Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Mental Health Practitioner to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient. 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 patient’s 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. This position isn’t just a job; it’s a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.
Responsibilities
- Provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders as part of the Mental Health In‑Reach Team.
- Deliver referral management, screening assessment, triage, evidence‑based interventions, care planning and risk assessment across primary and secondary care levels.
- Facilitate one‑to‑one and group work sessions with offenders.
- Manage a mixed, challenging caseload performing robust assessment, screening and interventions for offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions.
- Contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and support early discharge through high‑intensity interventions and complex case‑management arrangements.
- Ensure continuity of care for offenders on ordinary location, reducing length of stay in prison and external NHS/independent inpatient services.
- Work closely with community mental health teams (CMHTs) to ensure information sharing and Care Programme Approach (CPA) for all offenders or service users.
- Deliver timely and comprehensive reports and mental‑health expertise to multi‑agency public protection panels (MAPPA), police, probation services, solicitors and court liaison teams.
- Provide active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for managers and colleagues as required.
- Receive supervision as directed (line management and clinical).
- Maintain close working relationships with prison staff, participating in sentence planning, resettlement, safer custody and ACCT processes.
- Undertake training to maximise uptake of screening, health promotion and prevention activity, including vaccinations.
- Coordinate care use with secondary mental health services and complex needs, ensuring a proactive, evidence‑based approach to clinical interventions and health promotion/prevention activity.
- Manage acute and long‑term conditions using a stepped‑care approach.
- Ensure all waiting time, assessment and intervention targets are met, contributing positively to performance targets.
- Ensure integrated and collaborative working with other specialist services, gate arrangements and liaison.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Willingness to undertake National Security Vetting as part of the pre‑employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
- Right to work in the UK supported by appropriate documentation (proof of ID, proof of address, etc.).
- Proof of UK passport or, for non‑passport holders, correct documentation, address history of five years, and where applicable a police certificate in English from each country previously lived.
- Evidence of experience managing mental health caseloads, including offenders with learning disabilities and trauma needs.
- Knowledge of Care Programme Approach (CPA) and CMHT working.
- Commitment to providing inclusive care and the ability to work in a psychologically minded way with offenders.
Inclusivity Statement
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. If you meet the minimum criteria for this role and have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.
About the Provider
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environments. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services, delivering healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. Our wider services include community health care such as district nursing, speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. We have over 4,300 staff across 125 sites. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to patients and their families. Our values: We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care.
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