Job summary
Join our friendly team as aRegistered Mental Health Nurse Team Leaderat 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 work08:00 18:00 Days (4 days a week following a rota pattern)
Please note that this is subject to a clear DBS check with no criminal convictions.
Main duties of the job
To provide high quality planned and urgent mental health support to prisoners within a secure setting. 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.
The Mental Health Team Leader will be responsible for the day to day operational management of the service reporting to the Mental Health Clinical Lead.
The role will involve integrated working alongside multi professionals within the whole prison setting not just healthcare.
- Provide support and leadership to all staff on your shift ensuring day to day functions are maintained
- Complete the induction training for new starters and mentor the end of probation.
- Providing training/supervision to clinical and non-clinical staff where appropriate.
- Provide regular supervision and annual appraisals to identified staff
- Ensure staff rotas are fully maintained and the correct skill mix is always available
- Deputise for the Mental Health Clinical Lead when required
- Carry your own caseload and directly distribute prisoners to the team for caseload management
- 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
About us
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.
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 https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will feel valued as the Mental Health Team Leader within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- A salary of £39,000 - £40,000
- 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
- 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
The Ideal Candidate
- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
- Ability to build and develop relationships
- Strong leadership and management skills
- Strong customer service skills
- Must be confident and capable of autonomous practice
- Registered RMN with current NMC PIN
- Experience in a Prison environment highly desirable
- Excellent mental health examination skills
- Experience of venepuncture and multi-site injections
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary/professional team
- Up to date DBS
- Worked as a staff nurse for at least 12 months
Person Specification
General Requirements
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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.
Employer details
Employer name
HCRG Care Group
Address
HCRG Care Group
Chelmsford
Essex
CM2 6JT