Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Primary Care Senior Staff Nurse (band 5-6 development opportunity)
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Job Overview
Are you a motivated and compassionate Registered Nurse looking for a unique opportunity to develop your clinical skills within an exciting and challenging environment?
We are offering a Band 5–6 Development post within our Prison Healthcare Services at HMP Bronzefield. This permanent position provides a clear, supported pathway for a Band 5 Registered Nurse to progress to a Band 6 Senior Primary Care Nurse role upon successful completion of the required competencies.
Working as part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, you will deliver high-quality, patient-centred healthcare to individuals in custody. You’ll gain experience in a diverse range of clinical areas, including primary care, long-term condition management, mental health, substance misuse, and urgent/emergency response within the prison setting.
We are looking for nurses who are:
- Registered with the NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council).
- Compassionate, resilient, and able to work effectively in a secure environment.
- Keen to develop clinical, leadership, and decision-making skills.
- Able to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Committed to providing high-quality, person-centred care.
Previous experience in a primary care or secure environment is desirable but not essential — full training and support will be provided.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
- Deliver an expert healthcare service to patients.
- Be confident in offering advice to clinicians, allied healthcare professionals and patients.
- Provide a comprehensive primary care health service as part of the integrated health service comprising Primary care, Substance misuse and Mental Health teams, supported by allied health professionals.
- Undertake physical health assessments, run clinics, provide and evaluate a range of health treatments and interventions, to meet the patient’s healthcare needs and contribute to the wider continuous development of healthcare services.
- Demonstrate knowledge, skills and understanding of health issues and treatment options in order to provide clinical guidance to staff on matters relating to physical health and wellbeing.
- Ensure high standards of primary care services are delivered in a changing healthcare environment, ensuring that the needs of the patients are at the centre of practice.
- Ensure that the Healthcare Team is integrated within the wider prison services and that there is excellent communication and working relationships with all stakeholders, both internal and external
- Continually promote high standards of service within the nursing team and contribute to development of a culture of professionalism within the team.
- Participate in a flexible working arrangement which will include weekends and unsocial hours when required.
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As a Band 5 Registered Nurse, you will:
- Work through a structured set of nursing, profession-specific, and service-specific Band 6 competencies.
- Complete any associated training and development requirements.
- Demonstrate safe and effective autonomous practice across the full scope of the role.
- Receive regular supervision, mentorship, and support from your line manager and the wider team.
Once all competencies have been successfully completed and signed off, you will progress to a Band 6 Senior Primary Care Nurse position. It is expected that progression will be achieved within 12–18 months, depending on individual readiness and development progress.
If you are a newly qualified nurse, you will also complete the Trust’s 12-month Preceptorship Programme and Band 5 Development Programme alongside your service-specific competencies.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please see the job description for further duties.
Main Responsibility
- Plan, deliver and evaluate clinically appropriate interventions using evidence-based guidance and practice.
- Set up processes/protocols for effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for those patients with physical, mental health and substance misuse.
- Safeguard vulnerable patients in line with CNWL Trust safeguarding policies.
- Apply local risk assessment and management.
- Make appropriate referrals to other services for long-term or complex care management.
- Co-ordinate multi-disciplinary clinical practice to provide focused and integrated care treatment programs/packages.
- Use highly skilled interventions to de-escalate aggressive patient behaviours and be aware of the appropriate processes for dealing with.
- Work collaboratively with staff of other disciplines e.g. prison, education staff to provide integrated and coordinated.
- Work within own sphere of competency and ensure that training needs are communicated to the team.
Research and Audits
- Utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individuals.
- Assist in audits as per the annual planner or when requested to do so in order to develop and improve service provision.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
- Participate in regular clinical and managerial supervision in accordance with professional practice and CNWL guidelines.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Adult Nurse
- Evidence of personal and professional development in Nursing since Registration
Desirable criteria
- Post registration qualification appropriate to speciality
- Mentorship or practice assessor certification
- Chronic disease management or long-term condition qualification
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Practical experience of providing high-quality care and exceeding expectations.
- Experience of providing and receiving supervision
- Experience of running clinics
Desirable criteria
- Experience of systmone IT system
- Experience of working within a secure environment / prison
Skills, Knowledge, Abilities
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of medication rounds and the safe storage and administration of drugs.
- Knowledge of clinical audit process and an ability to use audit tools.
- Ability to assess plans, implement and evaluate patient care & act accordingly if untoward changes occurred.
- Knowledge of risk assessment and management and its implementation.
- Able to use computer software packages such as MS Word and Excel.
- Demonstrates the ability to manage work under pressure.
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
- Knowledge of patient confidentiality.
- Understand the different roles of the multi-disciplinary team and own role within it.
- Ability to demonstrate evidence-based practice & understanding of clinical governance in maintaining quality of care.
- Ability to provide and accept feedback, support, clinical/managerial supervision.
- Knowledge of current developments in specialist clinical area.
- Committed to personal/professional development.
- Flexible approach to work including both day and night shifts where night shifts occur.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership skills
Other
Essential criteria
- Motivated to maintain the highest standards in a changing service.
- Willingness to undertake further training relevant to clinical area.
- Able to recognise signs of stress in self & others.
- Ability to understand and implement the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the job.
- Ability to understand and implement the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the job.
- The post holder must have the ability to understand and implement the equal opportunities policy at a level appropriate to the job.
- Ability to promote anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practices.
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