Advanced Community Access Practitioner

NHS; Kingston upon Hull; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a highly motivated Advanced Community Access Practitioner. This role involves working with adult males presenting with mental health issues in prison. Candidates must have relevant professional qualifications and strong leadership skills. Experience in developing partnerships and delivering high-quality care is essential. The position offers flexible hours and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Registered practitioner with professional body.
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Oversee prisoner pathways from reception to release.
• Develop strong therapeutic relationships with service users.
• Deliver high quality care to complex cases.

Skills

Effective communication skills

Leadership experience

Ability to manage time effectively

Ability to work across organisational boundaries

Ability to motivate staff

Education

Professional qualification relevant to practice area

Educated to master's Level

Job description

We are looking for a highly motivated, confident Advanced Community Access Practitioner who has a strong interest in prison work.

The post will involve working with adult males within HMP Full Sutton or Millsike who present with risky behaviours and display signs of mental health difficulties.

The post holder will be working within our growing group of forensic services which is closely aligned to our in-patient services and wider Humber & North Yorkshire Specialist Provider Collaborative. Full and part time hours will be considered.

This is a great opportunity to be involved with new partnerships within the prisons; including Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust as the lead provider delivering the mental health element alongside Rethink Mental Illness.

Main duties of the job

The Advanced Community Access Practitioner will oversee prisoner pathways from reception into the prison estate through to release. The role is responsible for forging working alliances with local inpatient and community partners to develop effective reintegration pathways for patients.

The Advanced Community Access Practitioner will develop strong therapeutic working relationships with service users, offering consistent engagement from initial referral to an identified Mental Health/LD provision.

The Advanced Community Access Practitioner will develop robust working relationships with local and partner agencies and services across the statutory, voluntary, and independent sectors i.e., MAPPA, Private Providers and Local Authority Departments.

The post holder will deliver high quality care to a caseload of complex mental health and learning disability offenders as part of a liaison and an in-reach provision.

The post holder will also be working within our growing group of forensic services which is closely aligned to our in-patient services and wider Humber & North Yorkshire Specialist Provider Collaborative.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Job responsibilities

For further information regarding this vacancy please see the Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Registered practitioner with professional body.
• Professional qualification relevant to practice area, with study to degree level
• Educated to master's Level or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge or experiential learning/experience
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified service area
• Detailed understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical/service/organisation e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Health & Safety, Infection Control
• Evidence of leadership skills and experience which have contributed to effective service delivery and development
• Member of organisational group/network, locally or nationally
• Be qualified to deliver a mode of therapeutic intervention with clinical relevance to the role and service user

Experience

• Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice
• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the professional lead area to advanced level of post-graduate diploma or equivalent knowledge / experiential learning
• Proven leadership experience
• Experience of organisational and professional networking
• Ability to work across organisational boundaries, developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
• Advanced management / leadership training / qualification or equivalent experience
• Proven experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing

Skills and Competencies

• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
• Ability to manage own time and projects effectively
• Ability to work within a culture of improving working lives and working time directive
• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change
• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
• Ability to commute between the various sites

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.

HMP Full Sutton & Millsike / Humber Centre for Forensic Psychiatry

HMP Full Sutton & Millsike / Humber Centre for Forensic Psychiatry