Primary Care Senior Staff Nurse in Woking

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 Senior Staff Nurse 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.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver expert healthcare service
• Be confident in offering advice to clinicians, allied healthcare professionals & patients.
• Provide a comprehensive primary care health service as part of the integrated health service comprising Primary care, Substance misuse and Mental Health teams, supported by allied health professionals.
• Undertake physical health assessments, run clinics, provide and evaluate a range of health treatments and interventions, to meet the patient's healthcare needs & contribute to the wider continuous development of healthcare services.
• Demonstrate knowledge, skills & understanding of health issues and treatment options in order to provide clinical guidance to staff on matters relating to physical health & wellbeing.
• Ensure high standards of primary care services are delivered in a changing healthcare environment, ensuring that the needs of the patients are at the centre of practice.
• Ensure that the Healthcare Team is integrated within the wider prison services & that there is excellent communication & working relationships with all stakeholders, both internal & external.
• Participate in a flexible working arrangement, including weekends & unsocial hours when required.

About Us

Along with the fully established benefits such as Monthly supervision; Annual personal development plans/appraisals; Support and 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 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 a clinical leadership career pathway in place to ensure you feel supported and valued via our career pathway programme that facilitates lifelong learning and development enabling you to progress within your career within Health & Justice.

We will support you to ensure you develop your clinical and leadership skills this includes:

• Induction programme
• Career coaching
• Clinical supervision
• Reflective Practice
• Ongoing support from professional nurse advocates
• NHS Leadership Academy leadership course
• Bespoke health and justice clinical competencies
• External training courses in enhanced and advanced practice

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

Job responsibilities

Main Responsibilities:

• Plan, deliver and evaluate clinically appropriate interventions using evidenced based guidance and practice.
• Set up processes/protocols for effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for those patients with physical, mental health and substance misuse.
• Safeguard vulnerable patients in line with CNWL Trust safeguarding policies.
• Apply local risk assessment and management.
• Make appropriate referrals to other services for long term or complex care management.
• Co-ordinate multi-disciplinary clinical practice to provide focused and integrated care treatment programs/packages.
• Use highly skilled interventions to de-escalate aggressive patient behaviours and be aware of the appropriate processes for dealing with.
• Work collaboratively with staff of other disciplines e.g. prison, education staff to provide integrated and coordinated.
• Work within own sphere of competency and ensure that training needs are communicated to the team.
• Participate in local and trust audits and trust audits. Participate in clinical governance and utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the multi-disciplinary.
• Liaise with other professional services e.g. hospital staff, GPs and caseworkers, sharing information.
• Work in a highly emotive environment with patients who may have a sexual offending history or mental health / substance misuse problems on a regular basis. Able to communicate sensitive and complex information whilst maintaining a high level of professionalism at all times.
• Attend and contribute to prison meetings as required, and present the view of Healthcare Team on relevant clinical issues. Ensure any actions taken from these meetings are communicated to the appropriate individual responsible for completing the action.
• Ensure that pathways of care are created for the patients, including collecting collateral information and making appropriate referrals into the community when they are approaching.
• Work closely with colleagues to ensure information about risk is recorded and communicated sensitively.
• Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry.
• Ensure that within all aspects of professional activity e.g. communication with patients, relatives, colleagues and the assessment, development and delivery of interventions, issues of diversity such as race, culture, identity, gender and sexuality are sensitively considered and incorporated to reflect individual differences appropriately.

Research And Audits:

• Utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual.
• Assist in audits as per the annual planner or when requested to do so in order to develop and improve service provision.

Teaching, Training And Supervision:

• Participate in regular clinical and managerial supervision in accordance with professional practice and CNWL guidelines.
• Attend appropriate business and clinical meetings, supervision and reflective practice groups.
• Develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties.
• Contribute to and facilitate the training and support of all staff.
• Manage and provide supervision and training to nursing staff.
• Ensure all appraisals are up to date and each member of the team has a personal development plan.
• Develop nursing skills and systems which allow for effective triage, minor aliment management and appropriate referral to other healthcare services.
• Participate in the induction and training of new staff, peers, junior staff and students.

Management, Recruitment And Service Development:

• Assist in the design and implementation of service development projects within the service as required.
• Attend meetings in which service developments are planned and discussed.

IT Responsibilities:

• Input and maintain appropriate electronic clinical records and statistical data, providing this to the Service Lead/business and performance team when necessary.

Policy And Procedures:

• Duties and responsibilities of this post will be undertaken in accordance with the policies and procedures of CNWL / Health & Justice Service Directorate and with the NMC Code of Conduct and Guidance on Professional Practice. It is the post-holder's responsibility to ensure that they keep up-to-date with these policies and other policy.
• Works in accordance with Health & Justice Service Directorate procedures, in particular security, health.
• Applies equal opportunity principles at all times, participate in training activities and Individual Performance and Development.

General:

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the postholder's professional and operational manager(s).
• Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures.
• Perform other duties of a similar kind appropriate to the grade, which may be required from time to time by their.

Person Specification

Essential Qualifications

• NMC Registered Adult Nurse
• Evidence of personal and professional development following registration

Desirable

• Post registration qualification appropriate to speciality
• Mentorship or practice assessor certification
• Chronic disease management or long term condition qualification

Essential Previous Experience

• Practical experience of providing high quality care and exceeding expectations.
• Experience of providing and receiving supervision
• Experience of running clinics
• Substantial and equivalent experience working at band 5.
• Ability to keep accurate records

Desirable

• Experience of systmone IT system
• Experience of working within a secure environment / prison

Essential Skills, Knowledge, Abilities

• Knowledge of medication rounds and the safe storage and administration of drugs.
• Knowledge of clinical audit process and an ability to use audit tools.
• Ability to assess plans, implement and evaluate patient care & act accordingly if untoward changes occurred.
• Knowledge of risk assessment and management and its implementation.
• Able to use computer software packages such as MS Word and Excel.
• Demonstrates the ability to manage work under pressure.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of patient confidentiality.
• Understand the different roles of the multi-disciplinary team and own role within it.
• Ability to demonstrate evidence-based practice & understanding of clinical governance in maintaining quality of care.
• Ability to provide and accept feedback, support, clinical/managerial supervision.
• Knowledge of current developments in specialist clinical area.
• Committed to personal/professional development.
• Flexible approach to work including both day and night shifts where night shifts occur.

Desirable Leadership skills

Essential Other

• Motivated to maintain the highest standards in a changing service.
• Willingness to undertake further training relevant to clinical area.
• Able to recognise signs of stress in self & others.
• Ability to understand and implement the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the job.
• Ability to promote and work in line with the working model of a 7 day a week service.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.