Mental Health Practitioner - Exeter, United Kingdom - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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Exeter, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

To provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders and to work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider mental health services.

To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level; to include

Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidencebased interventions
Care Planning and risk assessing
Onetoone and groupwork facilitation

- managing a mixed and challenging caseload

Key Principles of health and wellbeing model for Prison Service

Patient focused 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 patients e.g., leads in learning disability, long term conditions, older adults, complex case practitioners and discharge coordinators.

Designing and delivering healthcare for the unique needs of each prison.

Being highly supportive of clinical and prison staff with training and support enabling the team to work smarter and as part of an effective Multi Professional Team.

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
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.