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Job Introduction
Are you a compassionate and resilient Registered Mental Health Nurse looking to make a meaningful impact? Join our dedicated healthcare team at HMP Chelmsford, where your skills and commitment will directly contribute to the wellbeing of individuals in a secure and structured environment.
Job Introduction
Are you a compassionate and resilient Registered Mental Health Nurse looking to make a meaningful impact? Join our dedicated healthcare team at HMP Chelmsford, where your skills and commitment will directly contribute to the wellbeing of individuals in a secure and structured environment.
As part of a multidisciplinary team, you'll play a crucial role in delivering high-quality mental health care, supporting rehabilitation, and promoting recovery for some of society's most vulnerable individuals.
Location: HMP Chelmsford, Essex
Hours: Full-time | 08:00 – 18:00 (Days) + scheduled 10:00 – 20:00 shifts on rotation
Contract Type: Permanent, 40 hours
Salary: £35,000 - £38,000
Main Responsibility
* 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 prisoner’s fitness for detention, release or transfer.
* Assess alcohol and drug intoxication and withdrawal.
The Ideal Candidate
Person Specification
* Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
* Ability to build and develop relationships
* Must be confident and capable of autonomous practice and able to work independently
* To act as a patients advocate in a non-judgemental manner
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
Desirable Experience
* Experience in a Prison environment
* Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Package Description
As “Mental Health Nurse”, you’ll be part of our valued team:
* Salary depending on experience £35,000.00 to £38,000.00 with group pension
* 240 hours Annual Leave
* Company Policy Sick pay
* Enhanced Maternity Package
* Life Assurance
* 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
About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
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