Primary Care Staff Nurse - HMP Send

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Looking for a new direction, have just or soon be qualifying? This could be the right role for you to kick off 2024! Prison nursing is both challenging & rewarding, where no two days are the same!
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 Primary Care Staff Nurses to join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP Send. 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 have the opportunity to 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 managed and maintained to the highest of standards at all times.
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.

STAFF WORKING WITHIN PRIMARY CARE WILL:

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.
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust offers its staff ongoing career progression through:
Monthly supervision
Annual personal development plans/appraisals
Access to exciting internal and external training opportunities.
Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities such as but not limited to:
Preceptorship Programme
Support and guidance with Revalidation
Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies
Excellent staff benefits, our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include:
Health and wellbeing services
Season ticket loans
Cycle to work scheme
Relocation package
The trust also values its staff and you are entitled to become a member of MyTrustBenefits. MyTrustBenefits is an online portal for all CNWL staff, as well as their family and friends. It offers over 1400 discounts at hundreds of retailers nationwide. Save money on your weekly food shops, toiletries, cosmetics, cinema, meals out, holidays, travel and entertainment. You can also access free online courses on a variety of topics, professional and personal, ranging from business management, languages, law and teaching.
All of our sites in Surrey offer free use of the onsite leisure facilities and free parking for staff.
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings
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

Please refer the Job description for details