Senior Mental Health Nurse

1 month ago


Aylesbury, United Kingdom Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job overview

Oxford Health Foundation Trust Forensic Service is developing and delivering a new integrated model of mental health care for men in prisons across the region. We are looking for forward thinking, innovative, creative, compassionate and thoughtful senior mental health nurses who will be able to offer a wide range of interventions in HMP Grendon near Aylesbury, which is a Category B prison, operating as a therapeutic community for approximately 240 men. 

You will be managing a caseload of patients in a person-centred way to plan, deliver and evaluate care, whilst being supported by a well-resourced multidisciplinary team. You will be able to develop your own practice, and support others to develop theirs, in partnership with primary health care providers and prison staff.

Main duties of the job

To provide mental health interventions to service users within the prison establishment.

To be responsible for managing a caseload, including the assessment, planning, delivery of interventions and review of care of patients located within the prison with a mental illness, within the framework of the multi-disciplinary team and Care Programme Approach.

To work as an integral member of the multi-disciplinary, multi-agency team to provide advice and support to primary health care based within the prison, and to liaise with and provide advice and support to, statutory and non-statutory agencies.

To support the team manager in delivering identified objectives in terms of patient care, staff and service development.

Working for our organisation

Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:

Excellent opportunities for career progression 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers Staff accommodation Competitive pension scheme Lease car scheme Cycle to work scheme

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide mental health interventions to service users within the prison establishment.

Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for full duties.

Person specification

NMC registration

Essential criteria

Current registration

Desirable criteria

Experience in field of criminal justice

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of providing specialist interventions for those with mentalhealth problems

Desirable criteria

Experience of developing and delivering group work.

Contractual Requirements

Essential criteria

Ability to undertake mandatory training

Desirable criteria

Valid Driving Licence All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.  We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent. Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

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