Custody Nurse Practitioner

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25
MO9 Met Detention
MPS Wide
Band P
Full Time
Permanent

This is where your detective skills really count.

Custody Nurse Practitioner

Experienced first level Registered Adult or Mental Health Nurses required.

Starting salary will be between £43,582 to £48,469 depending on location and experience, plus joining benefits.

Aggressive? Or suffering from a mental health condition? Uncooperative? Or lacking diabetes medication? Substance misuser? Or suffering from a head injury? This is where your detective skills really count.

When you’re a Custody Nurse Practitioner you need to call on all your clinical expertise to work out what’s wrong with detainees. Often, it’s your decision that will determine the course of action. You won’t always have a team to call on or a doctor to consult. Plus, officers will be waiting for your assessment. Which makes this one of the most challenging – but also rewarding – clinical roles you can have.

Working in a Metropolitan Police Service Custody Suite, you’ll take responsibility for everything – from identifying appropriate interventions and collecting forensic samples, to maintaining complete and accurate records. So you need to be confident in your abilities and dedicated to providing the very highest standards of care. In return, we offer a generous bonus scheme including £2,500 joining bonus, £2,500 bonus after one year's service, and a £1,000 CPD allowance.

Please note that applicants who are members of the European Economic Area (EEA) are required to apply for settled or pre-settled status. If this is relevant to you and you have not yet applied to the EUSS, please take the time to do so before the deadline on 30th June 2021 at www.gov.uk/eusettlementscheme

To apply please submit your online application form with CV and a personal statement of approximately 250 words to explain your reasons for applying for the post, and your transferable skills and experience.

The MPS’s recruitment practices reflect our commitment to safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. The MPS is an equal opportunities employer.

Essential Criteria

You MUST be a first level registered adult nurse or mental health nurse holding current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

You MUST have been registered for a minimum of four years.

You WILL have a competency level equivalent to NHS Band 6 within the Health Service.

You MUST be competent in venepuncture on your first day of appointment

Desirable Criteria

You may have a significant post registration experience in:

• A & E

• Substance Misuse

• Mental Health

• Community Nursing

• Prison or other relevant discipline, to enable you to work autonomously in this role.

The following would also be beneficial:

• Immediate Life Support

• Experience of autonomous practice

• Energy and focus will be required to deliver the high standard of healthcare expected across the custody Suites.

Custody Nurse Practitioner Area Manager

Disability Confident Statement 

The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority groups and females.

As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions.

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This opportunity is closed to applications.