Primary Care Staff Nurse - HMP Down

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 Band 5 Primary Care Staff Nurse to join our forward‑thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP High Down
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By joining our Prisons Health Care Team, you will look after the healthcare needs of our patients residing in secure environments and have a real impact on promoting health and well‑being. Our services work to a 7‑day week working model to ensure patients’ healthcare is always managed and maintained to the highest of standards.

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.

Why not see what our staff say about working within our award‑winning teams:

• 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.

• 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.

Along with the fully established benefits such as monthly supervision, annual personal development plans/appraisals, preceptorship programme, support and guidance with revalidation, hidden gem & annual award ceremonies.

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

Our Health and Justice healthcare services present unique & diverse learning, development & leadership opportunities for nurses, where you will have the potential to make a significant difference to the lives of adults, children & 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 & 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 – 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

See attached Job Description for full details.

Clinical;

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for patients using agreed Patient Group Directives or care pathways where appropriate.
• Plan and organise your workload without direct supervision in order to meet the requirements of the site regime.
• Administer medication as prescribed, which may include oral, immunisations, intramuscular injections, insulin or nebulisers, and may be…