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Due to our ongoing success as the healthcare provider at HMP Guys Marsh, we are expanding opportunities. We are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Mental Health Practitioner to join our friendly team at HMP Guys Marsh.
Our healthcare team has a direct impact on promoting health and well-being for those in prison. We use 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.
As part of our mental health team, you will benefit from NHS AfC employment (including pension) with opportunities for career and personal development to increase clinical and interpersonal skills.
Important Sponsorship Information: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
As a Mental Health Practitioner you will provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider mental health services. You will work in a psychologically minded way to help offenders achieve agreed goals and quality health outcomes.
Our Mental Health Team provides specialist interventions at primary and secondary care levels, including referral management, screening assessment, triage, evidence-based interventions, care planning and risk assessment, plus one-to-one and group-work facilitation. You will manage a mixed and challenging caseload and perform robust assessment, screening and interventions for offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. You will contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assist with early discharge through high-intensity interventions and complex case management.
One key aim is to ensure continuity of care for offenders on ordinary location and reduce length of stay, in relation to prison inpatient services and external NHS/independent inpatient services. You will work closely with community mental health teams to ensure information sharing, continuity of care and the Care Programme Approach where necessary.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure settings. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services, delivering care to prisons in Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. Our healthcare departments operate across three prisons in the Dorset cluster, each requiring a bespoke service responsive to prisoner needs.
* HMP Guys Marsh – Cat C – Population = 550
* HMP Portland – Cat C – Population = 530
* HMP The Verne – Cat C – Population = 600
Oxleas is the lead provider across 10 South West prisons and operates in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Devon in addition to the above. Our wider services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care including psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our 4,300 staff work in various settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes. We have over 125 sites in the South of England.
Our purpose is to Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families, guided by our values. We’re Kind. We’re Fair. We Listen. We Care.
For further details or informal visits contact: Name: Danielle Blackmore, Head of Healthcare. Email: danielle.blackmore3@nhs.net
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* Entry level
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* Full-time
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* Health Care Provider
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