Senior Planned Care Nurse

Practice Plus Group; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Liverpool is seeking a Senior Planned Care Nurse for a busy remand prison. You will provide leadership, manage planned care programmes, and work within a multi-disciplinary team to ensure safe staffing and effective patient care. Ideal candidates will be registered nurses with excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a complex environment.

Benefits

Discounts on shopping and leisure activities

Support for professional development

24/7 employee assistance helpline

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with current UK professional registration is mandatory.
• Experience in a hospital, community or prison environment is ideal but not essential.
• Must demonstrate excellent communication and team collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and clinical role model.
• Support staff with complex clinical decisions.
• Carry out planned Care Management.
• Lead and coordinate planned care programmes.
• Monitor and audit planned care pathways.

Skills

Registered nurse Adult

Excellent communication skills

Proactive problem solving skills

Understanding of multi-disciplinary working

Motivated in team settings

Education

Current professional qualification (NMC)

Evidence of Continued Professional Development

Job description

Job summary

UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE

+ MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO EVERY LIFE

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Planned Care Nurse to join our Primary Care Team at HMP Altcourse, a category B prison located in the Fazakerley area of Liverpool. This is a very busy remand prison with a high turnover of patients. Within this role, you’ll be an integral part of the healthcare team and work within a multi‑disciplinary team to deliver a nurse‑led service and prevent hospital admissions.

Hours

We operate a 7 days a week Service. You will be expected to work approximately 1 in 3 weekends and some nights.

Shift Times: 7am - 8pm, 8am - 9pm, 9am - 10pm, 7:45pm - 7:15am

Salary

This position is full time, you’ll receive an annual salary from £43,043 to £50,256 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 on a permanent basis and, due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Planned Care Nurse, your responsibilities will vary. You will:

• Provide visible, effective leadership and act as a clinical role model
• Support staff with complex clinical decisions
• Promote a culture of safety, learning and continuous improvement
• Carry out planned Care Management
• Lead and coordinate planned care programmes (e.g. vaccination, screening, health promotion)
• Oversee management of long‑term conditions (diabetes, asthma, hypertension, COPD)
• Line‑manage and support the Practice Nurse in delivering preventative and planned care
• Monitor and audit planned care pathways to ensure clinical governance compliance
• Rota and workforce management
• Lead rota planning and staff allocation to maintain safe staffing levels

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.

Benefits

• 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

About us

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 UK’s 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 Group’s 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.

Qualifications required

• Registered nurse Adult
• Current professional qualification (NMC)
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development
• Understanding of the complexities of multi‑disciplinary and multi‑agency working
• Excellent communication skills
• Proactive problem solving skills
• Motivated as an individual and when working in a team

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

Job description

Secure environments are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If you’re 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.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name

Practice Plus Group

Address

Brookfield Drive
Liverpool
L9 7LH

Employer's website

https://practiceplusgroup.com/our-jobs/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)

Recruiter contact

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