Job summary
Join our friendly team as a Registered General Nurse Team Leader at HMP Chelmsford.
You will play an integral role within our prison service, which aims to ensure primary care is at the heart of our everyday role. The RGN Team Leader will provide high quality care and minor injury treatment to patients with both primary care and acute care needs.This role works as part of a team delivering care to patients both within the Healthcare Centres and on the Wings / House blocks within the prison environment as well as establishing and maintaining relationships with staff at all levels, customers and other key stakeholders.
Hours: 8am to 4.30pm, Monday to Friday.
About our prisons service:
We operate round-the-clock, nurse-led healthcare including prisoner screening on arrival and all primary care such as minor surgery, in-patient units, and prescribing. We also coordinate a wide range of other service providers, such as GP practices, to provide seamless care.
Main duties of the job
- Provide support to RGNs and HCAs, who may require carrying out supervisions/ appraisals on a regular basis.
- Complete the induction training for new starters from day one to the end of probation.
- Providing training to clinical and non-clinical staff where appropriate.
- Ensure a high standard of clinical care for patients under your management.
- 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.
- Provide healthcare interventions to manage minor illness or injury and take appropriate actions and refer onwards for more serious conditions.
- Assess alcohol and drug intoxication and withdrawal with support and guidance from IDTS.
- Carry out first reception screening, which occurs when a person enters the prison. You must have the ability to make appropriate recommendations on prisoner care.
- Provide professional advice and support to Paramedics, HCAs and non-clinical staff to ensure effective health care in line with current best practice.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were 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 doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Details
Date posted
18 June 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£40,000 to £42,000 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
HCRGCG/TP/13082/15871
Job locations
HCRG Care Group
Chelmsford
Essex
CM2 6JT
Employer details
Employer name
HCRG Care Group
Address
HCRG Care Group
Chelmsford
Essex
CM2 6JT
Employer's website
https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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