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Mental Health Nurse/Practitioner

2 months ago


Devizes, Wiltshire, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and compassionate Mental Health Nurse/Practitioner to join our team at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, providing specialist mental healthcare to offenders in a prison setting.

Key Responsibilities
  • Perform robust assessment, screening, and interventions to service users with mental health and neurodevelopmental and trauma needs.
  • Ensure integrated and collaborative working with other specialist services, including continuity of care and through the gate arrangements and liaison.
  • Work closely with community mental health teams (CMHTs) to ensure appropriate sharing of information, continuity of care and the Care Programme Approach (CPA) for all service users where necessary.
  • Provide comprehensive and timely reports and mental health expertise to multi-agency public protection panels (MAPPA), police, probation services, solicitors and court liaison teams as directed.
  • Deliver active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required. To receive supervision as directed (line management and clinical).
  • Participate in resource centre services as directed, delivering psychological therapy and specialist activities under the direction of the clinical lead.
  • Work in a psychologically minded way with service users in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.
  • Closely work with all prison staff, to include participation in sentence planning, resettlement, safer custody, and the ACCT processes.
  • Develop and take on a specialist lead role as appropriate and provide peer support and training in this area.
  • Contribute towards support, advice, consultation, and training for prison staff.
  • The post holder will be part of a skilled multidisciplinary team (MDT) comprising of all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway.
  • The post holder will be required to undertake training to maximise uptake of screening, health promotion and prevention activity, including vaccinations.
  • The post holder will be required to hold a caseload and care co-ordinate services users with secondary mental health and complex needs. Ensuring a proactive, evidence-based approach to clinical interventions, health promotion/prevention activity, and management of acute and long-term conditions using a stepped care approach.
  • The post holder will ensure that a single, integrated, care plan is devolved in collaboration with service users and responsible for facilitating the development of comprehensive risk assessment, crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate. Ensure the individualised care is regularly reviewed and updated where necessary.
  • The post holder as a care coordinator will attend/contribute in a weekly MDT meeting for service users on secondary case load and complex care needs. This will ensure a tailored individual needs approach.
  • The post holder will ensure that they undertake all training in evidence-based CBT approaches, to enhance consistency and quality of care delivery.
  • The post holder will support patients to manage all areas of their health at every stage, from oral health to long-term conditions.
  • The post holder will ensure that health promotion is embedded into every aspect of the service.
Requirements
  • Current relevant registration with the NMC or HCPC.
  • Diploma level/Degree in relevant health/social care profession, eg RMN, RLDN OT, Social Worker.
  • Substantial post-registration experience gained working in a range of frontline adult mental health services, undertaking assessment and delivering interventions.
  • Relevant, post registration training in one of the following areas: Learning disability, Personality disorder, Substance misuse/dual diagnosis or Psychological therapies.
  • Relevant post-registration qualifications, such as Thorn, Non-Medical Prescribing, CBT, AMHP, Brief Interventions etc.
  • Experience gained in a wide variety of settings.
  • Working in a custodial setting.
  • Able to articulate a detailed understanding of the relevant legal frameworks/legislation including CPA process, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, and Safeguarding.
  • Knowledge of models of mental health assessment.
Working with Us

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust 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 and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

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're Kind
  • We're Fair
  • We Listen
  • We Care