Long Term Conditions Nurse

Job summary

UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE

+ MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO EVERY LIFE

We have an exciting opportunity for a Long Term Conditions Nurse to join our planned care team at HMP Eastwood Park, located near Bristol. A female prison with 400 capacity.  

Free parking, gym, small cafe, lots of development opportunity for further career enhancement. 

Hours

Working 30 hours across 4 days, 8am-4pm, ideally Friday and Mondays working, other days flexible.  No weekend working. 

Salary

This position is full time, youll receive an annual salary up to £52507 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 and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.

Main duties of the job

As a Long Term Conditions Nurse, your responsibilities will vary. You will

• Be responsible for ensuring a comprehensive handover of services when patients are transferring across wings or custodial care settings.
• You will identify immediate health needs including, any external services or prescribing requirements that prisoners may have received e.g. prior to remand or repatriation onto a wing
• A key part of this role will include the facilitation of arrangements between agencies involved in delivering a complex care package to ensure effective collaboration and stability for the patient in delivery of that care. This requires close joint working with other in-house healthcare services and departments within the prison such as Pharmacy, Education, Offender Management, Substance Misuse and Physical Education, etc. 
• Provide proactive intervention to urgently address improvement recommendations from CQC and HMPP inspections
• Deliver continuity of care across health and social care agencies from courts, to custody and community whilst improving the communication between the above. 
• Continuous improvement of MDT working across HMP and healthcare teams.

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.

About us

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. Were the UKs 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 Groups 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.

Qualifications required 

• Registered Nurse- General with relevant NMC Registration
• Advanced Nurse Prescriber/ Practitioner
• Experience/knowledge with Diabetes or sexual health would be ideal 
• Educated to degree level
• Knowledge of health and social care models across the criminal justice system and of national and local initiatives relating to physical health 
• Knowledge of Evidence Based Practice and Clinical Governance
• Experience of assessing the needs of and working with individuals with complex health and social care needs.

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