Are you hungry for the opportunity to be part of something exciting?

HMP Peterborough are recruiting for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner. 

You will have the opportunity not only to utilise your current Nursing skills whilst providing the best possible care to your patients but you will also have the opportunity to work as part of a multidisciplinary team across the prison setting promoting a holistic approach to treatment offered to patients in your care.

You will be a role model for the nursing staff team and lead by example.  You will have the opportunity to grow and develop others by means of clinical supervision, training and development.

Sodexo Justice Services have provided Healthcare within Prison environments for over 10 years and have learnt and developed how to adapt care in a challenging environment to ensure patients are at the centre of every decision and intervention. If you too would like to enhance your existing skills by Nursing in an environment like no other, then you need to read on.

Sodexo Justice Services prides itself upon a holistic model of care that promotes well being from the inside out. Working with people who have wide range of needs from Mental Health, Substance Misuse, Primary Care and Complex needs. By maximising the opportunity for a full Medical Assessment whilst in custody we prepare patients to be in the best possible condition for when they leave prison. With the aim of reducing the risk of re offending behaviour.

HMP/YOI Peterborough is the country’s only purpose-built prison for both male and female prisoners (kept separate at all times), including a 12-place mother and baby unit. We are committed to offering education and development programmes to provide residents with the skills required to enter employment on release, so reducing the chances of further offending. Providing creative outlets, such as workshop activities, helps to equip those in custody for when they are released. We use ‘Restorative Approaches’ to bring people in conflict into dialogue. Using a skilled and structured process, those who have been harmed have an opportunity to be heard and those that have caused the harm are held to account for what they have done. We have strong links with the community outside through a variety of partnerships, including our outreach activity Outside Links’ offering support and advice to both residents and their families.

The following are the core responsibilities of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner:

• Assist with the prescribing practices and support of the NMP clinicians within the services.
• Develop, implement and embed health promotion and well-being programmes.
• Assist the nursing team to manage patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions, providing subject matter expert advice to patients
• Implement and evaluate individual specialized treatment plans for chronic disease patients
• Identify, manage and support patients as risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patient’s health
• Provide advanced, specialist nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
• Deliver medicines management and enhance safe prescribing in the custodial environment
• Provide specialist clinics.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Valid NMC registration (Adult Nursing)
• Excellent leadership skills
• Commitment to the delivery of high-quality services
• Previous qualified experience as a registered general nurse
• Post graduate diploma or degree (Advanced Practice Qualification)
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs
• Understands the requirement for PGDs and associated policy
• Understands the importance of evidence-based practice
• Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
• Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews

Desirable

• Experience of working in custodial environment
• Minor Illness Qualification
• Mentorship/ ENB Qualification or working towards
• Clinical Supervisor
• SystmOne Knowledge
• RCA Trained

Package Description

• Excellent salary - £42,500 - £50,000 per annum
• 25 days holiday plus 8 days bank holidays, this increases to 28 days plus 8 days bank holiday after 3 years of service. There is also the option to purchase up to an additional 5 days holiday.
• Maternity Pay – 12 weeks full pay reducing to 12 weeks half pay and bonus after 5 years’ service of 4 weeks’ pay.
• Sick pay - Full pay for 4 weeks from 3 months service increasing with service length to full pay for 12 weeks with over 5 years’ service
• Free on-site parking and free meals while on duty
• Long service award
• Free CPD
• Access to Sodexo Discounts – wide range of Holiday, travel and retail discounts
• Contribution up to half of your NMC registration fees.
• Subsidised gym membership.
• 37.5 hours per week - Shift Patterns, Days, Nights, Weekends, Bank Holidays

For more information and to apply, please click the apply button.