Mental Health Practitioner

at  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.
We are currently recruiting for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Mental Health Practitioner’s to join our friendly team at HMP Bristol. We are located just off the bustling, quirky, Gloucester Road; the longest Road in the UK for independent shops bars, coffee shops and restaurants. The ideal place to relax whether it’s after a rewarding day’s work with colleagues or spending time with your friends and family. You’ll never be bored, especially as we’re based in the heart of Bristol, which means you’ll be living your best life outside of work, with all that this metropolitan city has to offer.
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
An exciting rare opportunity has arisen with the mental health team in the male prison estate. If you are dedicated, enthusiastic and motivated mental health professionals, and hold a NMC/ HCPC or SWE registration; we are waiting for you to join our awesome ,well-established and passionate mental health team. We work closely with our partner agencies offering an integrated holistic care approach.
We are keen to work with staff interests not only to enhance our services but to support and invest in you to provide job fulfilment. We are committed to offering training and development in therapeutic intervention and management skills and are dedicated to encourage and support staff to specialise in areas of specific interest within mental health.
You will work alongside our multi-disciplinary team at HMP Bristol and work closely with a variety of other professionals such as Social Workers, Neurodevelopmental nurses, Dual Diagnosis Practitioners, Psychiatrists, Nurses, GPs, Psychologists and Prison Officers etc.
Employees at HMP Bristol can enjoy access to the gym and personal trainers are on hand to give you support and advice with using the gym if you need it. We also have access to classes such as yoga and access to multi-faith and chapel facilities.
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
To perform robust assessment, screening, and interventions to service users with mental health and neurodevelopmental and trauma need.
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.
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

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