Metropolitan police Service (MpS)

police Staff

information pack

custody nurse practitionerYou MUSt be a fi rst level registered adult nurse or mental health nurse holding

current registration with the nursing and Midwifery council

origins

Founded by Sir Robert Peel in 1829, the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is one of the oldest police services in the world. The original Metropolitan Police District (MPD) covered a seven mile radius from Charing Cross containing a population of less than two million. This was policed by 1,000 offi cers.

Today, the MPS is made up of more than 50,000 offi cers and staff, which includes over 5,000 volunteer police offi cers from the Metropolitan Special Constabulary (MSC) and its Employer Supported Policing (ESP) programme.

The current MPD includes the whole of the Greater London Area, covering 620 square miles and over 8.3 million people. Since April 2000, the boundaries of the MPD have mirrored the 32 London boroughs as shown below.

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organisation

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) now employs over 50,000 people in a wide variety of jobs from uniformed police offi cers patrolling London’s streets to support staff providing essential support services. The Service also includes over 5,000 Special Constable Volunteers.

From the beginning, the purpose of the MPS has been to serve and protect the people of London by providing a professional police service; this remains our purpose.

The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis is appointed by the Queen, in consultation with the Home Secretary. The Mayor’s Offi ce for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) supervises the police service and publishes an annual policing plan, including performance targets. It reports back to the Mayor, the London Assembly and the community and has a role in the appointment, and if necessary, discipline and removal of senior police offi cers.

The MPS has an annual net budget of £3.6 billion – more than 25% of the total police budget for England and Wales. It is one of the largest employers in London and South East of England.

The Commissioner has outlined his vision of Total Policing with a total war on crime, total care for victims and total professionalism from our staff at its core. We are committed to delivering excellent policing from tackling anti-social behaviour and other crime in neighbourhoods, through to dealing with terrorists and the most serious criminals often ‘behind the scenes’. We rely on the work of warranted offi cers, police community support offi cers (PCSOs), special constables and police staff to tackle the range of policing challenges facing London.

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MpS Values, Mission and priorities

Our success depends on us all working towards the same goals. Our strategy, led by the Police Commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe, is called Total Policing. It consists of a set of priorities, set out below, supported by key values. Total Policing ensures that we are on the front foot in tackling criminality in all its forms. Where new techniques or new technology can help in that war, we will maximise use of it. Total Policing also means Total Care for victims – preventing people from becoming victims in the fi rst place where possible but, where we have victims, ensuring that the MPS gives the best possible support. And we will do that with Total Professionalism, so that the MPS continues to foster the support and trust of law-abiding Londoners, while ensuring that it is an organisation that all criminals fear. All of this will be underpinned by our values of Courage, Compassion, Integrity and Professionalism.

total War on crime

We are crime fi ghters. This is a vital part of policing. Tackling crime, arresting criminals and bringing them before a court is the core of what we do, doing whatever we can to arrest criminals and stop crime as long as it is legal and ethical.

total Victim care

It is important that when a victim reports a crime that we tell them how that crime is being progressed and that they have confi dence in those dealing with their case. We also need to ensure we are sensitive to the victim’s needs, understanding what is unique about them and how we tailor our service to meet their needs. We must always remember that we have a duty of care to our victims.

total professionalism

How we will achieve Total Policing as a whole is through Total Professionalism. Whatever we do, even where we have to be assertive, we do it professionally, courteously and, most importantly, we do it effectively. Setting standards and maintaining these standards across the organisation day in day out. We expect the highest standards from staff across the MPS and rightly so, the work of police is closely scrutinised. Likewise when offi cers and staff do an outstanding job they should know how much it is valued by the rest of the MPS, and no doubt the Londoners we serve. To make the MPS the best police service, everyone has an important role to play.

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our commitment to transform - ‘Met change’

In October 2012 the Mayor’s Offi ce for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) developed and prioritised the 20/20/20 vision for the MPS.

This requires the MPS to:

• Reduce key crimes by 20% - by providing 24/7 fl exible specialist resource to address existing and emerging crime trends

• Improve public confi dence by 20% - by improving the availability, effi ciency and visibility of specialist support

• Cut costs by 20% - equivalent to a £500m budget reduction

To deliver on both the MPS’s vision and the challenges set by the Mayor, the MPS has developed a One Met Model which has at its centre a single corporate HQ. The Met Change programme is designing the future structure of the MPS to realise this transformation.

