Senior Primary Care Nurse

Practice Plus Group; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Senior Primary Care Nurse to join the Primary Care team at HMP Grendon Hill & Spring Hill. This role involves leading a multidisciplinary team, managing medication, and ensuring quality care in a correctional facility. The ideal candidate should be a registered nurse with experience in primary care and a commitment to professional development. Competitive salary up to £54,397 per annum.

Benefits

Parking on site

Access to gym

Employee assistance helpline

Financial assistance when needed

Discounts on shopping and leisure activities

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in primary care settings is desirable.
• Understanding of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-disciplinary team to deliver a nurse-led service.
• Assess patients and undertake medication rounds.
• Provide evidence-based care personalized to patient needs.
• Promote best practices and continuous improvement.

Skills

Registered nurse adult

Primary Care Substance Misuse experience

Long-term conditions experience

Education

Current professional qualification (NMC)

Evidence of continued professional development

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Primary Care Nurse to join our Primary Care team at HMP Grendon Hill & Spring Hill located in North Buckinghamshire. This is a Cat B Trainer site based on a group therapy model. Grendon is a category B, male prison and Spring Hill is a Cat D, male and resettlement function. You would work across both sites.

Parking on site, access to gym and a good working culture with strong relationships with prison staff. There is good scope for career development within the role.

Job summary

UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE

+ MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO EVERY LIFE

Hours

37.5 hours – 2‑week rolling shift patterns, starting at 7.30 am, latest finish at 7 pm, working Monday to Friday. Usually working 3 to 4 long days each week. Working one in two weekends from 7.45 am–5 pm. No night working.

Salary

This position is full time; you will receive an annual salary up to £54,397 per annum FTE – depending on experience.

How 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.

Main duties of the job

• Lead 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
• 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 and providing a service that people can trust, feel safe within, and feel proud of
• 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 and supporting each other to do a great job

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.

Other 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 are 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
• Primary Care Substance Misuse experience – desirable or a willingness/interest to learn
• Current professional qualification (NMC)
• Long‑term conditions experience – desirable
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Understanding of the complexities of multi‑disciplinary and multi‑agency working

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

Grendon Underwood
Edgcott
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire
HP18 0TL

Employer's website

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

£48,120 to £54,397 a year