Senior Inpatient Nurse

Practice Plus Group; Preston; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is looking for a Senior Inpatient Nurse to join the Primary Care team at HMP Preston. This full-time role offers an annual salary of £43,609 - £49,175 based on experience. Responsibilities include innovating healthcare solutions, managing medical plans, and supporting a team of practitioners. Ideal candidates will be NMC registered nurses with strong communication and IT skills, committed to compassionate and inclusive care delivery.

Benefits

Bespoke induction and training

Career development opportunities

Employee assistance helpline

Discounts on shopping and leisure activities

Qualifications

• Registered nurse NMC adult / mental health, or Paramedic required.
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development needed.
• Excellent communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Innovate solutions for healthcare challenges in a prison.
• Coordinate care with external services.
• Line manage healthcare practitioners.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Good IT skills and IT literacy

Ability to work within a busy environment

Ability to work unsupervised

Experience in an inpatient setting or ward

Education

Registered nurse NMC adult / mental health, or Paramedic

Evidence of Continued Professional Development

Job description

About The Role

UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE

+ MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO EVERY LIFE

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Inpatient Nurse to join our Primary Care team at HMP Preston, a category B Prison located in Preston. HMP Preston is a remand male prison age 18+ with a capacity of 680.

You will have experience in working within a inpatient setting or ward based, end of life / palliative care experience.

Hours

• Monday - Friday
• 37.5 hours per week
• 8am - 4pm over 5 days or
• 7.30am - 5.30pm over 4 days

Salary

This position is full time, you’ll receive an annual salary between £43,609 - £49,175 per annum FTE - depending on experience.

How will we support you

• 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 due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.

What you’ll be doing

As an Senior Inpatient Nurse your responsibilities will vary. You will

• You will be innovative, bringing fresh ideas and solutions to the challenges of providing healthcare in a prison
• See patients at beginning and end of their time in prisons, both are times of transition in the community and require a coordinated.pa approach to continuity of care with other services
• Work closely with external stakeholders to develop pathways that prevent patients having to attend outside hospital including but not exclusively end of life care and acute care
• Assist with the development of patients medical plans of care, line manage a team of healthcare practitioners ensuring that they are supported and appraised
• Ability to function autonomously and within your sphere of competency, working within a team of healthcare practitioners you must be able to prioritise your own workload, caseload and be able to demonstrate the ability to problem solve

If you are interested in career development, we have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience, which include both internal and external options for development and learning.

It doesn’t stop there… we.button also offer

• Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
• Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
• 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it

What we’ll look for in you

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 embrace diversity
• 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.

• Registered nurse NMC adult / mental health, or Paramedic
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development
• Excellent communication skills
• Good IT skills and IT literacy
• Ability to work within a busy environment
• Ability to work unsupervised whilst following policy and procedures

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