Job overview
This role includes an RSU allowance of £1,446 per annum on top of your salary
We're recruiting for a Mental Health Team Manager to lead our team at .
You'll have the unique opportunity to work in prisons, specifically at HMP Huntercombe near Henley. This is a male foreign national Category C prison, providing a diverse and unique patient group for you to work with.
You will provide leadership to a team of health care professionals in the provision of high-quality mental health care to service users in a custodial setting. You'll also be responsible for ensuring individuals within the establishment have timely access to appropriate mental health care through a single point of referral, ensuring that the team delivers care within the appropriate legislative and theoretical frameworks such as The Care Programme Approach and Recovery Agenda.
The role includes holding both clinical responsibilities in terms of managing a small caseload and operational responsibilities in terms of ensuring the safe day-today running of the service and will be required to deputise for the matron as and when appropriate/required.
If you're an experienced RMN ready to take on a new and rewarding challenge, we would love to hear from you!
Please note if you are based outside of the UK you will need to be fully qualified, have already passed your OSCE and have an NMC pin number in order to be considered for this role
Main duties of the job
1. Provide Leadership and Line Management responsibilities to a Multi-disciplinary Team of healthcare professionals
2. Support the matron in the implementation of integrated care pathways including appropriate assessments tools and models of care within a stepped care mental health model.
3. Co-ordinate care delivery, across the mental healthcare pathway e.g. referrals management, allocations of named worker/care co-ordinator, implementing interventions including groups, ensuring seamless continuity of care across the stepped care model dependent on individual’s needs.
4. Demonstrate the application of appropriate procedures and standards.
5. Lead on caseload and management supervision to monitor named nurse / care co-ordinator standards of individuals care and documentation
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
Person specification
Additional Skills
Essential criteria
6. To be able to use email, internet, word, spreadsheets and databases.
7. English verbal and written communication skills
Desirable criteria
8. To have experience in producing reports and presenting data
Contractual
Essential criteria
9. Ability to undertake continuing professional development
Qualifications
Essential criteria
10. Relevant Professional Qualification (RMN)
11. Hold an advanced professional/clinical qualification (e.g. AMHP, CBT, DBT, NMP)
Desirable criteria
12. Qualification in management and leadership within a healthcare setting
Experience
Essential criteria
13. Experience of working in the field of criminal justice
14. Knowledge of forensic care
Desirable criteria
15. Previous Experience of Managing a Team
16. A specialist knowledge and clinical experience of working in Prison mental health
17. All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
18. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
19. We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
20. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
21. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
22. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
23. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
24. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing