Mental Health Practitioner

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Full time
Location: Bordon
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As a Mental Health Practitioner you will be providing specialist mental healthcare to offenders and working as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team, plus wider mental health services. You will be required to work in a psychologically minded way with offenders in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.

Our Mental Health Team provide specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level including referral management, screening assessment, triage, evidence-based interventions, care planning and risk assessing, plus one-to-one and group-work facilitation.

Our Mental Health Practitioners manage a mixed and challenging caseload and are required to perform robust assessment, screening and interventions to offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. You will contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assisting with early discharge through the implementation of high intensity interventions and complex case management arrangements.

One of our key aims is to ensure continuity of care for an offender on ordinary location and reduce the length of stay, both in relation to prison inpatient services and external NHS/independent in-patient services. You will work closely with community mental health teams to ensure appropriate sharing of information, continuity of care and the Care Programme Approach for all offenders as necessary.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist mental healthcare to service users and to work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider MDT.

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

Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidence-based interventions Care Planning and risk assessing One-to-one and group-work facilitation Managing a mixed and challenging caseload

Job responsibilities

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

To perform robust assessment, screening, and interventions to service users with mental health and neurodevelopmental and trauma needs. Ensure that all waiting time, assessment and interventions are delivered in a timely manner, and positively contribute to the achievement of the services performance targets. Ensure integrated and collaborative working with other specialist services, including continuity of care and through the gate arrangements and liaison. 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. Deliver active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required. 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 service users in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes. Close working relationships with all prison staff, to include participation in sentence planning, resettlement, safer custody, and the 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 prison staff. The post holder will be part of a skilled multidisciplinary team (MDT) comprising of all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway. The post holder will be required to undertake training to maximise uptake of screening, health promotion and prevention activity, including vaccinations. The post holder will be required to hold a caseload and care co-ordinate services uses with secondary mental health and complex needs. Ensuring a proactive, evidence-based approach to clinical interventions, health promotion/prevention activity, and management of acute and long-term conditions using a stepped care approach. The post holder will ensure that a single, integrated, care plan is devolved in collaboration with service users and responsible for facilitating the development of comprehensive risk assessment, crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate. Ensure the individualised care is regularly reviewed and updated where necessary. The post holder as a care coordinator will attend/contribute in a weekly MDT meeting for service uses on secondary case load and complex care needs. This will ensure a tailored individual needs approach. The post holder will ensure that they undertake all training in evidence-based CBT approaches, to enhance consistency and quality of care delivery. The post holder will support patients to manage all areas of their health at every stage, from oral health to long term conditions. The post holder will ensure that health promotion embedded into every aspect of the service.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential Diploma level/Degree in relevant health/social care profession, eg RMN, RLDN OT, Social Worker. Current relevant registration with the NMC or HCPC

Desirable Relevant, post registration training in one of the following areas: Learning disability, Personality disorder, Substance misuse/dual diagnosis, Psychological therapies

Experience

Essential Two years substantive post-registration experience gained working in a range of frontline adult mental health services, undertaking assessment and delivering interventions.

Desirable Relevant post-registration qualifications, such as Thorn, Non-Medical Prescribing, CBT, AMHP, Brief Interventions etc Experience gained in a wide variety of settings Working in a custodial setting

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

Essential Commitment to CPD, is able to deliver from a range of possible key therapeutic interventions CBT, Psychosocial interventions, Family Interventions, DBT approaches. Demonstrates a developed understanding of the recovery principles, and the role of secondary mental health services in the delivery of care. Experience of undertaking carers' assessments.

Employer details

Employer name Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Address HMP Swaleside Brabazon Road, Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey Kent ME12 4AX Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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