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.
The South West Prison Healthcare contract was awarded to Oxleas NHS Trust in 2022. We are currently looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Mental Health Practitioner to join our friendly team at HMP Guys Marsh.
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil 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 for all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
We will welcome applications from both full or part-time applicants; please state in your supporting statements if you are looking for a part-time role.
Main duties of the job
* To communicate effectively on a range of issues that are often complex in their nature and in complex situations.
* Participate in the annual appraisal reviews and demonstrate reflective practice through the Knowledge and Skills Framework.
* To maintain comprehensive and timely electronic clinical records ensuring confidentiality is maintained at all times.
* Provide supervision, mentorship & leadership for junior staff.
* Take all necessary care in the working environment, adhering to relevant health and safety policies.
* Participate and positively contribute to the services integrated clinical governance arrangements.
* Carry out administrative tasks as directed including research, audit, data, and activity statistics.
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.
* 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.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
* Previous experience working as a registered Mental Health Professional
* Evidence of well-developed clinical skills in assessing and treating adults with complex mental health needs
* Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations. Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.
Desirable
* Knowledge of current National Prison Health Quality & Performance Indicators
* Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare. Experience Working within prison or secure settings.
Qualifications
Essential
* Professional Registration - RMN, HCPC, Social Worker, Etc.
Skills
Essential
* Good written/verbal communication skills
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
HMP Guys Marsh
Shaftesbury
SP7 0AH
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