Registered Nurse Associate - HMP The Verne

Are you collaborative, caring, and compassionate?

If you are a qualified Nursing Associate then we’d love to hear from you!

You will be a qualified Nursing Associate who can demonstrate entry to the NMC register with a real passion for developing your clinical skills in an environment that is ever-changing as some of your responsibilities will include completing wing medication rounds, primary care clinics, and emergency response.

You’ll have a flexible approach to working within a team that encourages new ideas and opinions on how to improve the service.

You will be providing outstanding evidence-based case to our patients seeking out, listening to and acting on their feedback so that care is personalised and informed by what matters to them. You will contribute to and implement care packages, assist with health promotion, well-being and clinics as well as assisting patients with activities of daily living and personal care.

Throughout this position, you will deliver non-judgemental care involving anything from health promotion clinics and observations to supporting the nursing and pharmacy teams in primary care within healthcare centres and on wings and house blocks. You’ll make a real difference as defined throughout our bespoke Health in Justice Competency Framework following our policies, procedures and always considering safeguarding.

Inspire excellence by forging strong links within our teams, our partners, and stakeholders and providing a service that people can trust, feel safe within, and feel proud of as well as promoting best practice, evidence-based care, and continuous quality improvement embedding a culture of shared learning. You will promote patient well-being through our overarching Well-being Approach, demonstrating empathy and understanding to our patients.

Interested in clinical development?

We could give you the opportunity to develop into a specialist role of your interest and benefit to the service i.e. Long term conditions, sexual health, health promotion, phlebotomy, vaccinations, suturing, wound care, RCGP.

As a qualified Nursing Associate joining Practice Plus Group, we will offer you a Registered Professional competency framework to support you in your new role.

We also offer all our new clinical staff the opportunity to undertake our bespoke university accredited course around working within Health in Justice.

In return for your hard work you will...

Receive an annual salary of up to £25,000, dependent on experience. You'll also get a number of benefits including a company contributory pension scheme, 25 days annual leave - increasing with service up to 28 days per year + bank holidays, CPD and re-validation support.

Other benefits include cycle to work scheme plus training and clinical development opportunities.

This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per weekdays per week, including and weekends. The salary is up to £25,000 per annum dependent on experience.

Prisons are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work - if you’re looking for a role where you can develop your existing skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this is the place to be. Practice Plus Group is Health in Justice Market leader, providing healthcare services to offenders across the country. Our model of care is our Wellbeing Approach – an integrated, comprehensive approach in recognition of the fact prisoners are a socially-excluded group with healthcare needs that are complex and often associated with poor outcomes. It adopts the premise that no single health/well-being factor can be taken in isolation from other motivational issues that might impact a person’s care.