Senior Nurse Practitioner (Learning Disability Complex Care)
Band 6
Main area: Prison Services
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Office hours are 7.30-19.30, the shift pattern is long days based on service need)
Job ref: 350-SC6831943
Site: HMP Liverpool
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 + £1200 R&R per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 15/12/2024 23:59
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us.
Job overview
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is the health provider for the delivery of the Integrated Mental Health Team (IMHT) at HMP Liverpool. The service is designed to support the holistic mental health and learning disability needs of our client group, in partnership with our Physical Health providers and HMPPS colleagues.
HMP Liverpool is a Category B, male only, local prison, in the Liverpool area.
The service provides individual and group-based interventions based on the clinical needs of the population. The service is developing and will adopt the biopsychological model to inform practice and tailor interventions accordingly. These interventions will be individualised, and trauma informed, alongside comprehensive risk assessment and management.
Core aims of the service are to improve mental and psychological wellbeing via a range of interventions, build the development of independent core skills, reduce risk, and advocate for mental health and learning disabilities within the wider prison.
The post holder will be joining a dedicated team of clinical staff from a range of backgrounds and experience. Team members have high levels of skill, passion and enthusiasm (and humour!) and are committed to ensuring the ongoing successful development of the service and the opportunities it provides for our population.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work alongside a fellow Learning Disability Nurse and the wider IMHT to support those in custody with Learning Disability and Autism needs.
The post holder will have clinical responsibility via the application of relevant assessments and facilitating individual and group-based interventions based on the holistic needs of the client group.
The post holder should have considerable experience of working with individuals with complex clinical and risk presentations including within institutional settings and as part of a multi-disciplinary team. This should include work with clients whose needs may mean that they find it difficult to engage with services.
Experience of working in complex service and organisational settings is required alongside an ability to constructively manage the personal, professional and ethical opportunities and challenges such work can involve.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Principal Responsibilities:
1. To carry a clinical caseload within the prison with individuals who present behaviour that challenges or where there is a risk of offending.
2. Under direction undertake a thorough assessment of new referrals using a range of tools.
3. Under direction provide comprehensive risk assessment of offending and/or other complex behaviours.
4. Under supervision carry out initial assessments with service users.
5. Under the supervision of senior staff complete comprehensive risk assessment of offending and/or challenging behaviours.
6. Under the supervision of senior staff, develop Risk Management Plans including strategies and recommendations.
7. Contribute to the development of a formulation of offending behaviour and/or risk.
8. Under the direction of senior staff support the implementation of specialist therapeutic interventions.
9. To evaluate the outcome of any interventions.
10. Develop detailed care plans when planning release from prison settings or when seeking alternative placements in community settings.
11. To encourage the ethos of the Positive Behavioural Support model in delivery of care.
12. To provide advice and support to teams to maintain consistency in the overall management and response to risky or challenging behaviour.
13. To undertake urgent or emergency assessments, including risk assessments.
14. To provide recommendations for a gatekeeping assessment where appropriate.
15. To provide advice, consultation and support to partner agencies regarding complex challenging behaviour and offending.
16. To support and lead on the development of contingency plans for crisis and relapses.
17. To organise own workload and work schedule.
18. To provide clinical and managerial supervision to junior members of staff.
19. To act as supervisor, assessor and mentor for students, nurses and junior staff.
20. To facilitate the education of service users, relatives and other agencies concerned with provision of learning disability services in the prison service.
21. To be involved in the development of training/information resources for partner agencies in the area of Learning Disabilities.
22. To ensure Safeguarding requirements are upheld.
23. To organise and chair regular staff meetings and other forums as appropriate.
24. To provide statistical information as required by the Trust.
25. To ensure effective communication between services, and the coordination of other services as appropriate.
26. To undertake duties as may be delegated by the Service Manager.
27. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support practice.
28. To contribute to the evidence base by leading and participating in research and audits whenever possible.
29. To develop and review protocols, policies and procedures.
Person specification
Qualifications
* 1st level Nurse Registration in either Learning Disability or Mental Health.
* Degree plus evidence of additional experience and significant skill within relevant field.
* Post registration training in a therapeutic/intervention approach (e.g. Applied Behavioural Analysis and Intervention, CBT etc.).
* Good computing skills (ECDL or Similar)
Knowledge & Experiences
* Minimum eighteen months post-registration experience to include having worked with people with learning disability needs and those in forensic services.
* Experience of communicating with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations.
* Experience in the use of forensic risk assessment and management.
* A good understanding of the Mental Capacity Act, DOLs, Safeguarding and the legal frameworks applicable to working with offenders in a forensic setting.
* An understanding of the Criminal Justice process.
* Experience of inter-agency working.
* Experience of providing management and clinical supervision.
* Prior experience of working with people with autism, mental health, personality-related needs, dual diagnosis etc.
* Demonstrates leadership skills, training skills and can motivate others.
* Experience working with staff teams, providing consultancy and clinical supervision.
* Demonstrate an interest in theories of offending in learning disabilities.
* 6 months experience working within a forensic service.
Skills
* Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
* Ability to work on own and to work to set and meet deadlines.
* Ability to work in a multi-agency context.
* Skills in the assessment of complex behaviours using a variety of methods.
* Skills in the designing of intervention and management plans, evaluation and monitoring.
* Able to recognise limits of own competency and when to seek supervision.
* Able to work autonomously and on own initiative, prioritise and manage own time effectively.
* Driving Licence.
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain 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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