Forensic and offender mental health and learning disability staffing

Compassion is paramount when caring for individuals in vulnerable situations. Regardless of urgency or location, our specialist offender care nurses and healthcare assistants provide unwavering supervision throughout the justice system.

Our nurses have extensive experience supporting children, adolescents and adults, providing quality care in challenging environments, including:  

• Prisons   

• Forensic MH/LD units  

• Custody suites and police stations   

• Youth offender services   

• Secure facilities for children and adolescents   

• Court liaison and diversion services   

• Immigration removal centres   

• Secure children’s homes   

• Young offenders’ institutions   

• Secure training centres   

• Sexual assault referral centres   

• Custody escorts 

The Scottish Nursing Guild recruits to standards which meet or exceed local regulations and guidelines. We only accept the top 20% of agency workers.  

Our nurses are registered with the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) and our HCAs are registered with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC).  

All of our nurses and HCAs must have: 

• A minimum of 12 months’ experience in the last two years working in an acute mental health or learning disability setting   

• A minimum of 12 months previous experience of working in Psychiatric ICU or Forensics 

• Evidence of completion of Child Protection Training (Level 3) if working in a young offender’s institute 

• The ability to undertake a range of core skills in a prison medical centre, with a focus on the promotion of health and wellbeing 

Our forensic and offender mental health and learning disability staffing is tailored to meet your organisation’s specific requirements. When you arrange nurses and HCAs through the Scottish Nursing Guild, various factors will affect the cost of our services, including: 

• How many nurses and HCAs you need 

• The amount of time that you require our staff for 

• The types of staff you need