + £1500 Welcome Payment

NHS; Everthorpe; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated Registered General Nurse (RGN) for a role focusing on providing high-quality healthcare services to prisoners. Responsibilities include conducting health assessments, administering treatments, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Applicants must have NMC registration and strong clinical skills, with experience in a health & justice environment preferred. This position offers opportunities for training and development within a supportive team.

Benefits

Access to NHS Pension

Annual leave on your Birthday

Refer a friend scheme

Training and Development opportunities

Flexible Working

Access to Employee Assistance

Health and Wellbeing programmes

Up to 33 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse (RGN) with NMC registration required.
• Experience within a Health & Justice environment preferred.
• Knowledge of healthcare issues and clinical governance.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive physical health service to prisoners.
• Conduct health assessments and provide health interventions.
• Collaborate within multidisciplinary teams in a prison setting.

Skills

Ability to work autonomously

Organizational skills

Strong communication skills

Clinical practice competencies

Education

NMC Registration

Tools

SystmOne

Microsoft Office

Job description

Are you a dedicated RGN looking for a new challenge within a diverse, community setting? Do you want to combine your primary care, acute and emergency nursing skills all in one place and keep your NHS Pension? Working in secure healthcare will bring new challenges. The days are varied and there is a wide range of training and development opportunities. You will be part of a wider multi-disciplinary team delivering primary care, mental health, and substance misuse services to our patients.

Main duties of the job

The role includes nurse led clinics, administering medication and treatments, emergency response, triage, wound care, examinations, and referrals. No two days are the same working in our friendly and supportive team. You must have sound nursing knowledge, lots of valuable experience and demonstrate excellent communication skills. If you believe that this could be your next career move and are focused on delivering high quality patient care, then please apply today.

About us

BE THE DIFFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE

Join our team

We're looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative team. Whether you are starting out in your healthcare journey or are an experienced healthcare professional looking for a new challenge we've got a role for you!

• Access to NHS Pension
• Annual leave on your Birthday
• Refer a friend scheme
• Training and Development opportunities
• Flexible Working
• Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes
• Up to 33 days annual leave

We have an ambition to become a truly lived experience inclusive employer, changing how we approach staff experience and value personal stories our colleagues bring with them.

We welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who belong to LGBTQIA+ Community and are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and Asexual, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.

Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people - our patients, service users, staff and partners.

Job responsibilities

To provide a comprehensive physical health service as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team to prisoners with physical health needs within Health & Justice. In conjunction with the management team contribute to and deliver a comprehensive Primary Health Service in partnership with mental health and key stakeholders as part of a multidisciplinary team within the prison setting.This role involves undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, performing diagnostic tests, as appropriate, and providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to meet prisoner health and social care needs.The post holder will be required to work flexibly across the service to provide responsive, evidence-based interventions working alongside physical and mental health clinical teams.The postholder will be part of a team that provides primary care within a prison, preventing transfer to outside hospitals. They will demonstrate knowledge, skills and understanding of health issues and treatment options and have a keen interest in developing knowledge and skills across the integrated services.The post holder will be expected to operate in line with our shared commitment to our values; Working Together, Integrity, Respect and Recognition, Compassion and Innovation.

Person Specification

NMC Registration

• NMC Registration

Knowledge

• Knowledge of current healthcare issues.
• Knowledge of clinical governance audit, risk management and quality agenda.
• Working within a multi-disciplinary healthcare team.
• Competent in clinical practice e.g., phlebotomy, ECG monitoring
• Worked in a complex environment managing deteriorating patients
• Understanding and application of confidentiality
• Experience of working within a Health & Justice environment
• Experience of health needs assessment/Triage
• Working to Patient Group Directives
• Management / Minor Injuries
• Experience of using SystmOne or willing to undertake training

Skills

• Able to work autonomous and 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
• Keyboard skills - computer literate with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Able to maintain contemporaneous clinical records following clinical activities
• Extended scope of practice e.g. wound closure/ cannulation/ managing minor illness and injury
• Management of Long-Term Conditions

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.