Primary Care Staff Nurse - HMP/YOI Bronzefield

Job Overview

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner and works in partnership to provide responsive and dependable primary care, mental health, intellectual disability and substance misuse services to the diverse and culturally rich communities we serve.

In our quest to deliver patient-focused quality care we are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic a Band 5 Primary Care Staff Nurse to join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP/YOI Bronzefield.

By joining our Prisons Health Care Team, you will not only look after the healthcare needs of our patients residing in secure environments, but who also can have a real impact on promoting health and well-being. Our healthcare services work to a 7-day week working model, to ensure our patient's healthcare is always managed and maintained to the highest of standards.

Our motto is “Caring NOT Judging” so by working in partnership with the criminal justice system and other agencies, we provide responsive, dependable and high-quality primary care and mental health services to those who may have offended and those at risk of offending in the communities we serve, to improve their health status and to encourage social inclusion.

We offer a great range of career pathways to support our nurses through their journey, see the list of endless opportunities under the working for your organisation tab.

Main duties of the job

• Provide an accessible individual patient assessment, treatment and referral service
• Monitor the ongoing health status of patients and address identified issues
• Work with patients to influence the impact on their health arising from current lifestyle patterns/choices
• Implement effective discharge plans for transfer or release locations
• Co-ordinate multi-disciplinary clinical practice to provide focused integrated care and treatment programmes/packages.

Work collaboratively with staff of other disciplines e.g. officers and governors to provide integrated and coordinated treatment plans.

Working for our organisation

Along with the fully established benefits such as Monthly supervision; Annual personal development plans/appraisals; Preceptorship Programme; Support & guidance with Revalidation; Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies.

We are also able to offer access to a full range of internal and external training opportunities for our Band 5 and newly qualified Band 5 roles across our services.

Our Health and Justice healthcare services present unique and diverse learning, development, and leadership opportunities for nurses, where you will have the potential to make a significant difference to the lives of adults, children and young people who often experience a wide range of health inequalities.

We have developed a clinical leadership career pathway to ensure you feel supported, valued, and developed via our career pathway programme that facilitates lifelong learning.

We will support you in your transition from Student nurse to newly qualified nurse to ensure you develop your clinical and leadership skills this includes:

• Induction programme
• 12-month preceptorship programme
• 12-month Band 5 Development programme
• Rotational programme – where you can spend 6 months in 2-3 different health and justice settings to develop your knowledge and skills
• Career coaching
• Clinical supervision
• Newly qualified nurse forums
• NHS Leadership Academy leadership course
• Bespoke health and justice clinical competencies
  
  

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see full job description and personal specification for full list of responsibilities':

• Triage patient needs in accordance with specific standard operating procedures and national policy e.g. NICE guidance

Assess, plan and implement care for patients within each care/treatment pathway in order to promote wellbeing

Facilitate the use of evidence based practice to ensure that clinical care is both effective and appropriate

Carry out general nursing duties

Maintain contemporaneous records

Support and make a professional contribution to the development of integrated healthcare

Act as a preceptor/mentor in accordance with experience

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse Adult
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
  
  

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics

Essential criteria

• Caring for the patients who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
• Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
• Able and willing to work with patients, family and carers, and staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
• Able and willing to work in partnership with patients, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals
  
  

Other

Essential criteria

• The post holder must have the ability to understand and implement the equal opportunities policy at a level appropriate to the job.
• Ability to promote anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practices.
  
  

Skills and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten

Able to maintain patient records

Care planning: able to assess patients, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan

Empowering and working in partnership

Safeguarding and advocacy

Understanding how the Mental Health Act impacts on their work and the patients they are working with

Understanding their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience

Infection control

Medicines management and administration

Communicating effectively

Mentor, teach and support others in the team

Supervise others in the team

Contribute to a positive culture in the team, enabling it to be inclusive

Desirable criteria

• Wound care management
• Clinical triage
• Ear care
• Venepuncture
• Chronic Disease Management
• Smoking cessation
• Cervical screening
  
  

Previous experience

Essential criteria

• Previous experience of working in Primary Care services either as a Band 5 Nurse or a Student Nurse