The One Met Model is made up of fi ve areas of work - Neighbourhood Policing, Pan-London Services, Control Infrastructure, Met HQ and Support Services. These areas are not structures or business groups but describe how we will deliver our services differently. They will bring together key MPS functions which were formerly fragmented across the operational business groups, and enhance their capabilities. Under each area, work is taking place to design processes and structures that will deliver the services required by a modern Met and achieve the savings needed.

Within the Met HQ a new Commercial and Finance Directorate has been created in order to help meet the goal of delivering against the MPS’s vision. This Directorate will initially combine the Finance, Procurement and Property functions, and Shared Support Services, but has the potential to include additional functions once confi rmation and approvals have been given.

Met Change and Total Professionalism are working together with co-ordinated engagement, messages and direction. Total Professionalism will support Met Change by preparing the organisation for the changes and challenges ahead by motivating staff and creating momentum and enthusiasm for the future of the MPS.

For further information on the Met Change model and the improvements we are making please visit our website on http://content.met.police.uk/Site/changingmet

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FoREnSic HEaltHcaRE SERVicES

Forensic Healthcare Services manage the provision of healthcare professionals for the MPS. The multidisciplinary team is comprised of Forensic Medical Examiners and Custody Nurse Practitioners who provide medical care to detainees, victims, police offi cers and police staff. This healthcare team work collaboratively to create a cohesive and robust approach to the provision of healthcare in the MPS.

Forensic Healthcare Services takes pride in delivering a professional forensic healthcare service, providing Healthcare Professionals to police stations in support of custody staff. Their aim is to ensure that the healthcare team attend in a timely fashion, perform to a high standard and work with offi cers and staff to provide a high quality of care to detainees, victims, offi cers and staff.

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Provide an effective forensic nursing service to the custody suite, conducting clinical assessments, identifying and implementing appropriate interventions, collecting forensic samples, providing advice and guidance and maintaining detailed and accurate records to ensure the health, safety and welfare of detained persons held in police custody.

• Liaise with all members of the Healthcare Team supporting a cohesive and robust approach by all to the provision of Healthcare within the MPS.

• Conduct clinical assessments of detained persons, particularly those with drug or alcohol problems, gathering suffi cient information to identify appropriate interventions and health and safety risks. Make recommendations regarding care regimes or referral to external health providers and determining whether or not an individual is fi t to be detained or interviewed to ensure the safety of individuals, particularly of those in custody.

• Conduct clinical assessments of victims or police offi cers/staff as required, gathering suffi cient information to identify appropriate interventions and health and safety risks, the content of care regimes or referral if needed to external health providers to ensure the safety of all individuals.

• Maintain accurate and detailed records of Clinical Assessments, Forensic Samples, Verifi cation of Death and Adverse Incidents on the appropriate report forms as required or guided by the MPS, NSPIS, the Home Offi ce and professional bodies to comply with legislation, provide evidence for cases and conform to the requirements of clinical accountability.

• Take intimate forensic samples relating to matters as determined by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, Codes of Practice, The Police Reform Bill and clinical guidelines determined by the MPS. Completing statements when required, ensuring legislative and professional guidelines are adhered to in order to facilitate the effective prosecution of offences.

Main RESponSiBilitiES

Main RESponSiBilitiES

• Provide advice and guidance to a variety of police staff, such as Custody Sergeants, investigating offi cers and individual staff on a range of issues e.g. the health and welfare of detained persons, taking non-intimate forensic samples and health promotion, dealing with ad hoc queries to protect the health, safety and welfare of those within the police environment.

• Attend the scenes of sudden deaths, complying with the procedures surrounding scenes of suspicious deaths, examining the body, raising concerns if there may be suspicious circumstances, determining if life is extinct and completing the verifi cation to enable the release of the body to the appropriate service.

• Develop and maintain effective working practices with external healthcare providers, such as the ambulance services, mental health teams and drug and alcohol services, working with them to ensure interventions requiring external involvement are carried out effectively and effi ciently.

• Provide clinical assistance, including treating minor injuries, to a variety of people including detained persons, police offi cers and others, complying with relevant MPS and professional guidelines, referring more serious ailments and injuries to external healthcare providers as needed, documenting injuries and treatments for evidential purposes as required to promote the health and well being of those on police premises.

