Mental Health Practitioner
3 weeks ago
Job summary
Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to breakinto offender healthcare and develop your career.
As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Mental Health Nurse to join our friendly team at HMP Ashfield. We have both full and part-time positions available.
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
As part of our mental health team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
Main duties of the job
As a Mental Health Practitioner you will be providing specialist mental healthcare to offenders and working as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team, plus wider mental health services. You will be required to work in a psychologically minded way with offenders in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.
Our Mental Health Team provide specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level including; referral management, screening assessment, triage, evidence-based interventions, care planning and risk assessing, plus one-to-one and group-work facilitation.
Our Mental Health Practitioners manage a mixed and challenging caseload and are required to perform robust assessment, screening and interventions to offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. You will contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assisting with early discharge through the implementation of high intensity interventions and complex case management arrangements.
One of our key aims is to ensure continuity of care for an offender on ordinary location and reduce the length of stay, both in relation to prison inpatient services and external NHS/independent in-patient services. You will work closely with community mental health teams to ensure appropriate sharing of information, continuity of care and the Care Programme Approach for all offenders as necessary.
About us
Oxleas - About Us
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 KindWe're FairWe ListenWe Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
To communicate effectively on a range of issues that are often complex in their nature and in complex situations.
Participate in the annual appraisal reviews and demonstrate reflective practice through the Knowledge and Skills Framework
To maintain comprehensive and timely electronic clinical records ensuring confidentiality is maintained at all times.
Provide supervision, mentorship & leadership for junior staff.
Take all necessary care in the working environment, adhering to relevant health and safety policies.
Participate and positively contribute to the services integrated clinical governance arrangements
Carry out administrative tasks as directed including research, audit, data, and activity statistics.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
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 photographicID
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 ( ).
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
Diploma level/Degree in relevant health/social care profession, eg RMN, RLDN OT, Social Worker. Current relevant registration with the NMC or HCPC Desirable relevant, post registration training in one of the following areas: ?Learning disability ?Personality disorder ?Substance misuse/dual diagnosis ?Psychological therapies
Experience
Essential
Two years substantive post-registration experience gained working in a range of frontline adult mental health services, undertaking assessment and delivering interventions.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
oCommitment to CPD, is able to deliver from a range of possible key therapeutic interventions CBT, Psychosocial interventions, Family Interventions, DBT approaches. oDemonstrates a developed understanding of the recovery principles, and the role of secondary mental health services in the delivery of care o Experience of undertaking carers' assessments oDemonstrates substantial experience of, and relevant professional practice qualification in mentoring/assessing students and learners-
Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner
2 months ago
Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Full timeJob overview 🕬 Calling all Mental Health Practitioners A number of exciting opportunities have arisen to provide your expertise working in Primary Care as part of a General Practice team. These roles will be based in Network 4 Primary Care Network practices in South Gloucestershire, bordering Bristol & Bath.We are redesigning our community mental health...
-
Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner ARRS BNSSG
1 month ago
Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Full timeJob overview This new role of Specialist Mental Health Practitioner for Primary Care is fundamental to the development and leadership of innovative new teams and integrated mental health services based within Primary Care Networks (PCNs – which are networks of GP Practices) under the 'Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme' (ARRS).The role promotes and...
-
Mental Health Practitioner
2 months ago
Bristol, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full time**Mental Health Practitioner - Ashfield - Band 6** To provide specialist mental healthcare to service users and to work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider MDT. To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level; to include - Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidence-based...
-
Community Mental Health Practitioner
3 weeks ago
Bristol, United Kingdom Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Full timeThis new role of Specialist Mental Health Practitioner for Primary Care is fundamental to the development and leadership of innovative new teams and integrated mental health services based within Primary Care Networks (PCNs - which are networks of GP Practices) under the 'Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme' (ARRS) . The role promotes and provides...
-
Mental Health Practitioner
5 days ago
Bristol, United Kingdom Medical Staffing Full time**Role: Mental Health Practitioner** **Location: Bristol** **Medical Staffing** is delighted to offer a great opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced Mental Health Practitioner who wishes to develop their career within an exceptional primary care environment. **The duties** of the role may vary from time to time depending on current and...
-
Mental Health Practitioner
2 weeks ago
Bristol, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full time**Mental Health Practitioner - Band 6- HMP Ashfield** **Job Summary** To provide specialist mental healthcare to service users and to work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider MDT. To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level; to include - Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and...
