Band 6 CPN - Prison Services

​Our clients are urgently seeking to recruit a

Locum Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse to join their Mental Health Team - Prison Services

Hours: Monday-Sunday Pro Rata 9:00am-5:00pm and 7:30am-8:00pm

Job Overview

• The ideal candidate will need to ensure they are operating in line with the New Models of care by providing a high standard to individuals within our prison settings who are presenting with mental health problems.

• The post holder will work with staff across healthcare and the wider prison establishment, providing specialist advice particularly to GPs in the assessment and treatment of patients on the prison residential wings.

• The successful candidate will need to adapt to and embrace a recovery and enablement model to seamlessly realign prisoners with mental health problems alongside their local community-based mental health service upon release from prison. 

• The Mental Health Nurse (Care co-ordinator) will be a qualified RMN with experience in Mental Health, knowledge and experience of forensic mental health service provision and offender care.

Prison vetting service preferred

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If you are interested in this exciting opportunity and would like to find out more, please call 01322 282470. Alternatively, you can reach the recruitment team via e-mail at recruitment@westmeriarecruitment.co.uk

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