Prison Inreach Mental Health Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We have some exciting opportunities for Band 6 Senior Practitioner for our Integrated Mental Health team at HMP Belmarsh contributing to the Mental Health service delivery in HMP Belmarsh.

This is a newly created post following a service redesign. This post holder will be an expert practitioner, and a source of expert advice to the in-reach team, prison staff, & offenders with overall responsibility for the mental and physical health & well-being of offenders in their care, operational management and day-to-day leadership of the in-reach teams at HMP Belmarsh

We are seeking to appoint a qualified RMN with relevant post qualifying experience in any of the following areas:

Learning Disability
Personality Disorder
Substance Misuse/Dual Diagnosis
Mentally Disordered Offenders

The successful post holder will be required to pass all prison security including CTC clearance.

We are seeking to appoint a qualified RMN with post qualifying experience working within mental health services. Knowledge and experience of mental health assessment, Care Programme Approach (CPA) and caseload management is essential.

Oxleas NHS Trust operates a Probationary Period, further details are available on request.

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

The secondary mental health team at HMP Belmarsh is a well-established team. The vacancy has arisen due to the retirement of the previous post holder.

You will be directly line managed by the Mental Health Team manager and from a health perspective will work closely with our Consultant Psychiatrist and other team members, as well as primary mental health services, primary care services and clinical and psychosocial substance misuse services.

We are seeking to appoint a qualified RMN with post qualifying experience working within mental health services. Knowledge and experience of mental health assessment, Care Programme Approach (CPA) and caseload management is essential.

Oxleas NHS Trust operates a Probationary Period, further details are available on request.