Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast-paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.
As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Mental Health Nurse/Practitioner to join our friendly team at HMP Erlestoke.
Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison, and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instill hope for patients' future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy, and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
As part of our mental health team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (including pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, which encourages career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
Main duties of the job
As a Mental Health Practitioner, you will be providing specialist mental healthcare to offenders and working as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team, plus wider mental health services. You will work in a psychologically minded way with offenders in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.
Our Mental Health Team provides specialist interventions at primary and secondary care levels, including referral management, screening assessment, triage, evidence-based interventions, care planning, and risk assessing, plus one-to-one and group-work facilitation.
Our Mental Health Practitioners manage a mixed and challenging caseload and are required to perform robust assessment, screening, and interventions to offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. You will contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assist with early discharge through the implementation of high-intensity interventions and complex case management arrangements.
One of our key aims is to ensure continuity of care for an offender on ordinary location and reduce the length of stay, both in relation to prison inpatient services and external NHS/independent inpatient services. You will work closely with community mental health teams to ensure appropriate sharing of information, continuity of care, and the Care Programme Approach for all offenders as necessary.
Job responsibilities
* To perform robust assessment, screening, and interventions to service users with mental health and neurodevelopmental and trauma needs.
* Ensure that all waiting time, assessment, and interventions are delivered in a timely manner, positively contributing to the achievement of the services' performance target.
* Ensure integrated and collaborative working with other specialist services, including continuity of care and through-the-gate arrangements and liaison.
* Work closely with community mental health teams (CMHTs) to ensure appropriate sharing of information, continuity of care, and the Care Programme Approach (CPA) for all service users where necessary.
* To provide comprehensive and timely reports and mental health expertise to multi-agency public protection panels (MAPPA), police, probation services, solicitors, and court liaison teams as directed.
* Deliver active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required.
* To participate in resource centre services as directed, delivering psychological therapy and specialist activities under the direction of the clinical lead.
* To work in a psychologically minded way with service users in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.
* Close working relationships with all prison staff, to include participation in sentence planning, resettlement, safer custody, and the ACCT processes.
* To develop and take on a specialist lead role as appropriate and provide peer support and training in this area.
* To contribute towards support, advice, consultation, and training for prison staff.
* The post holder will be part of a skilled multidisciplinary team (MDT) comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, managing a single referral pathway.
* The post holder will be required to undertake training to maximize the uptake of screening, health promotion, and prevention activity, including vaccinations.
* The post holder will be required to hold a caseload and coordinate services for users with secondary mental health and complex needs.
* The post holder will ensure that a single, integrated care plan is developed in collaboration with service users and is responsible for facilitating the development of comprehensive risk assessments, crisis plans, and advance statements.
* The post holder will attend/contribute in a weekly MDT meeting for service users on the secondary caseload and complex care needs.
* The post holder will ensure that they undertake all training in evidence-based CBT approaches to enhance consistency and quality of care delivery.
* The post holder will support patients to manage all areas of their health at every stage, from oral health to long-term conditions.
* The post holder will ensure that health promotion is embedded into every aspect of the service.
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, including 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.
* 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:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
* Current relevant registration with the NMC or HCPC
* Diploma level/Degree in relevant health/social care profession, e.g., RMN, OT, Social Worker
Experience
* Substantial post-registration experience gained working in a range of frontline adult mental health services, undertaking assessment and delivering interventions.
* Relevant post-registration training in one of the following areas: Learning disability, Personality disorder, Substance misuse/dual diagnosis, or Psychological therapies.
* Experience gained in a wide variety of settings.
Skills
* Able to articulate a detailed understanding of the relevant legal frameworks/legislation including CPA process, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, and Safeguarding.
* Knowledge of models of mental health assessment.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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