Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

at  Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The Enhanced Support Service team is commissioned by NHS England as part of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway and works alongside clinical & discipline staff to provide individualised assessment, care/management plans and risk assessment for a small caseload of often challenging patients.
T hi s service aims to redu c e the negative impact of violent and disrupti v e behaviour in prison s using a dedicated multi-disciplinary staff team that works in partnersh i p across prison, health c are, and For e nsic Psy c hology s ervices. This partner s hip underpin s the design, implementation, and succes s ful delivery of this service.
You will be required to input into internal and external meetings regarding the clients that are part of the ESS service. The post-holder will be a resource to staff across healthcare and the wider prison providing advice and support to the care of these service users to ensure best outcomes.
The ESS will target the small minority of prisoners in the e s tablishment who demon s trat e severe and persistent violent and disruptive behaviour that has not responded to existing strategies and inter v entions. Staff will work intensively with prisoners in a c ollaborati v e manner to develop motivation to facilitate better settlement, improved psychological wellbeing and in the long term, access to sentence planning services for this population. The team will work i n a psychologically informed manner and be supported b y formulations ba s ed on understanding of the prisoner s with whom the y a r e working. The team will work indirectly with staff to increase understanding an d appr o priate management of these prisoners.
The post-holder will be required to input into internal and external meetings regarding the clients that are part of the ESS service
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document

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