Mental Health Nurse Practitioner - Enhanced Support Service
Band 7
Main area: Secured Services
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - Monday to Friday 09.00-17.00
Job ref: 270-TF254-MH-C
Site: HMP Peterborough
Town: Peterborough
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pa, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/11/2024 23:59
The Enhanced Support Service team is commissioned by NHS England as part of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway and works alongside clinical and discipline staff to provide individualised assessment, care/management plans, and risk assessment for a small caseload of often challenging patients.
This service aims to reduce the negative impact of violent and disruptive behaviour in prisons using a dedicated multi-disciplinary staff team that works in partnership across prison, healthcare, and forensic psychology services. This partnership underpins the design, implementation, and successful delivery of this service.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to input into internal and external meetings regarding the clients that are part of the ESS service. The post-holder will be a resource to staff across healthcare and the wider prison providing advice and support to the care of these service users to ensure best outcomes.
The ESS will target the small minority of prisoners in the establishment who demonstrate severe and persistent violent and disruptive behaviour that has not responded to existing strategies and interventions. Staff will work intensively with prisoners in a collaborative manner to develop motivation to facilitate better settlement, improved psychological wellbeing, and in the long term, access to sentence planning services for this population. The team will work in a psychologically informed manner and be supported by formulations based on understanding of the prisoners with whom they are working. The team will work indirectly with staff to increase understanding and appropriate management of these prisoners.
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health, and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work, or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development, and growth.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.
Person specification
Knowledge and experience
* Registered Mental Health Nurse
* Masters degree or equivalent level of experience
* Clinical experience of the assessment, treatment, and support of people with personality disorder.
* Either working as a Band 7 or minimum of 2 years of experience of working at a Band 6.
* Experience of working with offenders
* Experience of teaching, training, and supervision
* Training and experience of audit, evaluation, and research
* Excellent organisational skills and an ability to work with deadlines and to manage time effectively.
Skills and Abilities
* Experience of working with people whose communication skills are impacted by their mental health and where reasonable adjustments need to be made
* Knowledge of CPA, Mental Health Act, MAPPA, legislation, and policies relevant to prison mental health.
* Ability to work effectively as part of a team and independently as appropriate
* Knowledge of current challenges/developments in Prison health.
* Ability to manage highly sensitive and complex information and relay this in a sensitive way to patients.
* Awareness of screening tools and assessments within the specialist area.
* Excellent organisational skills and an ability to work with deadlines and to manage time effectively.
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