• Maintain medical facilities within the custody suite, ensuring that suffi cient supplies of medicines, drugs and equipment are maintained, complying with MPS and professional guidelines and relevant security procedures to ensure the provision of high standards of care.

Essential criteria

You MUST be a fi rst 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 fi rst day of appointment.

Desirable criteria

You may have signifi cant 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 benefi cial:

• 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.

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operational Effectiveness

Delivers quality outcomes to meet objectives

Uses specialist knowledge and skills to support the delivery of relevant objectives. Ensures a high quality service, balancing the needs of customers and stakeholders. Manages a range of tasks, delivering to time and quality. Adapts and responds to shifting priorities. Deals with challenges and generates solutions.

Manages work through informed and reliable judgement

Uses specialist knowledge and skills to inform decision-making, and minimise risk where practicable. Provides guidance and support, seeking it where appropriate. Promotes continuous improvement proactively by identifying, sharing and applying lessons learnt.

Resource Management

Manages own time and relevant resources effi ciently and effectively

Prioritises work and use of resources to meet relevant objectives. Ensures time and resources are used in a way that best meets customer and the organisation’s needs.

Uses the organisation’s resources effi ciently, ethically and appropriately. Shows support for effi cient working.

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organisational infl uence

Builds effective relationships with customers, colleagues and stakeholders

acts with professionalism

Behaves appropriately, taking personal responsibility for own actions and setting a good example for other colleagues. Actively demonstrates the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity and helps others to do so. Develops from own experience and supports the development of others where relevant. Takes account of how own behaviour affects others. Maintains a current understanding of specialist area. Shows initiative, personal resilience and motivation to deliver a quality service. Upholds legislation, regulations and policy, acting with integrity and challenging those who do not. Develops effective communications and working relationships. Behaves appropriately, taking personal responsibility for own actions and setting a good example for other colleagues. Actively demonstrates the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity and helps others to do so. Develops from own experience and supports the development of others where relevant. Takes account of how own behaviour affects others. Maintains a current understanding of specialist area.

Builds effective relationships with customers, colleagues and stakeholders. Communicates effectively and inclusively with customers, senior managers and team members. Ensures clear, two-way communication through listening and responding appropriately, learning and sharing information. Upholds organisational reputation.

The role will require the ability to work well as part of a team and develop and sustain working relationships with staff in other agencies in a multi-disciplinary environment within the Criminal Justice team.

By joining the Metropolitan Police Service, you will be helping to protect the lives of over seven million people. There’s nothing more rewarding than knowing that your efforts are having an impact on such a large and diverse community.

Starting salary will be between £38,500 and £45,922. This includes a 20% shift disturbance allowance and Location allowance*. Annual incremental spine points will achieve progression from minimum to maximum of the pay scale. At the discretion of the Director of Nursing and on the provision of evidence we will match your current basic salary to the nearest pay point on the pay scale.

Custody Nurse Practitioner pay points • Point 1 £30,784 • Point 4 £34,994 • Point 2 £32,024 • Point 5 £36,607 • Point 3 £33,642

*Shift Disturbance allowance is calculated from basic pay. The ceiling level for this calculation is £30,496. During your induction training you will receive 10% shift disturbance allowance.

Location allowance is paid on a two zone basis as follows: • Zone 1 £3,216 - Staff whose normal place of work is Camden, Hackney,

Hammersmith and Fulham, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and Westminster

• Zone 2 £1,617 - All other MPS boroughs.

In addition to your salary you will receive the following: • A ‘Golden Hello’ one off payment of £2500 (after tax) to be paid after

3 months of satisfactory performance

• A second payment of £2500 (after tax) to be paid after satisfactory completion of the 12 months probation period

• An annual CPD allowance of £1000.

You will receive 28 days annual leave on entry, rising to 33 days after 5 years. If evidenced we will match your current annual leave to a maximum of 33 days.

As a member of our team, you will also have access to Met Benefi ts - an external website, offering MPS employees (staff and offi cers) guaranteed savings at major high street stores and retail outlets nationwide. These benefi ts are obtained and co-ordinated by Human Resources. You can save money on everything from food, clothes, furniture, electrical and DIY products to hotels, restaurants, cinemas and theatre tickets.

