Primary Care Staff Nurse - HMP Coldingley

Primary Care Staff Nurse - HMP Coldingley

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner & works in partnership to provide responsive & dependable primary care, mental health, intellectual disability & substance misuse services to the diverse & culturally rich communities we serve.

In our quest to deliver patient-focused quality care, we are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative & enthusiastic Band 5 Primary Care Staff Nurse to join our forward-thinking, friendly & expanding Health & Justice team at HMP Coldingley. 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 can have a real impact on promoting health & well-being. Our healthcare services work to a 7-day week model to ensure our patients' healthcare is always managed & maintained to the highest standards.

Our motto is "Caring NOT Judging" so by working in partnership with the criminal justice system & other agencies, we provide responsive, dependable & high-quality primary care & mental health services to those who may have offended & those at risk of offending in the communities we serve, to improve their health status & to encourage social inclusion.

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.

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.

Key Tasks:

• 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.

About us

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 are also able to 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 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

Job responsibilities

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 own 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 compounded by frequent unplanned interruptions such as other patients, staff requests.
• Treat where possible (e.g. Hep B, Covid and Flu vaccines, minor ailments), referring on to other departments, clinical specialists or any other appropriate person as required.
• Ensure that those identified as requiring specialist input such as mental health or substance misuse are referred in a timely manner and that relevant paperwork is completed and care communicated to relevant staff, taking due account of the sensitivity of any information shared with non-healthcare professionals who have to manage the patient on the wing.
• For those identified as being at risk of self-harm, complete an ACCT document following a thorough assessment and communicate concerns to the appropriate member of staff.
• Provide appropriate and timely health promotion interventions to the patient and advise staff accordingly.
• Participate in health promotion/harm minimisation clinics in specific disease-related areas, ensuring that clinics run smoothly and meet national and local priorities and guidelines e.g.
  • Smoking cessation
  • Hepatitis B
  • Immunisations and vaccinations
  • Sexual health
  • Diabetes
  • Asthma
  • Coronary Heart Disease
• Will be required to take, collect or transport specimens such as blood, wound swabs or urine.
• Will be required to undertake wound dressings.
• Ensure that patients being discharged back to the community have sufficient medication and a discharge letter summarising their care package for their GP.
• Carry out CPR when required and make best use of the emergency equipment such as the defibrillator.
• Attend case conferences as required for patients e.g. ACCT reviews, safety intervention meetings or complex case reviews.
• Undertake such other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time, which are consistent with the responsibilities and grade of the post. This may include providing cover for other teams internally or at other sites.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

• Registered Nurse Adult
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
• Previous experience of working in Primary Care services either as a Band 5 Nurse or a Student Nurse

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.
• Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary.
• Able to maintain electronic patient records.
• 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.
• 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.
• Wound care management, clinical triage, ear care, venepuncture, chronic disease management, smoking cessation, cervical screening.

Attitudes/aptitudes/personal characteristics

• Caring
• Respectful to others
• Empowers
• Partnership

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.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

£31,469 to £38,308 a year per annum inc. Fringe HCAS (pro rata if P/T)