Do you have a passion for leading a service in a custodial setting?
We are looking for an experienced and dedicated registered mental health professional to lead our Integrated Mental Health & Substance Use Team, based within HMP Isle of Wight.
You would be joining a caring and compassionate multi-disciplinary team committed to recovery-focused and trauma-informed approaches to care. The Service is responsible for assessment, planning, and the delivery of a range of evidence-based therapeutic interventions to support mental health and substance use needs.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the management and leadership of the team. With a small clinical caseload, you will offer assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of evidenced-based interventions. You will provide team leadership in coordinating the day-to-day provision of integrated wellbeing, mental health, and substance use healthcare to service users in a custodial setting and maintain the overall standards which will include a single point of referral assessment and delivery of care within the framework of The Care Programme Approach and recovery agenda. This will involve both clinical responsibilities of managing a small caseload as well as day-to-day operational management.
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details; a summary is below:
* Support in the implementation of integrated care pathways including appropriate service user assessments and models of care within a stepped care mental health model.
* Co-ordinate care delivery across the mental healthcare pathway e.g., referrals management, allocations of named worker/care co-ordinator, ensuring seamless continuity of care across the stepped care model dependent on service user need.
* Demonstrate the application of appropriate procedures and standards.
* Assist in the general management of the clinical area, with responsibilities for managing attendance.
* Lead on caseload and management supervision to monitor named nurse/care co-ordinator standards of service user care and documentation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Relevant Degree or Post Graduate diploma/equivalent level of experience.
Experience
* Considerable experience of working in the mental health field.
* Experience of providing specialist interventions for those with mental health problems, counselling techniques, CBT, motivational interviewing.
* Demonstrable experience at Band 6/7 or equivalent.
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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