Bank Mental Health Nurse (RMN) - HMP Guys Marsh

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Guy's Marsh; On-site; GBP 33,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in offender healthcare is seeking a dedicated Bank Mental Health Nurse to join their innovative team at HMP Guys Marsh. This role offers the chance to make a real difference in the lives of individuals within the prison system, providing essential mental health support and interventions. As a Mental Health Nurse, you will work flexibly in a challenging yet rewarding environment, collaborating with a diverse team of healthcare professionals to promote well-being and facilitate successful reintegration into society. If you are passionate about mental health and ready to embrace a fulfilling career, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Qualified RMN with experience in offender healthcare.
• Ability to assess risk and manage complex cases effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders in a prison setting.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure effective care.

Skills

Mental Health Nursing

Risk Assessment

Care Planning

Triage

Intervention Strategies

Multi-disciplinary Teamwork

Education

Qualified RMN

ENB 998 Course or equivalent

Tools

Care Programme Approach

Job description

Bank Mental Health Nurse (RMN) - HMP Guys Marsh

Band 5

Main area: Offender Healthcare

Grade: Band 5

Contract: Bank

Hours: Flexible working - 37.5 hours per week (Bank / Flexible)

Job ref: 277-BankMHNurse-B5-HMPGM

Site: HMP Guys Marsh

Town: Shaftesbury

Salary: £32,324 per annum pro-rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: Today at 23:59

Job overview

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast-paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.

Oxleas NHS Trust was awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and currently has a portfolio of 19 prisons across the South of England. We are looking to expand our pool of bank workers by recruiting Mental Health Nurses to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis.

Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instill 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 well-being and support better outcomes in the future.

Please note: In order to work as a bank-only worker, you will need to have completed preceptorship training or obtained 6 months post-qualification experience.

Main duties of the job

As a Mental Health Nurse, you will be providing specialist mental healthcare to offenders and working as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team, plus wider mental health services. You will be required to work in a psychologically minded way with offenders in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.

Our Mental Health Team provides specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level including referral management, screening assessment, triage, evidence-based interventions, care planning, and risk assessing, plus one-to-one and group-work facilitation.

Our Mental Health Nurses manage a mixed and challenging caseload and are required to perform robust assessment, screening, and interventions to offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. You will contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assist with early discharge through the implementation of high-intensity interventions and complex case management arrangements.

One of our key aims is to ensure continuity of care for an offender on ordinary location and reduce the length of stay, both in relation to prison inpatient services and external NHS/independent inpatient services. You will work closely with community mental health teams to ensure appropriate sharing of information, continuity of care, and the Care Programme Approach for all offenders as necessary.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas – About Us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector through our new provider collaboratives.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We Listen
• We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate the ability to work in a challenging and multi-agency environment, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team consisting of nursing and medical staff and a range of allied health professionals such as dentistry, optometry, physiotherapy, and podiatry.

Monitor and audit the quality and effectiveness of all aspects of service delivery.

Maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout an offender’s care pathway whilst detained in prison and admitted to the IPU.

To liaise with others to share expertise, promote ideas and work collaboratively with key stakeholders, agencies, and organisations as required.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Qualified RMN
• ENB 998 Course or equivalent

Experience

• An ability to assess risk and care-plan effectively
• An understanding of the 1983 Mental Health Act and subsequent mental health legislation as they pertain to nursing
• Ability to demonstrate the safe and effective assessment, triage, and care planning & interventions for complex cases
• Understanding and/or experience of secure environments (prisons or forensic services)

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview, if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name: Carly Fudgell

Job title: Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer

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