Primary Care Staff Nurse - HMP/YOI Bronzefield

• Provide an accessible individual patient assessment,treatmentand referral service
• Monitor the ongoing health status of patients and addressidentifiedissues
• 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.

• 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

• Induction programme
• 12-month preceptorship programme
• 12-month Band 5 Development programme
• Rotational programme - where you can spend 6 months in 2-3 different health and justice settings to develop your knowledge and skills
• Career coaching
• Clinical supervision
• Newly qualified nurse forums
• NHS Leadership Academy leadership course
• Bespoke health and justice clinical competencies

Essential

• Registered Nurse Adult
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines

Desirable

• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development

Essential

• Caring for the patients who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
• Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
• Able and willing to work with patients, family and carers, and staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
• Able and willing to work in partnership with patients, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals

Essential

• 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.

Essential

• Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten
• Able to maintain patient records
• Care planning: able to assess patients, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
• Empowering and working in partnership
• Safeguarding and advocacy
• Understanding how the Mental Health Act impacts on their work and the patients they are working with
• Understanding their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
• Infection control
• Medicines management and administration
• Communicating effectively
• Mentor, teach and support others in the team
• Supervise others in the team
• Contribute to a positive culture in the team, enabling it to be inclusive

Desirable

• Wound care management
• Clinical triage
• Ear care
• Venepuncture
• Chronic Disease Management
• Smoking cessation
• Cervical screening

Essential

• Previous experience of working in Primary Care services either as a Band 5 Nurse or a Student Nurse