This Registered Nurse post at HMP Forest Bank is delivered by Spectrum Community Health CIC as part of a multidisciplinary team. The work centres on health assessments, giving medication and treatments, running diagnostic tests and delivering health interventions for prisoners' physical health needs. It is primary care inside a prison, aimed at keeping patients out of outside hospitals, with flexible working alongside the physical and mental health clinical teams. Applicants need NMC registration at Level 1 in adult, general or mental health.
What the job involves
- Undertake health assessments
- Administer medication and treatments
- Perform diagnostic tests, as appropriate
- Provide and evaluate a range of health interventions to meet prisoner health and social care needs
- Work flexibly across the service, providing responsive, evidence-based interventions alongside physical and mental health teams
- Contribute to and deliver a comprehensive primary health service with management, mental health and key stakeholders
- Provide primary care within the prison to prevent transfers to outside hospitals
- Work in line with the organisation's values
What’s required
Registration & licences
- NMC registration as a Registered Nurse, Level 1 in adult, general or mental health
Experience
- Experience of working in a complex environment managing deteriorating patients
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent communication skills
- Competent in clinical practice, such as phlebotomy and ECG monitoring
- Knowledge of current healthcare issues
- Knowledge of clinical governance, audit, risk management and the quality agenda
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary healthcare team
- Understanding and application of confidentiality
Other
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team, with positive working relationships
- Ability to prioritise and organise own workload and that of other staff
- Ability to work in a challenging and diverse environment
- Keyboard skills with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Able to maintain contemporaneous clinical records after clinical activities
- Professional attitude, positive attitude to change, and non-judgmental, respectful treatment of others
Nice to have
- Mentorship, supervision, teaching, assessing experience or training
- Experience of working within a Health & Justice environment
- Experience of health needs assessment or triage
- Experience of working to Patient Group Directives
- Experience of working in general practice
- Management or minor injuries experience
- Experience of using SystmOne, or willingness to train on it
What’s offered
- Access to NHS Pension
- Additional day off
- Refer a friend scheme
- Training and development opportunities
- Flexible working
- Access to employee assistance and health and wellbeing programmes
- Up to 33 days annual leave
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
