Senior Primary Care Nurse

NHS; Redditch; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking a Senior Primary Care Nurse to join their team at HMP Hewell, Redditch. This full-time position offers an annual salary of up to £47,466 and involves leading a multi-disciplinary team to provide compassionate and effective care. Ideal candidates will have experience in a health-related field and a commitment to continuous professional development.

Benefits

Discounts on shopping and leisure activities

24/7 employee assistance helpline

Support for professional development

Qualifications

• 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 and act on patient feedback.
• Deliver non-judgemental care that makes a real difference.
• Promote best practice and continuous quality improvement.

Job description

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Primary Care Nurse to join our Primary Care team at HMP Hewell, a category B Prison located in Redditch.

Opportunities for prescribing and health assessment courses are on offer, if you are interested.

Hours

37.5 - 3 days a week

Hours are 7.00am–20:00pm for 3 days. Working 1.5 weekends every 4 weeks.

This position is full time, you’ll receive an annual salary up to £47,466 per annum FTE - 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 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 Primary Care Nurse, your responsibilities will vary. You will

• 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.

It doesnt stop there we also offer:

• 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 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

• 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.

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.

Experience

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Additional Criteria

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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.

Depends on experience Up to £47,466 depending on experience