Primary Care Staff Nurse - HMP Downview in London

Central & 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 Nurse to join our forward-thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP Downview.

By joining our Prisons Health Care Team, you will not only look after the healthcare needs of our patients residing in secure environments, but 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 patients' 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 encourage social inclusion.

Main duties of the job 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.

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 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

All of our sites in Surrey offer free use of the onsite leisure facilities and free parking for staff.

Detailed job description and main 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
• Support and make a professional contribution to the development of integrated healthcare
• Act as a preceptor/mentor in accordance with experience.

Person specification:

• Registered NMC Nurse Adult
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
• Be a role model and embody CNWL's values, Caring and 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

Skills and knowledge:

• 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.
• 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 and Aseptic Non-Touch Technique
• 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, kind and hard working
• Help others in the team achieve their objectives and deliver safe, effective care
• Work well with other members of the team, communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable and enthusiastic.
• Previous experience of working in Primary Care services either as a Band 5 Nurse or a Student Nurse

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. Ability to promote and work in line with the working model of a 7-day a week service. The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. 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 in our healthcare settings.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible. Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system. Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13-week probationary period. If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

We are a friendly team and encourage any prospective candidate to contact us with any questions and/or to book an informal visit. You can also find more information on our services and the work we do within the Health & Justice Directorate.