Practice Nurse

About The Role

UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE
+ MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO EVERY LIFE
We have an exciting opportunity for a Practice Nurse to join our team at HMP Altcourse, a category B prison located in the Fazakerley area of Liverpool. 

This is a rotational RGN role within a busy remand prison. You will be expected to cover medication administration, triage, and emergency care alongside your role as Public Health Nurse. This is a crucial role within the team, with exposure to various different areas of healthcare.

Hours:
 

This role is offered on a full time basis, 37.5 hours per week working, 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday (including Bank Holidays).

Salary:
This position is full time, you'll receive an annual salary up to £41,659 
per annum - depending on experience.

How will we support you?

• Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course

• Competency framework

• Regional and national career development opportunities

• Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs

• Support from the wider team

Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.
What you'll be doing

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

What we'll look for in you

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.

Our new Practice Nurse will:

• 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

Secure environments 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 healthcare skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this could be the right opportunity for you.