Band 6 RMN/Staff Nurse

Trust: Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust

Location: Featherstone/Wolverhampton for both Prisons

HMP Swinfen Hall are looking for a Band 6 Staff Nurse (Prisons) to support their team on a three month placement.

• Band 6 Staff Nurse (Prisons)
• Full time: Monday - Friday
• 09:00 - 17:00
• HMP Oakwood and/or Brinsford
• Prison clearance and System 1 trained

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Clinical

• 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.

RESPONSIBLE FOR:

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.

if you require additional information please contact: 01785 246434 opt.1 opt.3 or email: Jamie.Redpath@medacs.com