Job summary
- Main area
- Health & Justice Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Health & Justice Services work to a 7 day working week)
- Job ref
- 333-D-HJ-1822
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HMP Send
- Town
- Ripley, Woking
- Salary
- £48,270 - £54,931 per annum inc. of HCAS fringe (pro rata if P/T)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 28/07/2025
Employer heading
Women’s Primary Care Clinical Lead - HMP Send
NHS AfC: Band 7
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 Women's Primary Care Clinical Lead to join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP Send. 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
· The Women’s Primary Care Clinical Lead will be focussing on Women’s Health, and will be a Women’s Health clinical expert who will work to achieve a targeted and appropriate service. Delivered in accordance with evidence-based practice and local policies and procedures.
· The post holder is expected to deliver care in a range of nurse led Women’s Health clinics utilising the Quality Outcome Framework and to further develop women specific services such as sexual and reproductive health, menopause and menstrual wellbeing, screening, weight management and health promotion.
· The post holder will demonstrate a professional manner which is tolerant, courteous and calm in the full course of their duties, in relation to dealing with colleagues, visitors and patients. They will be able to effectively deal with all patients in a professional, nonreactive manner and diffuse potentially volatile situations to avoid escalation. They will be expected to demonstrate a full and proactive commitment to equal opportunities in accordance with local and national policies.
Working for our organisation
Along with the fully established benefits such as Monthly supervision; Annual personal development plans/appraisals; Support and guidance with Revalidation; Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies. We are also able to offer access to a full range of internal and external training opportunities across our services.
Our Health and Justice healthcare services present unique and diverse learning, development, and leadership opportunities for nurses, where you will have the potential to make a significant difference to the lives of adults, children and young people who often experience a wide range of health inequalities.
We have a clinical leadership career pathway in place to ensure you feel supported and valued via our career pathway programme that facilitates lifelong learning and development enabling you to progress within you career within Health & Justice.
We will support you to ensure you develop your clinical and leadership skills this includes:
-
Induction programme
- Career coaching
-
Clinical supervision
-
Reflective Practice
-
Ongoing support from professional nurse advocates
-
NHS Leadership Academy leadership course
-
Bespoke health and justice clinical competencies
-
External training courses in enhanced and advanced practice
All our sites in Surrey offer free use of the onsite leisure facilities and free parking for staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached JD&PS for full details of duties and responsibilities.
Clinical:
- Plan, deliver and evaluate interventions for treatment as clinically appropriate using evidence based models.
- Set up processes/protocols for effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for patients with a range of women’s health care needs, including menopause, screenings and reproductive health.
- Safeguard vulnerable patients in line with Trust safeguarding policies.
- Provide brief Women’s Health interventions - health education, advice and information - to patients and develop Women’s Health promotion programmes to be delivered in partnership with the prison.
- Lead the development of Women’s Health services. Provide specialist clinical advice, training and support to healthcare colleagues, including Mental Health Teams on the management of patients Women’s Health needs.
- To provide comprehensive sexual health information, advice, teaching and support to patients enabling them to select and use a method of contraception suited to their needs.
- Apply local Risk Assessment and management protocols.
- Make appropriate referrals onto other women’s health services. Advise Primary care nursing staff and GP’s on medication issues, promote adherence to local medication policies/protocols and compliance with legal and professional standards.
- Possess knowledge of the security implications of medicines within Health & Justice Services.
- Monitor the on-going health status of patients and address identified women’s health issues.
- Co-ordinate multi-disciplinary clinical practice to provide focused, integrated care and treatment programmes focussing on women’s health.
- Work collaboratively with primary care staff to develop clinical services that deliver high quality nurse-led women’s health specific clinics e.g. reproductive health, menopause and menstrual wellbeing, screening, clinics and health promotion initiatives.
- Hold a clinical caseload of those with complex Women’s Health needs and requiring advanced intervention within Primary Care.
- To undertake non-medical prescribing duties following appropriate accredited training (this being entered on the relevant professional register) within agreed protocols.
- Work collaboratively with staff of other disciplines e.g. prison, education staff to provide integrated and coordinated women’s healthcare.
- Work within own sphere of competency and ensure that training needs are communicated to the team manager.
- Lead local audits to enhance quality of care for subjects around women’s health.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Adult Nurse
- Educated to degree level or evidence of appropriate experience
- Extensive knowledge of Women’s Health specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience.
Desirable criteria
- ENB 998 / SLICE or mentorship qualification
- V300 Independent Non-Medical Prescriber or willing to work towards
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience at Band 6 or equivalent in a multi- disciplinary staff team, including line management and supervision responsibilities
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration, including partnership working with other agencies
- Experienced in involving service users in service planning and monitoring
- Developing and running Nurse Led Clinics and holding a case load of complex cases
- Proven experience working in Women’s Health
- Experience within a prison or low, medium or high security hospital setting.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of service development
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge of primary care/ health frameworks and guidance for women in prison
- Able to undertake cytology independently
- Ability to support in building and developing teams of people, and to provide clinical leadership to a diverse workforce.
- Demonstrate excellent leadership skills
- Able to influence and use negotiation skills to manage differences constructively
- A demonstrable ability to work closely with a range of stakeholders and other providers in helping plan the future of service provision
- Able to demonstrate a genuine commitment to principles of equal opportunity, fair access and service user empowerment, and the ability to translate principles into practice
- Demonstrate professional integrity, and an ability to present the nursing viewpoint within appropriate meetings
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of safeguarding practice for both vulnerable adults and children
Desirable criteria
- Basic word processing and spreadsheet skills
- Experience with using SystmOne (Clinical System)
Attitudes, aptitudes personal characteristics
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate a positive ‘can do’ attitude despite the challenges of any given situation
- Demonstrate the ability to weigh up situations and consider the benefits and problems before decisions are made
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable ability to plan and implement change in the service and ensure the involvement of the workforce in the programme of change.
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
- Anelia Litova
- 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.
HMP Send is situated within an acute rural area, candidates will require their own transport to access, there is no direct public transport links to and from the establishment.
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.
List jobs with Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust in Nursing and Midwifery or all sectors