Senior Mental Health Nurse - HMP

Join Our Friendly Team as a Senior 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

If you are committed to delivering compassionate, high-quality mental health care and want to join a team where your expertise truly matters, apply now!

Main Responsibilities

• 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.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were 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 well need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

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As a Senior Mental Health Nurse you'll be part of our valued team based at HMP Chelmsford. You will feel valued as a Mental Health Nurse, within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £40,853.33 - £48,960.00 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…