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 a team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals who deliver efficient, patient‑centered care in prisons.
Important Sponsorship Information: This position is not eligible for a certificate of sponsorship.
Main duties of the job
As a Mental Health Practitioner you will provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders, working as part of the Mental Health In‑Reach Team and wider services. You will work in a psychologically minded way with offenders to achieve agreed goals and high‑quality health outcomes. Responsibilities include referral management, screening assessment, triage, evidence‑based interventions, care planning, risk assessment, and one‑to‑one and group facilitation.
Responsibilities
* To provide mental health nursing care to offenders.
* To support senior staff in the development of high‑quality mental health care through the effective assessment, development, and implementation programmes.
* To assess care needs and provide high quality nursing care as a member of a multi‑disciplinary team for offenders who have mental health care needs utilising the CPA processes and risk assessment & care planning.
* To maintain accurate, legible records of care provided based upon the CPA care plan process, incorporating relevant communication and liaison with other care providers and the wider prison establishment.
* To promote the overall health and wellbeing of the offender population using evidence‑based practice.
* To work under the direction of senior staff to deliver and constantly strive to improve the offender healthcare services.
* To provide mental health care based on the principles of timely, comprehensive assessment and evidence based practice.
* To reduce or mitigate the effects of unhealthy or high risk behaviours (ACCT).
* To promote effective links with health and related services in the community to ensure continuity of care as appropriate (Care program Approach, CPA).
* To work as part of a multi‑disciplinary in‑patient team, comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway.
Qualifications
* Registered Mental Health Nurse with a current NMC registration.
* Experience assessing risks and developing care plans through employment or placement.
* Ability to conduct safe and effective assessment, triage and care planning for complex cases.
* Experience, interest or understanding of secure environments (prisons or forensic services).
* Understanding of the 1983 Mental Health Act and related legislation.
* Ability to present information in written and oral form and communicate effectively.
* Willingness to undertake National Security Vetting as part of pre‑employment checks.
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 are guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.
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