Bank Mental Health Nurse (RMN) - HMP Guys Marsh
Band 5
Main area: Offender Healthcare
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Bank
Hours: Flexible working - 37.5 hours per week (Bank / Flexible)
Job ref: 277-BankMHNurse-B5-HMPGM
Site: HMP Guys Marsh
Town: Shaftesbury
Salary: £32,324 per annum pro-rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: Today at 23:59
Job overview
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.
Oxleas NHS Trust was awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and currently has a portfolio of 19 prisons across the South of England. We are looking to expand our pool of bank workers by recruiting Mental Health Nurses to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis.
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 well-being and support better outcomes in the future.
Please note: In order to work as a bank-only worker, you will need to have completed preceptorship training or obtained 6 months post-qualification experience.
Main duties of the job
As a Mental Health Nurse, 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 be required to 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 level 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 Nurses 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.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas – About Us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector through our new provider collaboratives.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
* We Listen
* We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate the ability to work in a challenging and multi-agency environment, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team consisting of nursing and medical staff and a range of allied health professionals such as dentistry, optometry, physiotherapy, and podiatry.
Monitor and audit the quality and effectiveness of all aspects of service delivery.
Maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout an offender’s care pathway whilst detained in prison and admitted to the IPU.
To liaise with others to share expertise, promote ideas and work collaboratively with key stakeholders, agencies, and organisations as required.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Qualified RMN
* ENB 998 Course or equivalent
Experience
* An ability to assess risk and care-plan effectively
* An understanding of the 1983 Mental Health Act and subsequent mental health legislation as they pertain to nursing
* Ability to demonstrate the safe and effective assessment, triage, and care planning & interventions for complex cases
* Understanding and/or experience of secure environments (prisons or forensic services)
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.
We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview, if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional 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.
Name: Carly Fudgell
Job title: Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer
Email address: carly.fudgell@nhs.net
If you'd like to explore opportunities to work for us, please submit an expression of interest form.
Our HR team will keep in touch with you to find the right opportunity.
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