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Mental Health Specialist

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 Nurse/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.

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.

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.

Important Information

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

You will need to provide:

Proof of right to work documentation.

Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID.

Proof of address documentation.

Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.

Address History:

5 years address history will be needed.

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website.