Senior Primary Care Nurse

NHS; Reading; On-site; GBP 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Senior Primary Care Nurse for their Primary Care team at HMP Wayland in Norfolk. The role includes leading a multi-disciplinary team to provide nurse-led services, medication management, and delivering high-quality, evidence-based care. Applicants should be a registered nurse with current qualifications and be motivated to work effectively within teams. The position offers a salary of up to £47,466 depending on experience, and is subject to vetting due to the nature of the role.

Benefits

Bespoke induction

Career development opportunities

Support from the wider team

Qualifications

• Registered nurse Adult.
• Current professional qualification (NMC).
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development.
• Long term conditions experience - desirable.
• Understanding of the complexities of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
• Motivated as an individual and when working in a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-disciplinary team to deliver a nurse-led service.
• Undertake medication rounds, dispense controlled medication, and assess patients.
• Provide outstanding evidence-based care to patients.
• Deliver non-judgemental care that makes a difference.
• Inspire excellence by forging strong links with partners.
• Promote best practice and clinical supervision.
• Share knowledge and skills for safe care.

Job description

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Primary Care Nurse to join our Primary Care team at HMP Wayland, a category C Prison located in Griston in Norfolk. You’ll receive a salary of up to £47,466 depending on experience. Hours: 7.30 am – 19:30, Monday to Friday; 08:30 am – 17:30 weekends.

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.

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 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 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

Qualifications

• Registered nurse Adult
• Current professional qualification (NMC)
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development
• Long term conditions experience - desirable
• Understanding of the complexities of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
• 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.

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: treat patients and each other with respect, act with integrity, embrace diversity, and strive to do things better together.

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

Additional information

Disclosures and registration

• 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
• Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details: Practice Plus Group, Hawker House, Napier Court, 5-6 Napier Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 8BW

Employer's website: https://practiceplusgroup.com/our-jobs/join-our-team/