About this role
Job summary
Are you an exceptional Staff Nurse yearning to develop your existing skills in a diverse but supportive area?
Are you looking for a rewarding new challenge and can adapt to a busy, fast paced and unique environment?
Are you a driven, flexible and highly motivated Newly Qualified (or soon to be) who is passionate about high quality care delivery?
If any or a combination of these statements define you, then this may be the right role crafted just for you!
In our Pursuit to improve clinical outcomes for a complex patient population, we are looking to recruit a high calibre and enthusiastic RMN staff nurse to work HMP Wormwood Scrubs.
Prison nursing is both challenging & rewarding, where no two days are the same!You will need a good understanding of both the needs and challenges facing patients with multiple needs in a secure setting. The variation ensures the environment is not monotonous, keeping tasks stimulating alongside the support needed to deliver the best care possible.
Main duties of the job
The role will mostly involve working in a multi-disciplinary team of consultant forensic psychiatrist, occupational therapists RMNs healthcare assistants and dedicated prison officers supporting mental health and physical health service users. H3 Healthcare unit is a 17 bedded healthcare ward. The unit provides both mental and physical healthcare to service users who cannot be appropriately supported on the prison's ordinary wings. The unit has 12 beds for mental health needs and 5 beds for physical health needs
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. Why NLFT?
We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities. We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives. NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme Excellent internal staff network The post holder will be aligned with our values:
We Are Kind We Are Respectful We Work Together We Keep Things Simple We Empower We Are Proudly Diverse In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Job description Job responsibilities
Act as primary nurse for a defined group of patients and liaises with the associate nurses to ensure a consistent approach to delivering care.
Assess plan, implement and evaluate the care provided especially with regard to identifying and managing risk.
Accept responsibility for the implementation of the Care Programme Approach with their primary patients.
Encourage patients to accept an optimum level of responsibility for their individual programmes.
Enter and maintain records using electronic and paper-based systems.
Works in partnership with Healthcare Officers & other healthcare Depts to ensure that patients needs are addressed, and to maximise the time out of cell and range of activities available for patients.
Treat prisoners and service users with fairness and respect, maintaining confidentiality appropriately.
Develop strategies for dealing with disturbed behaviour especially the ability to recognise and respond to signs of imminent disturbance.
Assist the inpatients manager and charge nurses in maintaining standards of care and participate in evaluation studies and projects as required.
To keep up to date with developments and research in mental health nursing and applies relevant to practice.
Participates in the running of therapeutic service user groups and provide a recovery focus approach to deliver care.
To be fully involved in presentations in ward rounds, handovers and other meetings where service user care is discussed and reviewed.
To expedite and participate in the assessment, admission, transfer and discharge of patients according to local guidelines and standards.
Ensure that as a nurse they understand the confidential nature of their work and their responsibilities as identified in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
To ensure the safe custody of drugs and that they are ordered and administered accordingly to Trust policies and the Misuse of Drugs Act.
To maintain an effective working knowledge of the administrative requirements and needs of patients detained under the Mental Health Act (1983).
To demonstrate specialist knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended by MHA 2007).
Person Specification
RMN Essential
RMN
Desirable
12 months experience
Experience Essential
Working with service users with SMI
Desirable
PICU / Forensic experience
Working collaboratively with our service users Essential
Ability to formulate care plans and packages of care
Desirable
Previous experience of formulating care plans and packages of care with service users
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address HMP Wormwood Scrubs
Du Cane Road
Acton
W12 0AE
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)