Overview
Join to apply for the Mental Health Practitioner role at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. You will be providing specialist mental healthcare to offenders and working as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team, plus wider mental health services. You will be required to work in a psychologically minded way with offenders in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.
Important Sponsorship Information: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Responsibilities
* Provide specialist mental healthcare to service users and work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider MDT.
* Deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level, including referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidence-based interventions.
* Develop and manage care planning and risk assessment; deliver robust assessment, screening and interventions to offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions.
* Contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assist with early discharge through high-intensity interventions and complex case management arrangements.
* Provide one-to-one and group-work facilitation; manage a mixed and challenging caseload; undertake training to maximise uptake of screening, health promotion and prevention activities (including vaccinations).
* Work closely with community mental health teams to ensure information sharing, continuity of care, and CPA (Care Programme Approach) where necessary.
* Provide comprehensive and timely reports and mental health expertise to multi-agency panels and partner agencies as directed.
* Deliver clinical leadership and supervision within the team; participate in MDT meetings and contribute to service development and peer training as appropriate.
* Engage in safeguarding and sentence planning processes and maintain close working relationships with prison staff.
* Develop a specialist lead role as appropriate and provide peer support and training in that area.
* Ensure a single, integrated care plan is developed with service users and regularly reviewed; contribute to risk/crisis planning and liaison with other agencies where appropriate.
Qualifications and Requirements
* Experience as a Mental Health Practitioner providing mental health care and interventions; ability to work with offenders and multidisciplinary teams.
* Proven ability to undertake robust assessment, screening, and evidence-based interventions, including CBT approaches where applicable.
* Willingness to undertake National Security Vetting to work in a prison setting (pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team).
* Ability to hold a caseload and coordinate care with secondary mental health services and complex needs, using a stepped-care approach.
* Ability to develop and maintain an integrated care plan with ongoing risk assessment and crisis planning; participate in weekly MDT meetings for service users with secondary caseloads.
* Evidence of up-to-date understanding of and adherence to information sharing, CPA, MAPPA, and multi-agency working where required.
* Right to work in the UK; provide required documents (proof of ID, address, and nationality). Non-UK passport holders should have appropriate right-to-work documentation; Home Office share code may be required.
* 5 years of address history if applicable; police certificates may be requested for certain circumstances; overseas checks may apply where relevant.
About Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
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 care to prisons across Kent, South London, and surrounding areas. Our staff work in hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure facilities, and community settings.
Equal Employment Opportunity
We are committed to equal opportunity and encourage applications from all qualified individuals.
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