HCRG Care Group
Mental Health Team Lead
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Job Introduction
Package Description
As a Mental Health Team Lead you will be part of our valued team based in our HMP Chelmsford Prison, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £40,853.33 - £48,960 depending on experience, and Group Pension
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
Job Introduction
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Registered Mental Health Nurse Team Lead to join our friendly team at HCRG Care Group based in HMP Chelmsford.
Playing an integral role within our prison service, which aims to ensure primary care is at the heart of our everyday role, working as part of a team delivering care to patients both within the Healthcare Centre and on the wings within the prison environment.
HMP Chelmsford is a busy local Category B prison, holding adult male prisoners on remand and recently sentenced. With a high turnover of prisoners presenting complex mental health, substance misuse, and self-harm needs, it offers healthcare professionals a challenging yet highly rewarding environment to make a real difference at a critical point in people's lives.
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This is a real opportunity to shape mental health provision, work as part of a strong and supportive multidisciplinary team, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable individuals within the criminal justice system.
You will work 07:30- 16:00, Monday to Fridays.
Please note that this is subject to a clear DBS check with no criminal convictions.
A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.
Main Responsibilities
To provide high quality planned and urgent mental health support to prisoners within a secure setting. This energetic and diverse role is part of a multi professional workforce delivering care to patients both within the Enhanced Care Unit, Residential Wings and all other areas that prisoners have daily access to such as workshops.
The Mental Health Team Leader will be responsible for the day-to-day operational management of the service reporting to the Head of Mental Health.
The role will involve integrated working alongside multi professionals within the whole prison setting not just healthcare.
Ideal Candidate
Essential
- Registered mental Health Nurse with current NMC PIN
- Experience in managing a team and leading the mental health area of a Healthcare service
- Excellent clinical examination skills
- Experience of Audits
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Desirable
- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
- Experience in a Prison environment highly desirable
- Ability to build and develop relationships
- Strong leadership and management skills
- Strong customer service skills
- Must be confident and capable of autonomous practice
About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
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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’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
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