Primary Care Staff Nurse - HMP/YOI Bronzefield

Job overview

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 a Band 5 Primary Care Staff Nurse to join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP/YOI Bronzefield.

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 can 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 always managed and maintained to the highest of standards.

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.

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

• 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see full job description and personal specification for full list of responsibilities':

• 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
• Carry out general nursing duties
• Maintain contemporaneous records
• Support and make a professional contribution to the development of integrated healthcare
• Act as a preceptor/mentor in accordance with experience