Mental Health Care Co-Ordinator

at  Barnet Enfield Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Our BEH London Prison situated in South London, has a vacancy for a Mental Health Care Co-ordinator. The core of this role is to support the delivery of care, which is currently in the form of New Models of Care.
The ideal candidate will need to ensure they are operating in line with the New Models of care by providing a high standard to individuals within our prison settings who are presenting with mental health problems.
The post holder will work with staff across healthcare and the wider prison establishment, providing specialist advice particularly to GPs in the assessment and treatment of patients on the prison residential wings.
The successful candidate will need to adapt to and embrace a recovery and enablement model to seamlessly realign prisoners with mental health problems alongside their local community- based mental health service upon release from prison.
The Care co-ordinator will be a qualified RMN with sound experience in Mental Health, knowledge and experience of forensic mental health service provision and offender care.
As well as the outstanding development opportunities within the Health in Justice Team, This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Mental Health care-coordinator to join our Trust as our prison services are transforming in partnership with other healthcare providers.
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To work as a member of the Mental Health Service at HMP Brixton.
To work across the service functions including early days in custody, planned care, crisis care and release and transfer.
To be responsible for implementing sound clinical skills in mental health practice, including CPA care co-ordination, group work, risk assessment and management and crisis intervention.
Be responsible and accountable for the management of own caseload as directed by the Mental Health Hub Manager.
To provide skilled assessments of patients’ emotional and psychological needs based upon the understanding, interpretation and integration of complex data given by the patient and obtained from other sources.
To provide psychosocial interventions for patients with moderate to complex mental health difficulties.
Jointly facilitate group work with multi-disciplinary colleagues (including education staff)
To complete clinical risk assessments at first and subsequent assessment interview and accurately record and report key risks
To develop care plans in collaboration with the patient, carer and other relevant person or agency.
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
Generous Annual Leave Allowance
NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:
We are kind
We are respectful
We work together
We keep things simple
We empower
We are proudly diverse
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work.
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