-
Education Mental Health Practitioner
2 months ago
Bristol, United Kingdom Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time**Are you looking for an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people?** We are recruiting a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) to join the Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) MHST. The team works with schools across the Bath and North East Somerset footprint. Your role will be to deliver 1:1 and group...
-
Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner ARRS BNSSG
4 weeks ago
Bristol, United Kingdom Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Full timeJob overview This new role of Specialist Mental Health Practitioner for Primary Care is fundamental to the development and leadership of innovative new teams and integrated mental health services based within Primary Care Networks (PCNs – which are networks of GP Practices) under the ‘Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme’ (ARRS). The role...
-
Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner ARRS BNSSG
1 month ago
Bristol, United Kingdom Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Full timeJob overview This new role of Specialist Mental Health Practitioner for Primary Care is fundamental to the development and leadership of innovative new teams and integrated mental health services based within Primary Care Networks (PCNs – which are networks of GP Practices) under the ‘Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme’ (ARRS). The role...
-
Mental Health Practitioner
6 days ago
Bristol, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full timeMental Health Practitioner - Ashfield - Band 6 To provide specialist mental healthcare to service users and to work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider MDT. To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level; to include - Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidence-based interventions -...
-
Mental Health Practitioner
2 months ago
Bristol, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full timeMental Health Practitioner - Ashfield - Band 6 To provide specialist mental healthcare to service users and to work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider MDT. To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level; to include - Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidence-based interventions -...
-
Paediatric Mental Health Practitioner
3 days ago
Bristol, United Kingdom University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust Full timePaediatric Mental Health Practitioner Children’s Emergency Department Come and join our team. We are a growing, thriving & innovative Children’s Emergency Department. Our vision is: To be a world leading children’s emergency department providing the best care for all children. The Bristol Royal Hospital for Children (BRHC) BRHC is the paediatric...
-
Education Mental Health Practitioner
2 weeks ago
Bristol, United Kingdom Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Full timeAre you looking for an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people? We are recruiting a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) to join the Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) MHST. The team works with schools across the Bath and North East Somerset footprint. Your role will be to deliver 1:1 and group...
-
Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner ARRS BNSSG
3 weeks ago
Bristol, United Kingdom Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Full timeJob summary This new role of Specialist Mental Health Practitioner for Primary Care is fundamental to the development and leadership of innovative new teams and integrated mental health services based within Primary Care Networks (PCNs - which are networks of GP Practices) under the 'Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme' (ARRS) . The role...
-
Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner ARRS BNSSG
2 weeks ago
Bristol, United Kingdom Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Full timeJob summary This new role of Specialist Mental Health Practitioner for Primary Care is fundamental to the development and leadership of innovative new teams and integrated mental health services based within Primary Care Networks (PCNs - which are networks of GP Practices) under the 'Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme' (ARRS) . The role...
-
Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner ARRS BNSSG
3 weeks ago
Bristol, United Kingdom Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Full timeThis new role of Specialist Mental Health Practitioner for Primary Care is fundamental to the development and leadership of innovative new teams and integrated mental health services based within Primary Care Networks (PCNs - which are networks of GP Practices) under the 'Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme' (ARRS) . The role promotes and...
-
Mental Health Practitioner
2 months ago
Bristol, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full timeMental Health Practitioner - Band 6 - HMP Bristol Job Summary To provide specialist mental healthcare to service users and to work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider MDT. To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level; to include - Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidence-based...
-
Mental Health Practitioner
2 weeks ago
Bristol, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full timeMental Health Practitioner - Band 6 - HMP Bristol Job Summary To provide specialist mental healthcare to service users and to work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider MDT. To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level; to include - Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidence-based...
-
Bristol, United Kingdom Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Full timeWe are recruiting for a Specialist Recovery Practitioners with the North Bristol Assessment and Recovery Team. We cover the Northern area of Bristol localities and support a diverse local population presenting with complex mental health and social care needs. We are looking for a Specialist Recovery Practitioner with a passion for delivering high...
-
Urgent Care Mental Health Practitioner
3 weeks ago
Bristol, United Kingdom Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Full timeMaternity leave cover role until end of March 2025 (contract duration will depend on start date). We are looking for a motivated clinician to join our South Gloucestershire CAMHS locality team based at Kingswood Hub and Patchway Hubs. You will have relevant qualification, core profession registration and experience of working with children and young people,...
