Senior Mental Health Nurse

Lead a multi-disciplinary team to deliver a nurse led service and prevent hospital admissions.

• You will undertake medication rounds, dispense controlled medication
• Attend emergency response situations
• Assess patients, and undertake reception screening.
• You will assess patient's health needs using an evidence based framework and be able to risk assess use sound clinical knowledge.
• You will ensure that you a ssess physical and mental health of prisoners on admission to the prison and throughout their period of custody so that any appropriate referral can be made.
• You will also be responsible for making a clinical judgement with regard to any immediate need and long term treatment.
  
  Practice Plus Group is a specialist provider of NHS services into prison healthcare across over 45 different prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We believe in putting the patient first, regardless of the environment or their history. The prison population is one of the most vulnerable and challenged patient groups in society and the delivery of their health care is conducted within often difficult and demanding environments.
• You will be a qualified Registered Nurse (Mental Health) with a real passion for developing your clinical skills in an environment that is ever changing. You'll have a flexible approach working within a team that encourage new ideas and opinions on how to improve the service. You will have either have experience within clinical management or be ready to take the next step in your career towards leading a team of clinical professionals.
HMP Lewes is a local category B men's prison for those on remand to local courts, sentenced and those awaiting release. Practice Plus Group's mission is Access to Excellence. Our core values are;
• we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
• we act with integrity
• we embrace diversity
• we strive to do things better together
Patients can only access excellence if we commit to living our values in everything we do when we're at work. If you share these values and have transferable skills we want to meet you!

Due to HMP Lewes holding remand prisoners, we do require staff to work on a rota basis and you can be asked to work nights, bank holidays and weekends although if you are looking for flexibility we can discuss this at interview stage. You'll receive an annual salary up to £52,507 per annum - depending on experience How will we support you?
• Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course
• Competency framework
• Regional and national career development opportunities
• Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
• Support from the wider team
Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks What you'll be doing