Vacancies

BANK Mental Health Nurse - HMP Chelmsford

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.
• Carry out a first reception health screen, which occurs when a person enters the prison. You must have the ability to make appropriate recommendations on immediate prisoner care.
• Provide professional advice and support to Paramedics, HCA’s and non-clinical staff to ensure effective health care in line with current best practice.
• Maintain complete and accurate clinical records using the electronic records system (S1)
• Undertake and support in clinical audits.
• Provide written statements as required and to give oral testimony as required in any Court or Tribunal
• Undertake all duties as required of a Healthcare Professional in HMP Chelmsford and to comply with the competencies, knowledge, and skills framework of the Department of Health
• Comply with all requirements and/or legislation of the post
• Carry out any other activity or action appropriate to the role of a Prison RMN as required

Contract Specific

• No parking available on site but there are car parks located in walking distance

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 on the Hourly salary of £19.00. 

As well as the attractive hourly rates of pay, you’ll also benefit from:

• Self-booking and access to all bank shifts! Staff are given access to all Bank shifts within their Business Unit and can self-book providing they meet the shift requirements.
• Request a Duty – Staff can make shifts or Day Off requests prior to the creation of a roster up to six weeks in advance. This helps promote a better work life balance and allows for personal commitments to be met
• HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream - which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
• Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards
• Opportunities to work in different areas and various different services to gain new knowledge and experience
• Access to our Strive for Better networks, a national support and professional network made up of NHS professionals like you, giving you the chance to constantly develop industry-leading care and quality
• Access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
• Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
• Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives

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 every-one 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.