Inpatient Nurse
| Posting date: | 28 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, W12 0AN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | E0314-25-3505 |
Summary
As the Inpatients Nurse you will be innovative, bringing fresh ideas and solutions to the challenges of providing healthcare in a prison setting; you will support patients throughout their time within our service. Youll lead the development of individualised patients care plans, whilst collaboratively working alongside the inpatient team and championing clinical excellence. You should have the ability to function autonomously and within your sphere of competency, working within a team of healthcare practitioners you must be able to prioritise and manage your own workload and be able to demonstrate the ability to problem solve. You will have an adaptive communication style that enables effective communication with the senior management team, the prison staff and importantly the patients; as well as good communication links with external stakeholders importantly substance misuse and secondary mental health. You must be able to demonstrate critical thinking skills and decision making and ensure practice is evidence based. As the Inpatients Nurse you will contribute to our healthcare strategy and vision to; Provide outstanding evidence-based care to our patients, seeking out, listening to and acting on their feedback, so that care is personalised and informed by what matters to them. Deliver non-judgemental care that makes a real difference, as defined throughout our bespoke Health in Justice Competency framework. Inspire excellence by forging strong links with our partners and stakeholders and providing a service that people can trust, feel safe within, and feel proud of. Promote best practice, clinical supervision, evidence-based care and continuous quality improvement, embedding a culture of shared learning. Share knowledge, skills and expertise to ensure safe care, building strong multi-disciplinary teams and supporting each other to do a great job. Encourage a shared learning approach to teaching. You will You will be part of the Planned care team working under the integration and New Models of Care framework reporting to the Planned Care Clinical Lead. You will support patients on a daily basis to achieve their activities of daily living to ensure they have the best quality of life possible, ensuring collaborative delivery. - This will include supporting patients to live as independently as possible. This may include supporting them with social care and mobility needs, dietary requirements and reducing the risk of deterioration. - This will include completing and updating care plans weekly. - Completing daily observations and vital signs, and review of patients skin and pressure areas. - Weekly weights. - Monthly Waterlow, MUST, Falls assessments. - Wound care - Medication administration - Electrocardiogram Capture - Phlebotomy You will ensure quality care planning and continuity of care is achieved through improving relationships and communication with partners and other services. You will ensure any patient who are referred or currently under specialist services and care are followed up and use every opportunity to promote continuity of care. You will promote integrated working to deliver care and to ensure appropriate care planning. You will participate in completing audit schedules and quality service improvement plans to support quality care and service delivery. You will attend and contribute into any MDT meetings regarding patient care. You will ensure documentation is accurate and correct templates are used in your practice and consultations. You will use the most up to date evidence to support and guide your practice and identify any skills or knowledge gaps which need further training and support. these will be escalated to your line manager. You will be willing to undertake any training that is required to support the success of your role.