Job Introduction
Join our friendly team as a Nursing Associate at HMP Chelmsford.
You will play an integral role within our prison service, which aims to ensure primary care is at the heart of our everyday role, working as part of a team delivering care to patients both within the Healthcare Centre and on the Wings / House blocks within the prison environment.
You will work 2 week fixed rota pattern based on 12 hour days.
About our prisons service:
We operate round-the-clock, nurse-led healthcare including prisoner screening on arrival and all primary care such as minor surgery, in-patient units, and prescribing. We also coordinate a wide range of other service providers, such as GP practices, to provide seamless care.
The safety of our team and the people we look after, particularly the most vulnerable, is our priority and we work closely with prison management. We also maximise the amount of ‘wing-based’ care given, which not only helps us to reduce risk posed by moving prisoners, but also helps improve waiting times and reduce the number of missed appointments.
Our motivated teams are driven by our belief that if you are a prisoner, you should receive same level of healthcare that you would in the community. We know that improving prisoners’ short and long-term health reduces their likelihood of reoffending.
Main Responsibility
- To provide primary care services including the assessment of self-harming and serious injury. Some of those patients will also be suffering with mental health and substance misuse issues
- This role works as part of a team delivering care to patients both within the Healthcare Centre and on the Wings / House blocks within the prison environment.
- The role requires autonomous function and within the scope of competency, whilst being a support and resource to less experienced members of staff.
- Assess patients, plan their care, administer treatment and discharge or refer them as appropriate to other healthcare professionals or external agencies.
- Assess prisoner’s fitness for detention, release or transfer.
- Assess and refer to the correct team for alcohol and drug intoxication and withdrawal.
- Carry out first reception screening which is a clinical assessment when a person enters the prison. You must have the confidence to make appropriate recommendations on prisoner care and ensure appropriate referrals are made to keep the men safe.
- Make and maintain complete and accurate clinical records.
- Be responsible for the Emergency response radios and when allocated, attend all emergency calls on shift and be able to make rapid clinical decisions
- To partake in clinical consultations within the enhanced care unit
- Undertake and support in clinical audits
- Remain professional and unbiased to all in your care.
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
- We accept newly qualified nurses under preceptorship – Starting salary £30,000
Essential Experience / Qualifications
- Registered Nurse - Registered General Nurse or Registered Primary care Adult Nurse (RGN) 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
Package Description
You will feel valued as a Nursing Associate with HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- 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.
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