Job summary
- Main area
- Prison Primary Care
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: includes retention and recruitment allowance
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-7165736-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HMPYOI Stoke Heath
- Town
- Market Drayton, Shropshire
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum, includes retention and recruitment allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Staff Nurse - Prison Primary Care
NHS AfC: Band 5
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicant who require a visa to work in the UK, providing the role you’ve been recruited to meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
From 4 April 2024 overseas workers requiring a general Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) but sponsored by an NHS organisation will need to meet the new salary threshold of £38,700. In addition, applications to the Health and Care Visa route for those occupations paid by NHS bands that are on the immigration salary, a list of skilled jobs which have lower salary requirements, will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the new minimum salary threshold of £23,200 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list
https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa/different-salary-requirements
Job overview
We have a new opportunity for the position of Prison Primary Care Staff Nurse.
As part of this role, you would have line manager responsibility for registered nurses, healthcare assistants and administration staff. you would be responsible for assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient's healthcare needs. Upon reception to custody, you would complete an assessment of patients’ mental and physical wellbeing/needs.
Main duties of the job
- Use of statutory and organisational requirements and guidelines, relating to the administration of medicine.
- Respect patient’s individuality and maintain their privacy, dignity and human rights within the constraints of the custodial environment.
- Support patients to address issues which effect their own health, behaviour and social welfare. Provide patients with support during healthcare activities.
- Support patients who are distressed who could be at risk of harm to themselves or others, or who are at risk of suicide.
- Take responsibility for clinical treatment or appropriate referral to doctors or outside agencies, also removal of risk factors in a situation where risk of self harm, or harm to others or suicide seems evident.
- Support patients and exercise positive relationships with professional boundaries as part of a purposeful caring regime.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse on general adult section of NMC register
- Current NMC registration
Experience
Essential criteria
- Excellent clinical skills
- Experience of or interest in working in a custodial environment
- Experience of assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care
- Evidence of professional development
- Experience of working with a multi-disciplinary team
Other
Essential criteria
- Must be able to meet travel requirements of post and work at either prison site as service needs dictate
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work autonomously on own initiative within the scope of professional practice
- Ability to participate in clinical supervision
- Ability to organise and assess junior staff and delegate appropriately
- Demonstrate ability to work to deadlines in a complex environment
- Ability to work as part of a team
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
- Wendy Sweeney
- Job title
- Clinical Nurse Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01630636035
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