Registered Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

Are you an experienced RMN (Registered Mental Health Nurse) looking to advance and diversify your career as a nurse? Why not break into prison healthcare?

Our Integrated Mental Health and Substance Misuse Team at HMP Swinfen Hall is looking for a dynamic and experienced registered mental health nurse. Our team is innovative, forward thinking and committed to a recovery focused approach.

This is an exciting and diverse role for an individual who is passionate about providing excellent quality nursing care. You will have the privilege to influence and shape the provision of high-quality mental health care to some of society’s most vulnerable members.

If you:

• are an RMN who has a flexible approach, with a drive to clinically innovate;
• share our values and are committed to providing high quality care and developing your skills;
• have confidence in dealing with a wide range of situations and working with partner agencies to provide the best care to people within the prison;
• are enthusiastic about working within an ever-changing prison environment;
• enjoy collaborating and working within a full multi-disciplinary team to ensure varied and comprehensive interventions are delivered in-line with the stepped care model;
• have an excellent working knowledge of the Mental Health Act and its application to prisoners who require transfer to hospital;

then this job is for you!

Main duties of the job

Provision of mental health interventions to Service Users within the prison establishment across wellbeing, primary and secondary mental health.

This will involve being responsible for managing their own caseload, including assessments, care planning, delivering interventions and reviewing care of patients located within the prison with a mental illness, within the framework of the multi-disciplinary team and Care Programme Approach.

Post holders are expected to work as an integral member of the multi-disciplinary, multi-agency team to provide advice and support to primary health care based within the prison and to liaise with and provide advice and support to statutory and non-statutory agencies. To provide specialist mental health interventions to service users in the prison.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities. A summary is as follows:

• To be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidenced based interventions required including health promotion within a prison environment.
• To provide a nursing service to prisoners taking account of cultural and spiritual beliefs/needs.
• To be responsible for the appropriate risk assessment of service users, providing effective advice, guidance and decision-making process.
• Responsible for coordinating the care and assessment under the care coordination approach.
• To ensure a high standard of nursing in the application of clinical nursing procedures and treatment including the custody storage and administration of drugs.
• Responsible for participating in the setting of quality standards, including auditing, monitoring and reviewing of clinical practice in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.