Bank Mental Nurse - HMP Verne

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Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast-paced work environment? Do you want to transition into offender healthcare and develop your career? Oxleas NHS Trust was awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and manages 19 prisons across the South of England. We are expanding our pool of bank workers by recruiting Mental Health Practitioners to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis.

Our healthcare team impacts health and well-being for those in prison, using skills that instill hope for future resettlement. We deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy, and Clinical Substance Misuse services in an integrated healthcare model to improve well-being and outcomes.

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 mental health services. You will work in a psychologically minded way to help offenders achieve their goals and health outcomes.

Our team offers interventions at primary and secondary care levels, including referral management, screening, assessment, triage, evidence-based interventions, care planning, risk assessment, and facilitating individual and group sessions.

You will manage a challenging caseload, performing assessments and interventions for offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. You will contribute to reducing inpatient admissions and support early discharges through high-intensity interventions and complex case management.

We aim to ensure continuity of care for offenders, reducing stays in prison inpatient services and external NHS/in-patient services. You will collaborate with community mental health teams to share information and ensure care continuity via the Care Programme Approach.

About Oxleas NHS Trust

Oxleas provides a wide range of NHS healthcare services including community health, mental health care, and secure environment services. Our multidisciplinary teams serve all ages across over 125 sites in the South of England, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, and community settings. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services in several regions.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care, guided by our values: We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care.

For further details or informal visits, contact:
Name: Carly Fudgell
Job title: Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer
Email: carly.fudgell@nhs.net

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