Bank Mhpractitioner Hmp Erlestoke

Bank Mental Health Practitioner Band 6

HMP ERLESTOKE, WILTSHIRE

This an exciting opportunity for a Band 6, Mental Health Practitioner to work within a secure environment providing specialist mental healthcare to offenders and to work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider mental health services.

Within this post you will deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level to include; Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidence-based interventions. Care Planning and risk assessing. One-to-one and group-work facilitation. Managing a mixed and challenging caseload.

Within this role you will contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assisting with early discharge, through the implementation of high intensity specialist interventions and complex case management arrangements resulting in continuity of care for an offender on ordinary location, reduced length of stay (both in relation to prison inpatient services and external NHS or independent in-patient services).

You will perform robust assessment, screening, and interventions to offenders with a learning disability,

ensure that all waiting time, assessment and interventions are delivered in a timely manner, and positively contribute to the achievement of the service’s performance targets.

You will ensure integrated and collaborative working with other specialist services, including continuity of care and through the gate arrangements and liaison.

Working closely with community mental health teams (CMHTs) you will ensure appropriate sharing of information, continuity of care and the Care Programme Approach (CPA) for all offenders as necessary.

will 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.

You will also provide supervision to junior staff and to receive supervision as directed (line management and clinical).

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 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

To participate in resource centre services as directed, delivering psychological therapy and specialist activities under the direction of the clinical lead.

To work in a psychologically minded way with offenders in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.

Close working relationships with all prison staff, to include participation in sentence planning, resettlement, safer custody, and ACCT processes.

To develop and take on a specialist lead role as appropriate and provide peer support and training in this area.

To contribute towards support, advice, consultation, and training for other prison departments.

The post holder will be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising 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 ensure a named care co-ordinator is allocated for every patient with complex needs who will ensure a proactive, evidence-based approach to clinical interventions, health promotion/prevention activity, and management of acute and long-term conditions using our stepped care approach.

The post holder will ensure that a single, integrated, care plans developed, and the individualised care is regularly reviewed.

The post holder will ensure that a comprehensive risk assessments and care plans are regularly reviewed in