Main area: Integrated Mental Health Team (IMHT), HMP Liverpool
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift work covering service hours of 07:30 - 19:30 with mains and a late/early)
Job ref: 350-SC6462428-C
Site: HMP Liverpool
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum (£1200 R&R included per annum)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/11/2024 23:59
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, 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
We are now recruiting Band 6 Charge Nurse RMNs to join our team. The successful candidate will work alongside fellow Nurses and the wider IMHT to support those in custody with mental health 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.
Within the IMHT, we prioritise the development of our staff team and have proven that we value and nurture diverse clinical interests. We are committed to creating an empowered staff team. We strive to be reflective and supportive of each other which is vital given the challenges this work can entail.
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.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
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
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 the 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 on occasions 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 the 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, evidenced-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
Education/qualifications
* Registered Mental Health Nurse
* Registered on the NMC register
* Demonstrates evidence of continued professional development
* Excellent interpersonal skills
Skills and abilities
* Able to assess, plan, implement & evaluate programmes of care
* Can demonstrate application of theoretical models into practice
* Proven communication skills (verbal & written)
* Leadership skills: supervising, teaching & assessing; self-motivated with the ability to motivate others; effective resource management
* Uses initiative and can make decisions
* Applies current research and theory into practice
* Works well in a multi-disciplinary team
* Able to organise and co-ordinate services during the absence of more senior staff
* Has participated in group teaching
Experience
* Minimum of 18 months post qualification experience in mental health
* Experience of using the Effective Care Coordination
* Multi-disciplinary working
* Supervision of others
Knowledge and understanding
* Mental Health Act 1983 (updated 2007)
* NMC Code of Professional Conduct
* Effective Care Co-ordination
* Use of assessment tools/techniques
* Promote people’s equality, diversity & rights
* Knowledge of Service Governance
* Committed to clinical supervision
Special requirements
* Commitment to working with people with severe mental health problems
* Ability to complete PSS training
* Enhanced DBS Disclosure
We celebrate diversity and promote 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 believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
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.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
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 to 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.
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