# Primary Care Senior Staff Nurse (band 5-6 development opportunity) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/primary-care-senior-staff-nurse-band-5-6-development-opportunity/c563773e-c9cd-4be3-889c-f60e55390bb7 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/primary-care-senior-staff-nurse-band-5-6-development-opportunity/c563773e-c9cd-4be3-889c-f60e55390bb7.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** HMP Bronzefield - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Staff nurse - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £33,677 - £50,387 per annum inc. Fringe HCAS (pro rata if P/T) - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 18 months (It is expected that progression will be achieved within 12–18 months, depending on individual readiness and development progress) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Health & Justice Services work to a 7 day working week) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-13T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-26T11:30:44.147Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Surrey/Central_North_West_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Health_Justice_Services/Health_Justice_Services-v8256193 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8256193?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you a motivated and compassionate Registered Nurse looking for a unique opportunity to develop your clinical skills within an exciting and challenging environment? We are offering a Band 5–6 Development post within our Prison Healthcare Services at HMP Bronzefield. This permanent position provides a clear, supported pathway for a Band 5 Registered Nurse to progress to a Band 6 Senior Primary Care Nurse role upon successful completion of the required competencies. Working as part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, you will deliver high-quality, patient-centred healthcare to individuals in custody. You’ll gain experience in a diverse range of clinical areas, including primary care, long-term condition management, mental health, substance misuse, and urgent/emergency response within the prison setting. We are looking for nurses who are: - Registered with the NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council). - Compassionate, resilient, and able to work effectively in a secure environment. - Keen to develop clinical, leadership, and decision-making skills. - Able to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. - Committed to providing high-quality, person-centred care. Previous experience in a primary care or secure environment is desirable but not essential — full training and support will be provided. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will: - Deliver an expert healthcare service to patients. - Be confident in offering advice to clinicians, allied healthcare professionals and 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 and contribute to the wider continuous development of healthcare services. - Demonstrate knowledge, skills and understanding of health issues and treatment options in order to provide clinical guidance to staff on matters relating to physical health and 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 and that there is excellent communication and working relationships with all stakeholders, both internal and external - Continually promote high standards of service within the nursing team and contribute to development of a culture of professionalism within the team. - Participate in a flexible working arrangement which will include weekends and unsocial hours when required. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the job description for further duties. Main Responsibility - 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 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. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - 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 understand and implement the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the job. - 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. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Adult Nurse - Evidence of personal and professional development in Nursing since Registration **Desirable** - Post registration qualification appropriate to speciality - Mentorship or practice assessor certification - Chronic disease management or long term condition qualification ### Previous Experience **Essential** - Practical experience of providing high quality care and exceeding expectations. - Experience of providing and receiving supervision - Experience of running clinics **Desirable** - Experience of systmone IT system - Experience of working within a secure environment / prison ### Skills, Knowledge, Abilites **Essential** - 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 written & 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 ## Documents - [band 6 rgn (pdf, 304.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10569287) - [cnwl values (pdf, 182.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1162) - [jd - band 5 (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10569288) - [cnwl staff charter (pdf, 684.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2868) - [cnwl staff networks (pdf, 320.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1160) - [cnwl reward and wellbeing handbook 2020 (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1773) - [cnwl culture scarf behaviour framework (pdf, 710.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2869) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.