Mental Health Nurse - HMP Chelmsford

Join our friendly team as a Registered Mental Health Nurse at CRG Medical Services based in HMP Prison, Chelmsford.

Playing 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 08:00 - 18:00 Days. There will also be scheduled shifts of 10:00am - 20:00pm to cover the late shift between the team on a daily basis.

Main duties of the job

• To provide high quality planned and urgent mental health support to prisoners within a secure setting, including 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 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 at the end of probation.

About us

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.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit our website.

Job responsibilities

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.
• 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 as 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 ring-fenced innovation funding each year.

Person Specification

General Requirements

• Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site.

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.