The closing date is 19 October 2025
Salary
£37,259 to £45,356 a year pa inc
Job summary
- To work under the direction of senior staff to deliver and constantly strive to improve the offender healthcare services.
- To provide mental health care based on the principles of timely, comprehensive assessment and evidence based practice.
- To reduce or mitigate the effects of unhealthy or high risk behaviours (ACCT)
- To promote effective links with health and related services in the community to ensure continuity of care as appropriate (Care program Approach, CPA)
Main duties of the job
- To be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway.
- To be required to undertake training to maximise uptake of screening, health promotion and prevention activity, including vaccinations.
- To ensure a named care co-ordinator is allocated for every patient with complex needs who will ensure a proactive, evidence-based approach to clinical interventions, health promotion/prevention activity, and management of acute and long-term conditions using our stepped care approach.
- To ensure that a single, integrated, care plans developed, and the individualised care is regularly reviewed.
- To ensure that a comprehensive risk assessments and care plans are regularly reviewed in a needs-led review cycle.
- To ensure a care coordination criteria and MDT meetings for patients with complex needs will be tailored to the needs of the establishment.
- To ensure that they undertake all training in evidence-based CBT approaches, to enhance consistency and quality of care delivery.
- To support patients to manage their health at every stage, from oral health to long term conditions.
- To ensure that health promotion embedded into every aspect of the service.
Job responsibilities
- Acts as an advocate and champion for offenders.
- Act as a role model to team members and students so that offenders always receive best practice care.
- To support senior staff in the development of high-quality mental health care through the effective assessment, development and implementation programs. To assess care needs and provide high quality nursing care as a member of a multi-disciplinary team for offenders who have mental health care needs utilising the CPA processes and risk assessment & care planning.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide:
- Proof of right to work documentation
- Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
- Proof of address documentation
- Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
Address History:
5 years address history will be needed.
Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be soughtfrom:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).
Person Specification
NMC Registration
Essential
- RMN
- 1 years post registration experience
- Worked in a forensic setting
Desirable
- Worked in a prison setting
- Experience of Systm One and IT applications
Documentation
Essential
- An ability to assess risk and care-plan effectively
- An understanding of the 1983 Mental Health Act and subsequent mental health legislation
Desirable
- Strong Computer and IT skills.
- ability to work with complex needs
Essential
- Ability to work in a challenging secure environment, and adhere to all security requirements of the prison.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation, national initiatives and guidance, and of own professional code of, role and responsibilities
Desirable
- Demonstrate a knowledge of Prison Service objectives and principles
- Ability to manage complex & challenging behaviour
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).