Job summary
- Main area
- Health & Justice
- Grade
- NHS AFC Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 333-D-HJ-1878
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HMP High Down
- Town
- Sutton, Surrey
- Salary
- £35,763 - £43,466 per annum inc. Outer HCAS (pro rata if P/T)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 31/10/2025
Employer heading
Primary Care Staff Nurse - HMP High Down
NHS AFC Band 5
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
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 Band 5 Primary Care Staff Nurse to join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP High Down.
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.
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.
Why not see what our staff say about working within our award-winning teams: https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/health-and-justice/find-out-what-its-work-health-and-justice
Main duties of the job
Staff working within Primary Care will:
- 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.
Key Tasks:
- 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.
Working for our organisation
Along with the fully established benefits such as Monthly supervision; Annual personal development plans/appraisals; Preceptorship Programme; Support and guidance with Revalidation; Hidden Gem & annual award ceremonies.
We are also able to offer access to a full range of internal & external training opportunities for our Band 5 & newly qualified Band 5 roles across our services.
Our Health and Justice healthcare services present unique & diverse learning, development, & leadership opportunities for nurses, where you will have the potential to make a significant difference to the lives of adults, children & young people who often experience a wide range of health inequalities.
We have developed a clinical leadership career pathway to ensure you feel supported, valued & developed via our career pathway programme that facilitates lifelong learning.
We will support you in your transition from Student nurse to newly qualified nurse to ensure you develop your clinical and leadership skills this includes:
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Induction programme
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12-month preceptorship programme
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12-month Band 5 Development programme
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Rotational programme – where you can spend 6 months in 2-3 different health and justice settings to develop your knowledge and skills
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Career coaching
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Clinical supervision
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Newly qualified nurse forums
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NHS Leadership Academy leadership course
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Bespoke health and justice clinical competencies
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached Job Description for full details.
Clinical;
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for patients using agreed Patient Group Directives or care pathways where appropriate.
- Plan and organise own workload without direct supervision in order to meet the requirements of the site regime.
- Administer medication as prescribed, which may include oral, immunisations, intramuscular injections, insulin or nebulisers, and may be compounded by frequent unplanned interruptions such as other patients, staff requests.
- Treat where possible (e.g. Hep B, Covid and Flu vaccines, minor ailments), referring on to other departments, clinical specialists or any other appropriate person as required.
- Ensure that those identified as requiring specialist input such as mental health or substance misuse, are referred in a timely a manner and that relevant paperwork is completed and care communicated to relevant staff, taking due account of the sensitivity of any information shared with non healthcare professionals who have to manage the patient on the wing.
- For those identified as being at risk of self-harm, complete an ACCT document following a thorough assessment and communicate concerns to the appropriate member of staff.
- Provide appropriate and timely health promotion interventions to the patient and advise staff accordingly.
- Participate in health promotion/harm minimisation clinics in specific disease related areas, ensuring that clinics run smoothly and meet national and local priorities and guidelines e.g.
- · Smoking cessation
- · Hepatitis B
- · Immunisations and vaccinations
- · Sexual health
- · Diabetes
- · Asthma
- · Coronary Heart Disease
- Will be required to take, collect or transport specimens such as blood, wound swabs or urine.
- Will be required to undertake wound dressings.
- Ensure that patients being discharged back to the community have sufficient medication and a discharge letter summarising their care package for their GP.
- Carry out CPR when required and make best use of the emergency equipment such as the defibrillator.
- Attend case conferences as required for patients e.g. ACCT reviews, safety intervention meetings or complex case reviews.
- Undertake such other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time, which are consistent with the responsibilities and grade of the post. This may include providing cover for other teams internally or at other sites.
Person specification
Education & Quailifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse Adult
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working in Primary Care services either as a band 5 nurse, or a student nurse
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working in Primary Care services either as a band 5 nurse, or a student nurse in a prison setting
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- 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 talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
- Able to maintain electronic patient records
- 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 criteria
- Wound care management
- Clinical triage
- Ear care
- Venepuncture
- Chronic Disease Management
- Smoking cessation
- Cervical screening
Attitudes
Essential criteria
- Be a role model and embody CNWL’s values - Caring
- Be a role model and embody CNWL’s values - Respectful of others
- Be a role model and embody CNWL’s values - Empowers
- Be a role model and embody CNWL’s values - Partnership
Other
Essential criteria
- 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
- • Ability to promote and work in line with the working model of a 7 day a week service
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Niamh Fugill
- Job title
- Primary Care Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
We are a friendly team and encourage any prospective candidate to contact us with any questions and/or to book an informal visit.
You can also find more information on our services and the work we do within the Health & Justice Directorate please do take a look at our new website https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/health-and-justice
Our healthcare services work to a 7-day week working model, to ensure our patient's healthcare is managed and maintained to the highest of standards at all times.
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