Registered and scholar nurses can go behind the partitions of HMP Shotts later this month to find the distinctive job alternatives on provide there.
The careers occasion with a distinction on the Lanarkshire jail is aimed toward registered nurses and nursing college students who're within the ultimate 12 months of their research.
The occasion will present them with the possibility to go to the well being centre on the jail and find out about multi-disciplinary groups working in jail healthcare.
Registered nurses within the Band 5 nurses’ positions may have the chance to satisfy a number of the healthcare group together with, the jail’s deputy governor and different Scottish Jail Service workers, the lead GP there, senior healthcare managers, and members of the multi-disciplinary group.
A practitioner nurse at HMP Shotts advised Lanarkshire Stay : “I benefit from the selection and totally different expertise required to carry out the function as no two days are the identical. I get pleasure from working with all my totally different colleagues and the folks we work with within the jail.
“Typical day can include administering treatment, triaging and helping sufferers, and dealing in nurse-led clinics.
“I might suggest the job because it’s an thrilling and diverse function the place you achieve a number of expertise. It gives an excellent work life steadiness and now we have a really pleasant and welcoming group devoted to our sufferers’ wants.”
On the day, these attending ought to report back to the vestibule on the important entrance of the jail the place they are going to be met by an NHS scientific nurse supervisor.
They need to additionally take alongside photographic identification within the type of driving licence or passport.
All digital gadgets together with cell phones are prohibited. Lockers can be found to retailer valuables if required.
Allison Pettigrew, senior nurse, Well being and Social Care North Lanarkshire, advised us: “A profession in jail healthcare is usually one that almost all nurses wouldn’t pay attention to.
“We’re holding this nursing careers occasion to present potential new recruits a sense for what their day would contain and provides them the possibility to talk with a number of the members of the group at HMP Shotts.
“Nurses working in prisoner healthcare have a really diverse working day.
"They contribute to, and ship, a complete main care service in partnership with Psychological Well being and dependancy practitioners.
"They're a useful a part of an in depth multi-disciplinary group throughout the distinctive setting of a jail atmosphere.
“It’s an actual alternative to make use of the breadth of their expertise and data whereas being a part of a group offering evaluation, analysis and supply of a spread of interventions to handle prisoner healthcare wants.”
To register for the occasion which runs from 1.30 to three.30pm on on Monday, October 24, electronic mail: Sarah.Wilson3@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
The job specification and software will be discovered right here.
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