Main area: Mental Health
Grade Band: 5
Contract: Permanent
Shift pattern across a seven-day week, long days, night shifts, and weekends.
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 277-7121931-WANDS
Site: HMP Wandsworth Town, London
Salary: £35,964 - £43,780 pa inc
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/04/2025 23:59
Job overview
* To work under the direction of senior staff to deliver and constantly strive to improve the offender healthcare services.
* To provide mental health care based on the principles of timely, comprehensive assessment and evidence-based practice.
* To reduce or mitigate the effects of unhealthy or high-risk behaviours (ACCT).
* To promote effective links with health and related services in the community to ensure continuity of care as appropriate (Care Program Approach, CPA).
Main duties of the job
* To be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway.
* To undertake training to maximise uptake of screening, health promotion, and prevention activity, including vaccinations.
* To ensure a named care co-ordinator is allocated for every patient with complex needs who will ensure a proactive, evidence-based approach to clinical interventions, health promotion/prevention activity, and management of acute and long-term conditions using our stepped care approach.
* To ensure that single, integrated care plans are developed, and the individualised care is regularly reviewed.
* To ensure that comprehensive risk assessments and care plans are regularly reviewed in a needs-led review cycle.
* To ensure care coordination criteria and MDT meetings for patients with complex needs will be tailored to the needs of the establishment.
* To undertake all training in evidence-based CBT approaches, to enhance consistency and quality of care delivery.
* To support patients to manage their health at every stage, from oral health to long-term conditions.
* To ensure that health promotion is embedded into every aspect of the service.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector. Our 4,300 members of staff work in various settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools, and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London, we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
* We Listen
* We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Acts as an advocate and champion for offenders.
* Acts as a role model to team members and students so that offenders always receive best practice care.
* To support senior staff in the development of high-quality mental health care through the effective assessment, development, and implementation programs. To assess care needs and provide high-quality nursing care as a member of a multi-disciplinary team for offenders who have mental health care needs utilising the CPA processes and risk assessment & care planning.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide:
* Proof of right to work documentation
* Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
* Proof of address documentation
* Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
Address History:
5 years address history will be needed.
Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from: this link.
If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).
Person specification
NMC Registration
* RMN
* 1 year post-registration experience
* Worked in a forensic setting
* Worked in a prison setting
* Experience of Systm One and IT applications
Documentation
* An ability to assess risk and care-plan effectively
* An understanding of the 1983 Mental Health Act and subsequent mental health legislation
* Strong Computer and IT skills.
Ability to work with complex needs
* Ability to work in a challenging secure environment, and adhere to all security requirements of the prison.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation, national initiatives and guidance, and of own professional code of, role and responsibilities
* Demonstrate a knowledge of Prison Service objectives and principles
* Ability to manage complex & challenging behaviour
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.
We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview, if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.
Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process. We also discourage overuse of AI during the application process because this can negatively impact the quality of your application and may hinder your chances of being shortlisted. Thank you.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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