Senior Inpatient Nurse

As an Senior Inpatient Nurse your responsibilities will vary. You will

• You will be innovative, bringing fresh ideas and solutions to the challenges of providing healthcare in a prison
• See patients at beginning and end of their time in prisons, both are times of transition in the community and require a coordinated approach to continuity of care with other services
• Closely with external stakeholders to develop pathways that prevent patients having to attend outside hospital including but not exclusively end of life care and acute care.
•  Assist with the development of patients medical plans of care, line manage a team of healthcare practitioners ensuring that they are supported and appraised
• Ability to function autonomously and within your sphere of competency, working within a team of healthcare practitioners you must be able to prioritise your own workload, caseload and be able to demonstrate the ability to problem solve.
  

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:

• Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
• Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development

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.

• Registered nurse NMC adult / mental health, or Paramedic 
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development
• Excellent communication skills
• Good IT skills and IT literacy
• Ability to work within a busy environment
• Ability to work unsupervised whilst following policy and procedures

Although not essential ideal applicants would have experience in a hospital, community or prison environment.