Senior Primary Care Nurse

Job summary

ADD TO LIFE. EVERY LIFE Where making a difference changes lives Prisons are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work - if youre looking for a role where you can develop your existing skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this is it!   As a Senior Nurse you will lead a multi-disciplinary team to deliver a nurse led service and prevent hospital admissions. You will undertake medication rounds, dispense controlled medication, attend emergency response situations, assess patients, and undertake reception screening.   HMP Wayland is a category C training prison holding adult males, and has a capacity of 1,017. The prison originally opened in1985, and since then, has been added to significantly, increasing its capacity by some margin.  

Main duties of the job

You will be a Registered Nurse (RGN) looking to develop your current skills in a unique and ever changing environment. You will have a passion for learning and development, as well as having the initiative to bring new ideas and opinions on how to improve the healthcare services. Prison Healthcare experience is not essential although we do ask that you have experience within primary care.

Interested in clinical development?

We offer opportunities to develop in to a specialist role of your interest which in turn benefits the service. Examples include ANP, BBV, sexual health, ILS (intermediate life support), health promotion, phlebotomy, vaccinations, suturing, wound care, RCGP, and long term condition courses.

How will we support you?

Bespoke induction Competency framework Regional and national career development opportunities Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs Support from the wider team   Youll receive an annual salary up to 46,200 per annum - depending on experience. We offer many additional benefits such as: cycle to work scheme, free DBS check, free uniform, an extensive training and development structure for all employees along with an employee recognition scheme. 

It doesnt stop there- we also offer a company pension scheme which we as Practice Plus Group also pay into, 25 days annual leave increasing with service up to 28 days per year, plus 8 public bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time) and shopping discounts.

About us

Practice Plus Group is a specialist provider of NHS services into prison healthcare across over 45 different prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We believe in putting the patient first, regardless of the environment or their history. The prison population is one of the most vulnerable and challenged patient groups in society and the delivery of their health care is conducted within often difficult and demanding environments.

Practice Plus Groups mission is Access to Excellence.  Our core values are; 

• 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. 
• Patients can only access excellence if we commit to living our values in everything we do when were at work.

If you share these values and have transferable skills we want to meet you!

Please note that this role is subject to Practice Plus Group Terms & Conditions and offers of employment are subject to satisfactory receipt of references, enhanced DBS check and prison vetting. At Practice Plus Group we actively promote diversity and equal opportunities and we are committed to this in both the running of our prison healthcare service and how we recruit our staff. We actively encourage applications from everyone with the essential requirements of the job, regardless of any protected characteristics.

Job description

Job responsibilities

ADD TO LIFE. EVERY LIFE Where making a difference changes lives Prisons are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work - if youre looking for a role where you can develop your existing skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this is it!   As a Senior Nurse you will lead a multi-disciplinary team to deliver a nurse led service and prevent hospital admissions. You will undertake medication rounds, dispense controlled medication, attend emergency response situations, assess patients, and undertake reception screening.   HMP Wayland is a category C training prison holding adult males, and has a capacity of 1,017. The prison originally opened in1985, and since then, has been added to significantly, increasing its capacity by some margin.  

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Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).