Senior Primary Care Nurse

Practice Plus Group; Winchester; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Winchester is seeking a Senior Primary Care Nurse to lead a multi-disciplinary team in delivering exceptional care at HMP Winchester. The role involves medication rounds, patient assessment, and promoting best practices within the nursing team. Ideal candidates will be registered nurses with strong communication and problem-solving skills, and experience in secure environments is preferred. The position offers a competitive salary up to £54,397 per annum and various career development opportunities.

Benefits

Discounts on shopping and leisure activities

24/7 employee assistance helpline

Professional development support

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with valid NMC registration.
• Experience in multi-disciplinary team environments.
• Health sector experience, preferably in secure environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-disciplinary team to provide care and prevent hospital admissions.
• Undertake medication rounds and assess patients.
• Deliver personalized evidence-based care.

Skills

Registered NMC nurse – Adult

Excellent communication skills

Proactive problem solving skills

Understanding of multi-disciplinary working

Education

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 Primary Care Nurse to join our primary care team at HMP Winchester, a category B Prison located in central Winchester.

HMP Winchester is a Category B Local remand prison located in Central Winchester accommodating approximately 670 male prisoners.

Although the site is close to Winchester city centre there is onsite parking for all staff and it is a short walk from Winchester train station.

Hours

37.5 hours a week working a mix of 50/50 days and nights. 2 weeks of day shifts & 2 weeks of nights. i.e. working a mix of shifts days and nights over a 4 week rolling rota. 7 nights in 4 week period.

Nights: 20:30 – 08:00
Days: 07:30 – 20:00

Salary

This position is full time, you’ll receive an annual salary up to £54397 per annum – 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 and 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 a Senior Primary Care Nurse, your responsibilities will vary. You will

• Lead a multi-disciplinary team to deliver a nurse led service and prevent hospital admissions
• Undertake medication rounds, dispense controlled medication, attend emergency response situations, assess patients, and undertake reception screening
• Provide outstanding evidence based care to our patients, seeking out, listening to and acting on their feedback, so that care is personalised and informed by what matters to them.
• Deliver non-judgemental care that makes a real difference
• Inspire excellence by forging strong links with our partners and stakeholders and providing a service that people can trust, feel safe within, and feel proud of
• Promote best practice, clinical supervision, evidence based care and continuous quality improvement, embedding a culture of shared learning.
• Share knowledge, skills and expertise to ensure safe care, building strong multi-disciplinary teams and supporting each other to do a great job.

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 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.

Requirements

• Registered NMC nurse – Adult
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development
• Understanding of the complexities of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
• Excellent communication skills
• Proactive problem solving skills
• Motivated as an individual and when working in a team

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

Secure environments are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If you’re looking for a role where you can develop your existing healthcare skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this could be the right opportunity for you.