We are recruiting Forensic Custody Healthcare Professionals (RGNs and Paramedics) to deliver specialist healthcare within police custody. This is a rare opportunity to step into a respected forensic role with full accredited training provided.
We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to help you achieve a positive work life balance while building a rewarding and impactful career in an organisation that values and supports its people.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct comprehensive clinical assessments to determine fitness for detention, interview, charge, and release, including capacity assessments.
- Manage medical emergencies, treat injuries, and provide healthcare advice in a fast‑paced environment.
- Support detainees with mental health needs, substance misuse, alcohol dependency, and complex vulnerabilities.
- Collect and document forensic samples in line with evidential and legal standards.
- Produce accurate clinical and evidential records, including injury documentation.
- Liaise with police, custody teams, NHS, and other healthcare services to ensure appropriate onward care.
- Attend hospital blood procedures under the Road Traffic Act.
- Prepare professional statements and attend court as an impartial healthcare witness.
Qualifications and Experience
- Registered General Nurse (RGN) or Paramedic with current NMC or HCPC registration.
- A minimum of three years post‑qualification experience in an acute setting (e.g., frontline paramedic, A&E, prison, custody, urgent care).
- Full UK driving licence with less than six penalty points.
- Ability to successfully complete enhanced DBS clearance and police vetting.
- Full right to work in the UK and have lived in the UK for a minimum of three years prior to application.
- Strong assessment, communication, and decision‑making skills with confidence working autonomously.
- A calm, professional and compassionate approach when working with vulnerable individuals, including those who may be distressed, intoxicated or experiencing acute mental health symptoms.
- Willingness to complete accredited forensic training within the first year of employment.
Benefits
- A joining bonus of £1,500 (£750 paid after probation period and £750 paid after a year in the role).
- Refer a friend reward of £500.
- NMC or HCPC registration fees paid.
- Access to a company pension scheme.
- Overtime at enhanced rates.
- A supportive, values‑driven culture where professionalism and compassion are genuinely recognised.
- A unique clinical environment where no two shifts are the same.
- Exposure to specialist forensic skills including evidential documentation and forensic sampling.
- Opportunities to progress within one of the UK’s most respected forensic healthcare providers.
- Accredited forensic training and structured development.
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