Mental Health Nurse – Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
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 Nurse 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 has 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.
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.
We welcome applications from Newly Qualified Nurses who will undertake our award‑winning preceptorship programme. We also encourage experienced Band 5 nurses looking for a career in offender healthcare to apply.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
As a Mental Health Practitioner 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.
* Providing specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level, including referral management, screening assessment, triage, evidence‑based interventions, care planning and risk assessment, plus one‑to‑one and group‑work facilitation.
* Managing a mixed and challenging caseload and performing robust assessment, screening and interventions to offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions.
* Contributing to alternatives to inpatient admission and assisting with early discharge through the implementation of high intensity interventions and complex case management arrangements.
* Ensuring continuity of care for offenders on ordinary location and reducing length of stay, working closely with community mental health teams to ensure appropriate sharing of information and the Care Programme Approach for all offenders.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Andrea Bowler‑Warren – Job title: Deputy Head of Healthcare – Email address: andrea.bowler-warren@nhs.net
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