# 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/cc1e58aa-897b-45f5-81c1-bf50a8d80b9d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/primary-care-senior-staff-nurse-band-5-6-development-opportunity/cc1e58aa-897b-45f5-81c1-bf50a8d80b9d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **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:** 2026-07-26T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-10T12:19:20.968Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Surrey/Central_North_West_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Health_Justice_Services/Health_Justice_Services-v8121972 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8121972?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. ## 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=10418292) - [cnwl values (pdf, 182.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1162) - [jd - band 5 (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10446921) - [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.