The successful candidate will engage in various nursing duties, including administering medication, conducting health promotion clinics, and supporting patients requiring mental health or substance misuse interventions. Furthermore, the nurse will maintain accurate records, assist with wound care, and facilitate a seamless discharge process for patients. This position offers the chance to make a meaningful impact on the health and wellbeing of young individuals during their stay and beyond, while also contributing to the development of an integrated healthcare service in a secure environment.
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner. We have a Health and Justice Services Directorate, within which sits the 'Children and Young People' Service line working in partnership with 'Youth Custody Service' colleagues to provide trauma-informed primary care, mental health, neuro-developmental and substance misuse services to the young people and young adults within our care.
It is our quest to deliver patient-focused, developmentally appropriate, quality care; promoting a trauma informed environment together with our operational colleagues and supporting young people and young adults to understand their own health and wellbeing needs and maximise all opportunities to achieve their own health and personal goals during their stay and beyond.
We are looking to recruit motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Band 5 Nurses to join our Integrated Healthcare Service at HMP YOI Feltham. Feltham is effectively two separate establishments delivering healthcare services to young people in Feltham A (15-19 years) and young adults in Feltham B (18-25 years). These two separate cohorts have slightly different needs and we are looking for staff that understand their needs and work in line with 'Child First' principles. By joining our team, you will not only look after the healthcare needs of the young people/young adults we care for, but also have the opportunity to have a real impact on promoting health and well-being for this population.
The post holder will be Registered Adult or Children's Nurse, working as part of an excellent primary care team, carrying out a range of clinical activities in a secure environment where the young person/young adult is put first.
The post holder will often be the first point of contact for the healthcare needs through initial assessment, screening and/or triage of young people/young adults in accordance with specific standard operating procedures. The successful candidate will assess, plan and implement care for patients within each care/treatment pathway in order to promote wellbeing, facilitating the use of evidence-based practice to ensure clinical care is both effective and appropriate to the young person/young adult.
The post holder will carry out general nursing duties, maintain contemporaneous records, support their colleagues and make a professional contribution to the development of an integrated healthcare service.
The post holder will also act as a preceptor/mentor according to experience.
Essential Requirements
- Registered (NMC) nurse Adult or Children's Nurse
- Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicine
- Previous experience of working in Primary Care services either as a band 5 nurse or a student nurse
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- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for patients using agreed Patient Group Directives or care pathways where appropriate.
- Plans and organises own workload without direct supervision in order to meet the requirements of the
- Administer medication as prescribed, which may include oral, immunisations, intramuscular injections, insulin or nebulisers, and may be compounded by frequent unplanned interruptions such as other demanding patients, staff
- Treat where possible (e.g. Hep B and Flu vaccines, minor ailments), referring on to other departments, clinical specialists or any other appropriate person as
- Ensure that those identified as requiring specialist input such as mental health or substance misuse, are referred in as timely a manner as possible and that relevant paperwork is completed and care pathway communicated to relevant staff, taking due account of the sensitivity of any information shared with non healthcare professionals who have to manage the women on the
- For those identified as being at risk of self-harm, complete an ACCT document following a thorough assessment and communicate concerns to the appropriate member of
- Provide appropriate and timely health promotion interventions to the women and advise staff
- Participate in health promotion/harm minimisation clinics in specific disease related areas, ensuring that clinics run smoothly and meet national and local priorities and guidelines e.g.
- Smoking cessation
- Hepatitis B
- Sexual health
- Diabetes
- Asthma
- Coronary Heart Disease
- Will be required to take, collect or transport specimens such as blood, wound swabs or urine.
- Will be required to undertake wound dressings.
- Ensure that women being discharged back to the community have sufficient medication and a discharge letter summarising their care package for their
- Carry out CPR when required and make best use of the emergency equipment such as the
- Attend case conferences as required for patients with challenging behaviour or those on ACCT
- Undertake such other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time, which are consistent with the responsibilities and grade of the post. This may include providing cover for other units and/or
6. Working Conditions
- Staff may be exposed to distressing or emotional circumstances such is information regarding patients criminal behaviour or occasionally exposed to distressing episodes of self
- Staff will be required to concentrate for periods of time where the work is unpredictable.
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