The seven prisons are located across three estates: Isle of Sheppey, Rochester, and Maidstone. The Isle of Sheppey prisons are within a few minutes' walk of each other, and East Sutton Park is approximately 7 miles from Maidstone.
Please note this role is to join the Trust Bank, and shifts are as and when required.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
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. Your role involves working in a psychologically minded way to help offenders achieve their goals and health outcomes.
Our Mental Health Team offers interventions at primary and secondary care levels, including referral management, screening assessments, triage, evidence-based interventions, care planning, risk assessments, and facilitating one-to-one and group work. Our Mental Health Nurses manage a diverse caseload, including offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions, performing assessments, screenings, and interventions.
You will contribute to reducing inpatient admissions and facilitate early discharges through high-intensity interventions and complex case management. A key aim is to ensure continuity of care for offenders on various locations, reducing lengths of stay in prison inpatient services and external NHS or private inpatient services.
You will collaborate closely with community mental health teams to share information and ensure continuity of care via the Care Programme Approach where necessary.
Our Values
* We're Kind
* We're Fair
* We Listen
* We Care
Additional Responsibilities
* Perform assessments, screenings, and interventions for service users with mental health, neurodevelopmental, and trauma needs.
* Ensure timely delivery of assessments and interventions, contributing to performance targets.
* Work collaboratively with other specialist services, ensuring continuity of care and through-the-gate arrangements.
* Share information and provide reports to multi-agency panels, police, probation, solicitors, and court liaison teams as required.
* Provide clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering managerial and clinical duties, and receive supervision as directed.
About Disability Confident
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About Oxleas
Oxleas provides NHS healthcare services in community and secure environments, including community health care, mental health services, and care for people with learning disabilities. We operate across many settings, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, and community locations, with over 4,300 staff across 125+ sites in the South of England.
We are proud of the care we provide and our dedicated team.
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