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

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 6 Senior Practitioners to join our In-reach team at HMP Wandsworth contributing to the Mental Health team delivery at HMP Wandsworth.

The post holder will be an expert practitioner, and a source of expert advice to the Primary Care team, Substance Misuse team, Prison staff, and 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 team at HMP Wandsworth.

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

Learning Disability
Personality Disorder
Substance Misuse/Dual Diagnosis
Mentally Disordered Offenders
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.
Provide supervision to junior staff and to receive supervision as directed (line management and clinical).
To participate in resource centre services as directed, delivering psychological therapy and specialist activities under the direction of the clinical lead.
To work in a psychologically minded way with offenders in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.
No direct budgetary responsibility, but must be aware of the financial impact of decisionmaking.
Close working relationships with all prison and Serco staff, to include participation in sentence planning, resettlement, safer custody and ACCT processes.
To develop and take on a specialist lead role as appropriate, and provide peer support and training in this area.
To contribute towards support, advice, consultation and training for other prison departments

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

Main responsibilities will include

To provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders and to work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider mental health services in HMP Wandsworth.
To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level to include:

Referral management, screening assessment, triage and evidence based interventions
One-to-one and group-work facilitation
assertive outreach interventions
managing a mixed and challenging caseload

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 offenders as necessary.