Mental Health Care Co-ordinator - Brixton, United Kingdom - Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

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Brixton, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Our BEH London Prison situated in South London, has a vacancy for a Mental Health Care Co-ordinator.

The core of this role is to support the delivery of care, which is currently in the form of New Models of Care.

The post holder will work with staff across healthcare and the wider prison establishment, providing specialist advice particularly to GPs in the assessment and treatment of patients on the prison residential wings.

- based mental health service upon release from prison.

The Care co-ordinator will be a qualified RMN with sound experience in Mental Health, knowledge and experience of forensic mental health service provision and offender care.

As well as the outstanding development opportunities within the Health in Justice Team, This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Mental Health care-coordinator to join our Trust as our prison services are transforming in partnership with other healthcare providers.

Please kindly clink the link below to watch a summary about the Specialist services Team: Meet the Specialist Services team at BEH - Jonathan Stephen - YouTube

To work as a member of the Mental Health Service at HMP Brixton.

To work across the service functions including early days in custody, planned care, crisis care and release and transfer.

To be responsible for implementing sound clinical skills in mental health practice, including CPA care co-ordination, group work, risk assessment and management and crisis intervention.

Be responsible and accountable for the management of own caseload as directed by the Mental Health Hub Manager.

To provide skilled assessments of patients' emotional and psychological needs based upon the understanding, interpretation and integration of complex data given by the patient and obtained from other sources.

To provide psychosocial interventions for patients with moderate to complex mental health difficulties.

Jointly facilitate group work with multi-disciplinary colleagues (including education staff)

To complete clinical risk assessments at first and subsequent assessment interview and accurately record and report key risks

To develop care plans in collaboration with the patient, carer and other relevant person or agency.

Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people. We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people.

Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions.

We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.

We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored.

Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert