Join Our Friendly Team as a Registered Mental Health Nurse at HMP Chelmsford
About the Role:
As a Registered Mental Health Nurse, you will play a vital role in supporting the mental health and wellbeing of individuals within the prison environment. You'll provide assessment, treatment, and ongoing care for prisoners facing a variety of mental health challenges. This is a rare opportunity to make a meaningful difference in a dynamic and challenging setting.
What We Offer:
* A supportive and friendly team environment
* A chance to develop your skills in a unique healthcare setting
* Meaningful work that truly impacts lives
Working Hours:
* Standard shift: 08:00 – 18:00 (Days)
* Rotational late shift coverage: 10:00 – 20:00
* Contract Type: Permanent, 40 hours
Main duties of the job
* To provide high quality planned and urgent mental health support to prisoners within a secure setting, this includes supporting RMNS with emergency alarms within the prison.
* This energetic and diverse role is part of a multi professional workforce delivering care to patients both within the Enhanced Care Unit, Residential Wings and all other areas that prisoners have daily access to such as workshops.
* As an RMN you will carry a caseload of patients and will be responsible for assessment and treatment of those patients.
* This will involve being part of the case management team in ACCT reviews.
* The role will involve integrated working alongside multi professionals within the whole prison setting not just healthcare
* Provide support and to all staff on your shift ensuring day to day functions are maintained
* Complete the induction training for new starters and be an appointed mentor the end of probation.
* Providing supervision to clinical and non-clinical staff where appropriate.
* Carry your own caseload
* Assess patients, plan their care, administer treatment and discharge or refer them as appropriate to other healthcare professionals or external agencies.
* Be a team member in all ACCT reviews and advise the prison with direct reference to the prisoners mental health
* Assess prisoners fitness for detention, release or transfer.
* Assess alcohol and drug intoxication and withdrawal.
Salary & Benefits
* A salary of £32,648.00 – £39,177.60 with access to our group pension
* Receive a competitive salary enhancement for working weekend and night shift patterns
* Company Policy Sick pay
* Enhanced Maternity Package
* Life Assurance
* Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
* Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
* Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
* An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
Essential Experience / Qualifications
* Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) with active PIN
* All candidates are subject to prison vetting checks
* Ability to work effectively as part of a multi professional team within a fast-paced environment
* Experience in a Prison environment
* Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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