Primary Care Senior Staff Nurse - HMP Send

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 (part time 30 hrs p/w) 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.

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.

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 opportunitie s 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 you 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

O ngoing 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.

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