Mental Health Nurse Prescriber - HMP Chelmsford

Job Introduction

Package Description

As a Mental Health Nurse Prescriber you will be part of our valued team based at HMP Chelmsford. You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £57,528 - £64,750 FTE with access to our group pension
• 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
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
  
  

Introduction

Are you a compassionate, trauma‑informed Mental Health Nurse Prescriber looking to make a meaningful difference? We are seeking an experienced V300 Independent Prescriber to join our mental health team within HMP Chelmsford, where you will play a vital role in providing high quality stabilisation, prescribing, and emotion regulation care to individuals in custody.

This is a unique and rewarding opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary, psychologically informed service that places compassion, curiosity, and high clinical standards at the heart of everything we do.

HMP Chelmsford

is a busy Category B local prison providing care to men with a wide range of physical, mental health, and social care needs. Working in this environment brings both challenge and reward, with no two days the same. You will join a supportive team committed to reducing health inequalities and improving patient outcomes.

About The Role

As a Mental Health Nurse Prescriber, you will:

• Deliver safe, effective prescribing and clinical decision‑making aligned with NICE and prison formulary guidance.
• Complete comprehensive, trauma‑informed mental health assessments.
• Develop and deliver stabilisation and emotion‑regulation plans for individuals experiencing acute distress or dysregulation.
• Provide clinical leadership alongside the Consultant Psychiatrist and Early Days in Custody (EDiC) Lead Nurse.
• Contribute to shared clinical pathways and MDT formulations.
• Support colleagues through training, reflective practice, and guidance in trauma‑informed care.
• Promote psychologically safe environments across the prison setting.
• Uphold robust governance, safety, and quality standards, including engagement in audits, incident reviews, and PSIRF activities.
  
  

Working closely with:

• Head of Mental Health
• Consultant Psychiatrist
• EDiC Lead Nurse
• Mental Health Nursing Team
• Psychology & Wellbeing Service
• Primary Care and Substance Misuse teams
• Safer Custody staff and prison officers
• Wider Health & Justice governance teams
  
  

A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Registered Mental Health Nurse (NMC)
• V300 Independent Prescriber qualification
• Experience in acute, forensic, or secure mental health settings
• Skilled in formulation and trauma‑informed practice

Strong communication, collaboration, and clinical leadership skills

Experience supporting emotion regulation and stabilisation

Desirable

• Training in AMBIT, DBT, MBT, or trauma‑stabilisation approaches
• Experience contributing to service development, clinical governance, or psychologically informed environments
  
  

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'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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