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Job reference: 124422
Salary: Band 5 (£26,104 - £32,915)
Job closing date: 09/11/2022
Job Type: Nursing and Midwifery
Location: Porterfield H M Prison
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 37.5
Job posted date: 24/10/2022
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Highland
Department: HMP Inverness Health Centre

Job Advert

NHS HIGHLAND

HMP INVERNESS HEALTH CENTRE

STAFF NURSE

Band 5: £26,104 - £32,915 pro rata per annum

37.5 hours per week – Full time, Permanent

There is an opportunity for a band 5 Staff Nurse to work in Inverness Prison. Working with patients with challenging behaviour and complex physical and mental health needs that include Primary Care and Drug and Alcohol Recovery in a prison setting.

Your day to day roles and responsibilities will include medication rounds with controlled medications being dispensed, GP clinics, nurse triage clinics, admissions and transfers in and out of Inverness Prison. You would also be expected, within your working day, to be able to deal with emergency situations and work within the MDT and that includes wide collaborative working with the Scottish Prison Service and external organisations.

We currently have a capacity for approx. 115 prisoners in our current establishment but the postholder would be included in the re-location to the new HMP Highland's Prison whereby our capacity would increase to 200. This post comes at quite an exciting time for HMP Inverness.

Requirements are a RN with a current NMC Registration.

Shift patterns are within the hours of:

  • 07.00-21.00 Monday-Friday 
  • 07.15-17.15  Saturday-Sunday

Informal enquiries to: Lynn Mackay - Clinical Manager 01463 229081

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Closing date: 09/11/2022

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