Inreach Mental Health Practitioner

at  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has risen 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
In addition to the above an in-depth knowledge of the Care Programme Approach and experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team is required. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate excellent communication skills both written and verbal and an understanding of the Mental Health Act 1983 and in particular, management of patients within secure locations. Experience in prisons would be advantageous.
To perform robust assessment, screening and interventions to offenders with a mental health problem and be able to signpost to the relevant teams.
Manage mixed and or complex caseload
To be able to implement high intensity specialist interventions and complex case management arrangements resulting in continuity of care for an offender.
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 offenders as necessary.
To work in a psychologically minded way with offenders in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.
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.

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Car