Locum Band 6 Prison Primary Nurse role available in Shaftesbury!
Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews is looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 6 Prison Cleared Primary Nurse to take on an exciting position based in Shaftesbury.
Pay Rate: £30.12 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract: Locum & 3-month contract
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Benefits of working with Sanctuary Personnel:
- Effortless Registration: Say goodbye to paperwork! Our fully online and paperless registration service streamlines the process, making it convenient and hassle-free for you.
- Compliance Made Easy: Enjoy peace of mind with our free DBS and compliance service, which includes paid-for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules tailored to your needs.
- Exclusive Opportunities: Unlock access to prestigious prison nursing roles that you won't find elsewhere. From collaborating with NHSBT to supporting vital projects at The Home Office and Vaccination Centres or relocating candidates to Australia, The Falkland Islands and many other destinations, our network opens doors to diverse and impactful assignments in the UK and globally.
- Expert Guidance and Support: Benefit from personalised clinical governance and revalidation support from our in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years of experience. We're here to ensure you're always on top of your game.
- Rewarding Referral Program: Spread the word and reap the rewards! Refer a Nurse and receive a generous £250 bonus once they've completed just 100 hours of work. The best part? There's no limit to how many Nurses you can refer.
- Professional Development: Working as a locum Prison Nurse provides opportunities for continuous professional development. You may encounter new challenges, technologies, and best practices in different settings, which can enhance your clinical skills and knowledge.
Benefits of working in a prison:
- Adding additional experience and variety to your nursing CV which will increase your application journey when applying for future roles
- Gaining prison clearance (if you don't already) which will make you more of an attractive proposition to future prison employers
- The ability to work shifts around hours that suit your lifestyle as shifts are readily available across sociable and unsociable hours
- Prison experience can often lead to rapid career progression especially within education, research and management
- Stringent training and regulations making it a safe place to work for healthcare professionals
Duties:
- Deliver high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison
- Acute & primary care, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators and National Service Frameworks
- Support the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate
- Participate in managerial and professional clinical supervision programme, to ensure junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal and to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice
- Ensure the implementation of effective and appropriate patient centred care planning tools, long-term condition registers and consistent delivery throughout all the prisons within the service
- Work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead, GPs, and other clinicians to meet and review service needs as required
- Deputise for the Team manager as required
- Work positively and effectively in a difficult and often hostile environment
- Work in accordance with policies and guidelines
- Promote equality of opportunity and provide an environment in which the dignity of individuals is respected and free from workplace harassment and bullying
Requirements of the Prison Primary Nurse:
- Exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgments and have decision making skills
- Demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality and outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis
- Be aware of environmental hazards in the working area; ensure staffs are aware of relevant health & safety policies deriving from the Health & Safety at Work Act
- Be familiar with Prison Standards, Standing Orders, Circular instructions, Notices to Staff, Health and Safety and all other relevant material to function as an informed practitioner within a prison setting
- Professional Qualification. (Registered General Nurse) (Essential)
- Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience
- Minimum of two years’ experience at Band 5
- Experience of working within secure & prison settings (desirable but not essential)
- Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations
- Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working
- Ability to work effectively and autonomously
- Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead
- Knowledge of current National Prison Health Quality & Performance Indicators
- Good analytical and judgement skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to manage complex & challenging behaviour
- Use approved breakaway techniques
- Standard IT skills
Contact:
This Prison Primary Nurse job is advertised by Jack Dobrucki; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Registered Nurses who meet the above requirements.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Prison Nurse role as we need to meet our clients requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity.
With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into you work placement.
