Mental Health Practitioner - Bristol, United Kingdom - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Description
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.
- Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidencebased interventions
- Care Planning and risk assessing
- Onetoone and groupwork facilitation
Key Principles of the health and wellbeing model for Prison Service:
Service user focus with health promotion at the heart of our care
Putting the right staff in the right place at the right time - specialist posts to ensure that experience is on hand to lead and support service users by employing specialist practitioners in neurodevelopmental long-term conditions, older adults, complex case practitioners and discharge coordinators.
Being highly supportive of clinical and prison staff with training and support enabling the team to work smarter and as part of an effective MDT.
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.
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.
To 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.
To participate in resource centre services as directed, delivering psychological therapy and specialist activities under the direction of the clinical lead.
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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 Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
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.
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