Practice Nurse

As our new Practice Nurse, you will have varying responsibilities. Some of your duties will include:

• Working within Public Health, Triage, and Meds - this is a very varied role!
• Lead on prevention, promotion and protection of our prison communities 
• Lead health promotion activities, delivering proactive clinics and awareness campaigns, provide health promotion and disease prevention advice
• Conduct IPC audits and training on site
• Ensure the effective and consistent delivery of national screening programmes, health checks, screening and recording public health activity 
• conducting long-term condition reviews such as diabetic, asthmatic and COPD annual reviews, including spirometry.
• Sexual health assessments
• immunisations and vaccinations.

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.

It doesn’t stop there… we also offer:

• Company pension scheme
• 25 days annual leave increasing with service up to 28 days per year, plus public bank holidays
• An extensive range of wellbeing and lifestyle benefits
• Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
• Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
• Excellent long-term career prospects
• 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We’re the UK’s 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 Group’s 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.

• Be an RGN with NMC Registration 
• Have training in immunisations and vaccinations
• ideally should hold formal, recognised training qualifications such as STIFF and BASH
• Although not essential, UKPHR registration would be beneficial, as would any Public Health Qualification, or an Infection Prevention and Control Qualification 
• Have knowledge of Public Health issues, and infection prevention and control measures