Senior Primary Care Nurse

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Primary Care Nurse to join our Primary Care team at HMP Wealstun, a category C Prison located in Wetherby.

HMP Wealstun is a male prison with a capacity for 832. Ideal candidate would have experience working in a secure environment and be able to work independently.

PPG pathway opportunities offered in this role including Nurse Prescribing which can be offered after probation.

Hours

37.5 hours a week, 12 hour shifts working across 3 days but covering 7 days per week. Every 8 weeks an extra shift. Working every other weekend.

Salary

This position is full time, you'll receive an annual salary up to £47,466 per annum FTE - depending on experience.

Support and Development

• Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course
• Competency framework
• Regional and national career development opportunities
• Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
• Support from the wider team

Candidates are required to have a legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.

Main duties of the job

• Lead a multi-disciplinary team to deliver a nurse led service and prevent hospital admissions
• Undertake medication rounds, dispense controlled medication, attend emergency response situations, assess patients, and undertake reception screening
• Provide outstanding evidence based care to our patients, seeking out, listening to and acting on their feedback, so that care is personalised and informed by what matters to them
• Deliver non-judgemental care that makes a real difference
• Inspire excellence by forging strong links with our partners and stakeholders and providing a service that people can trust, feel safe within, and feel proud of
• Promote best practice, clinical supervision, evidence based care and continuous quality improvement, embedding a culture of shared learning
• Share knowledge, skills and expertise to ensure safe care, building strong multi-disciplinary teams and supporting each other to do a great job

Qualifications

• Evidence of Continued Professional Development
• Long term conditions experience - desirable
• Understanding of the complexities of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
• Motivated as an individual and when working in a team

Experience / Additional Criteria

• Although not essential ideal applicants would have experience in a hospital, community or prison environment.

About us

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We're the UK's leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Practice Plus Group's purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:

• we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
• we act with integrity
• we strive to do things better together

We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

Job qualifications and requirements

• Evidence of Continued Professional Development
• Long term conditions experience - desirable
• Understanding of the complexities of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
• Motivated as an individual and when working in a team

Disclosure and DBS

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.

Salary: £42,094 to £47,466 a year