Senior Nurse RGN - Band 6 - HMP Elmley - £35,706 - £42,588 pa inc

We currently have fantastic opportunity for two Senior Nurses to join the team at HMP Elmley in Kent. Within this post you will provide a quality primary care service and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. You will support junior colleagues, assist & support the Primary Care Leads (Band 7s) as directed to deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care for offenders. Patient focused with health promotion at the heart of our care. You will put the right staff in the right place at the right time liaising with your colleagues in specialist posts to ensure that experience is on hand to lead and support patients e.g., leads in learning disability, long term conditions, older adults, complex case practitioners and discharge coordinators. By being highly supportive of clinical and prison staff with training and support you will enable the team to work smarter and as part of an effective Multi Professional Team. The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgments and have decision making skills. To deliver high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison. This will include acute & primary care, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators and National Service Frameworks. To demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality and outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis. To support the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.