Mental Health Practitioner

1 month ago

Devizes, Wiltshire, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full time

About the Role

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a skilled Mental Health Practitioner to join our team at HMP Erlestoke. As part of our Mental Health In-Reach Team, you will provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders and work collaboratively with other specialist services to achieve high-quality health outcomes.

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, including 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 caseload 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.

About 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 healthcare, 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 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

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