Senior RMN in Eccleshall

Are you an experienced RMN (Registered Mental Health Nurse) looking to advance and diversify your career as a nurse? Why not break into prison healthcare? Our Integrated Mental Health and Substance Misuse Team at Drake Hall is looking for a dynamic and experienced registered mental health nurse. Our team is innovative, forward thinking and committed to a recovery focused approach.

This is an exciting and diverse role for an individual who is passionate about providing excellent quality nursing care. You will have the privilege to influence and shape the provision of high-quality mental health care to some of society's most vulnerable members. HMP/YOI Drake Hall offers the opportunity to work with female offenders in a trauma informed way. Individuals are offered mental health and substance misuse assessment and from the information gathered a more personalised care plan is developed, based on evidence-based interventions like Compassion Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural therapy and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR).

Main duties of the job

• Provision of mental health interventions to women within the prison establishment across wellbeing, primary and secondary mental health.
• Responsible for managing their own caseload, including assessments, care planning, delivering interventions and reviewing care of patients located within the prison with a mental illness, within the framework of the multi-disciplinary team and Care Programme Approach.
• Work as an integral member of the multi-disciplinary, multi-agency team to provide advice and support to primary health care based within the prison and to liaise with and provide advice and support to statutory and non‑statutory agencies both within the prison estate and community.
• Provide specialist mental health interventions to service users in the prison.

About us

Inclusion, created in 2002, is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, supporting individuals, families and communities affected by addiction, crime, mental health or sexual health.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities. Here is a summary:

• Responsible for the management of own caseload, this will include the assessment, monitoring and provision of specialist nursing interventions to individual prisoners with secondary mental health needs. In addition, the post holder is responsible for arranging aftercare as required and ensuring care is co‑ordinated with other services if necessary.
• Provide a range of interventions across the integrated offender health model this includes primary care and wellbeing interventions where appropriate.
• Support and liaise with substance misuse team, primary care team and deliver wellbeing interventions.
• Act upon referrals from Prison based Primary Care staff, and external teams.
• Provide assessment, implementation and development of care programmes for individuals on their caseload.
• Be aware of policies relating to vulnerable adults and mental capacity and to be able to work within this framework.
• Work within the Mental Health Act 1983 with a robust knowledge of how it is deployed within the criminal justice service.
• Be familiar with and ensure implementation of all local, regional and national policies, procedures and guidelines pertinent to all staff within area of responsibility and comply with their contents in the pursuit of the highest standards of patient care.

Person Specification

• Qualifications: Registered Mental Health Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council Register. Evidence of recent CPD and compliance with NMC revalidation.
• Experience: Considerable experience of working in the mental health field. Experience of providing specialist interventions for those with mental health problems, counselling techniques, CBT, motivational interviewing. Experience of caseload management to include assessments, care planning, risk assessment and provision of appropriate, patient led therapeutic interventions.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.