Senior Primary Care Nurse - 9 month maternity cover

Practice Plus Group; Leeds; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts on shopping and leisure

Career development opportunities

Employee assistance helpline

Job summary

Practice Plus Group is recruiting a Senior Primary Care Nurse on a 9-month maternity cover basis in a category B men's prison setting. The role supports a nurse-led service with an emphasis on patient safety and reduced hospital admissions, including medication rounds and emergency responses.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team, deliver evidence-based care, and continually improve quality with partners and stakeholders, while benefiting from bespoke induction and regional career development.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with adult scope and current NMC registration.
• Leadership experience essential for multi-disciplinary teams.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development and CPD.
• Understanding of multi-agency working and complex care needs.
• Self-motivated and collaborative team player with a compassionate approach.

Responsibilities

• 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, listen to feedback, and tailor care to what matters to patients.
• Deliver non-judgemental care that makes a real difference.
• Forge links with partners and stakeholders to provide trusted, safe, and proud-to-deliver services.
• Promote best practice, supervision, and continuous quality improvement with shared learning.
• Share knowledge to ensure safe care and support multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Communication

Education

NMC registered nurse (Adult)

Job description

About The Role

UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE

MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO EVERY LIFE

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Primary Care Nurse - 9 month maternity cover to join our Primary Care team a category B men's prison, housing males aged 21+.

Training and development available.

Hours

37.5 hours a week working days and nights, varied. Night shifts - 8pm-07.30am and long days 7am-8.30pm plus 2 weekends a month and ad-hoc bank holidays.

Salary

This position is full time, you'll receive an annual salary up to £49,175per 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.

What you'll be doing

• 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 doesn't stop there

• 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

What we'll look for in you

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)
• Leadership experience essential
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development
• 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.