Come and meet our team at our upcoming recruitment event in Chelmsford on 19th February 2025!
Location: Moulsham Mill, Parkway, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 7PX
Date: Wednesday 19th February 2025
Time: 13:00pm - 17:00pm
We can’t wait to meet you at our recruitment Careers Day event showcasing a variety of exciting roles where you can meet the team and have a chat to service managers over a cup of coffee.
Some of the roles available are:
Mental Health Nurse
Mental Health Nurse Team Leader
Psychiatrist
Pharmacy Technician
Registered General Nurse
Registered General Nurse Team Leader
Nursing Associate
Working within HMP Chelmsford offers a unique environment, with clear visibility of senior management who are easily approachable due to their hands-on approach. You will feel listened to and be given the platforms to have your voice and ideas heard. We have multiple exciting vacancies to work with our prisons team at HMP Chelmsford, from entry-level roles such as a healthcare assistant and administrator to more specialised roles such as a pharmacy technician.
Click ‘apply’ for the recruitment team to contact you directly with more details or visit: https://www.hcrgcaregroup.jobs/how-to-apply/open-days/ for more information about our open days and for all our current vacancies.
Package DescriptionWithin all of our roles, you’ll be part of our valued team:
Competitive salary depending on experience with group pension
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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
Main Responsibilities
The role requires autonomous function and within the scope of competency, whilst being a support and resource to less experienced members of staff.
Maintain clear and comprehensive, signed and contemporaneous records both written and electronic.
Communicate effectively with other team members, prison staff and external agencies both verbally and written
Undertake all mandatory and additional training as identified
Use and encourage others to be familiar with the security systems within the prison
Undertake all duties as required in specific role within HMP Chelmsford and to comply with the competencies, knowledge and skills framework of the Department of Health
The Ideal CandidatePerson Specification
Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
Ability to build and develop relationships
Must be confident and capable of autonomous practice and able to work independently
Qualifications required for each role vary:
Qualified with an NVQ Level 3, BTEC or equivalent
Registered Pharmacist Technician with current General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) membership
Registered Nurse/ Mental Health Nurse with pin
All candidates are subject to prison vetting checks
Ability to work effectively as part of a multi professional team within a fast-paced environment
Desirable Experience
Experience in a Prison environment
Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
About The CompanyWe 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'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.
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