Registered General Nurse (Band 5)

NHS; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a compassionate Band 5 Registered General Nurse to join their team in HMP Chelmsford. In this full-time role, you will deliver essential nursing care in a secure setting, providing support to a diverse patient population. The position requires a commitment to high-quality, person-centred care within a multidisciplinary team.

Benefits

Group pension

Sick pay policy

Enhanced maternity package

Life assurance

Discount and cashback hub

Access to earned wages

Qualifications

• NMC registered nurse with Band 5 experience.
• Ability to assess and manage self-harm and serious injuries.
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide primary care services in a prison environment.
• Administer treatment and manage discharge referrals.
• Support and guide less experienced staff.

Skills

Compassionate care

Patient assessment

Team collaboration

Mental health awareness

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a committed and compassionate Band 5 Registered General Nurse to join our healthcare team at HMP Chelmsford. This is an exciting opportunity to provide essential nursing care in a secure setting, making a real impact on the health and wellbeing of people in our care. Working within a supportive multidisciplinary team, you will deliver safe, effective, and person-centred care to a diverse patient group, helping to improve health outcomes in a unique environment.

Location: HMP Chelmsford, Essex

Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week

Days: 08:00 – 18:00

Join us and use your nursing skills where they matter most. Apply now to be part of our dedicated healthcare team.

Main duties of the job

• Provide primary care services including the assessment of self-harming and serious injury. Some patients may also be suffering with mental health and substance misuse issues.
• Work as part of a team delivering care to patients both within the Healthcare Centre and on the Wings/House blocks within the prison environment.
• Demonstrate autonomous function within the scope of competency, while supporting and providing guidance to less experienced staff.
• Assess patients, plan their care, administer treatment, and discharge or refer them as appropriate to other healthcare professionals or external agencies.
• Assess prisoners’ fitness for detention, release or transfer.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s 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 are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident Committed company, and we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we may close it earlier than the date shown. If you’re keen to join our team, please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit our site (note: URL removed).

Job responsibilities

As a Prison Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team:

• Salary: 35,000.00 to 38,000.00, with group pension
• Company policy sick pay
• Enhanced Maternity Package
• Life Assurance
• Membership of My Reward Hub, with discounts and cashback
• Access to wages as you earn them to help cover emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Support for mental and physical wellbeing, including resources on nutrition, activity, post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, career coaching and counselling

Disclosure and DBS check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.