All staff are eligible to join the Metropolitan Police Athletic Association (MPAA) and the Metropolitan Police Sports and Social Association (known as the ‘Comets’) and enjoy taking part in sporting and social events. The MPS has four well-equipped Sports clubs at Bushey, Chigwell, Hayes and Imber Court, available to all staff as well as family and friends.

For further information regarding the terms and conditions offered by the MPS and assistance in completing your application, please download the guidance notes for Police Staff applications available on the MPS Careers website.

Your Rewards

For further information regarding the eligibility criteria for joining the MPS, please refer to the guidance notes available on the MPS Careers website or contained in the application.

The MPS is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. As part of these safeguards, the MPS adopts a consistent and thorough process of safe recruitment in order to ensure that all MPS staff and volunteers are suitable. Posts that involve a high level of contact with children and vulnerable adults will additionally require a Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) check.

applicants with previous MpS service

Please note that individuals with previous MPS service who left the MPS as a result of a corporate Early Departure Scheme [where compensation was awarded e.g. redundancy] are not eligible to submit an application to re-join the MPS in any police staff role for a period of 5 years from their date of leaving the organisation. Any applications received that do not comply with this will be automatically rejected.

EligiBilitY cRitERia

You are required to submit an application through our online system, providing a CV and personal statement of a maximum 250 words evidencing your transferable skills and indicating why you are applying for the role, accessible via the Met Careers Website.

On receipt of your application, an initial sift will be carried out to ensure you’re eligible to apply for the position – we will check the information you have provided to ensure things like our residency requirements and your registered status meet the requirements of the post.

Following this sift for eligibility, your application will then be assessed against competency based criteria specifi c to the role.

If successful at this stage, we will contact you to schedule an interview date. You will receive a minimum of seven days of notice for any interview.

The assessment will be a competency based interview, with questions being posed around the criteria for the role. You can fi nd detail in respect of this throughout this information pack.

If your application is deemed unsuccessful at any stage, we will confi rm this to you.

REcRUitMEnt pRocESS

• Custody Nurse Practitioners are required to work a 12 hour shift pattern.

• This role will operate on a 24 hour, 7 day a week shift pattern that includes early mornings and night shifts at weekends and public holidays.

• You will be on probation during your fi rst year.

• Candidates will be asked to complete a security vetting questionnaire.

• For this appointment, you must be able to give regular and effective service. You will be asked to complete a health declaration.

• Termination of Employment - Monthly paid staff; all staff in Senior Band A and B; not less than three months notice, prior to the last day of service. All other Bands; not less than one month’s notice, prior to the last day of service.

conDitionS oF SERVicE

In support of your application and future interview, we recommend background reading on Police Custody as you will need to have some awareness of this during your interview. Therefore, we have suggested the following sources.

http://www.homeoffi ce.gov.uk/police/powers/custody/?view=Standard

www.metpolicecareers.co.uk (your online guide to the Met)

We will not expect you to have an in-depth knowledge of any area of Police Custody or PACE (Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984) as you will receive full training if you are successful after interview, however, as you may be asked to apply clinical knowledge to an unfamiliar location or situation, it would be benefi cial for you to gain a basic overview.

FURtHER REaDing

If after having read through this pack you think this might be the role for you, we want to hear from you.

Given the nature of the work we do, and the role we want you to apply for, we do have to carry out rigorous background checks before we’re able to make an offer of employment. This process is thorough and can at times be lengthy, but we’ll keep you updated throughout so you know what to expect.

At the point we’re able to make an offer of employment to you, we will confi rm this in writing; please do not submit your notice to your current employer until we have done this.

Should you want to discuss this role with one of our team, please contact us at Enquiries.PoliceJobs@sscl.gse.gov.uk or by telephone on 01633 632500. We’re available from 8:00am to 6:00pm, Monday to Friday. You can access the latest status update in respect of your application at any time, by navigating to the candidate portal within our recruitment system.

We look forward to hearing from you!

WHat to Do nEXt

Please submit your completed online application, CV and a short personal statement of a maximum 250 words to explain your reasons for applying for the post, and your transferable skills and experience.

For general enquiries please visit www.metpolicecareers.co.uk, which includes an ‘Answering Your questions’ section or contact Police Enquires Team on 01633 632500.

• The recruitment process is thorough and consequently can be quite lengthy

• Short listing and interviews will be based on the criteria listed

• Until an offer of appointment is confirmed in writing, you should not assume your application has been successful.

Making an application