National Mental Health Lead

2 weeks ago


Reading, United Kingdom Practice Plus Group Full time

**About The Role**:
**Make a difference from day one**

Are you forward-thinking, collaborative, caring, and compassionate?

Prisons are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If you’re looking for a role where you can develop your existing skills and learn something new every day, then this is the place to be.

As the biggest healthcare provider to prisons in England, Practice Plus Group recognise that prisoners are a socially-excluded group who have complex mental health needs. We believe in individualised care that places our patients at its centre, regardless of the environment.

As the National Mental Health Lead, you will support our Medical Director for Mental Health, Director of Nursing & Quality, and network of Regional Mental Health Leads in providing leadership across our multi-disciplinary prison based teams in order to consistently develop and maintain high quality, safe and cost effective mental health services to our patients.

**About You**:
We are looking for an innovative and experienced mental health practitioner with a specialist qualification relevant to our Health in Justice Services or equivalent experience. You must have experience in leading multi-disciplinary teams and be able to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

**How will we support you?**
- Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course
- Competency framework
- Regional and national career development opportunities
- Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
- Support from the wider team

You’ll receive an annual salary up to £70,000 per annum - depending on experience.

**It doesn’t stop there**we also offer:

- Company pension scheme
- 25 days annual leave increasing with service up to 28 days per year, plus public bank holidays
- An extensive range of wellbeing and lifestyle benefits
- Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
- Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
- Excellent long-term career prospects
- 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it

**About Us**:
We’re the UK’s leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 people in these secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their history.
- Practice Plus Group’s mission is
- **Access to Excellence**. Our core values are;
- we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
- we act with integrity
- we embrace diversity
- we strive to do things better together

Patients can only access excellence if we commit to living our values in everything we do when we’re at work.

If you share these values and have transferable skills we want to meet you



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