Bank Mental Health Practitioner -Kent Prisons | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Borstal; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks a Mental Health Practitioner to deliver specialist mental healthcare to offenders in a multidisciplinary team setting. The role involves managing a caseload of offenders with mental health conditions, delivering evidence-based interventions and psychological therapy, and providing clinical leadership and supervision. Applicants should have relevant experience and skills to support this challenging yet rewarding role.

Qualifications

• Experience providing specialist mental healthcare to offenders.
• Ability to manage caseloads of offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions.
• Strong skills in psychological therapy and evidence-based interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders within a multidisciplinary team.
• Deliver psychological therapy and specialist activities under clinical supervision.
• Manage a mixed caseload and contribute to alternatives to inpatient admissions.

Job description

Responsibilities and Key Tasks

As a Mental Health Practitioner you will provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders as part of the Mental Health In‑Reach Team and wider multidisciplinary team (MDT). You will work in a psychologically minded way with offenders in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.

• Deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level, including referral management, screening assessment, triage, evidence‑based interventions, care planning and risk assessment, one‑to‑one and group‑work facilitation.
• Manage a mixed and challenging caseload of offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions, performing robust assessment, screening and interventions.
• Contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assist with early discharge through implementation of high‑intensity interventions and complex case management arrangements, reducing length of stay in prison inpatient services and external NHS/independent in‑patient services.
• Work closely with community mental health teams (CMHTs) to ensure appropriate sharing of information, continuity of care and the Care Programme Approach (CPA) for all offenders as necessary.
• Provide active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required, and receive supervision as directed (line management and clinical).
• Deliver psychological therapy and specialist activities under the direction of the clinical lead, participating in resource centre services as directed.
• Develop and take on a specialist lead role as appropriate, providing peer support and training in this area, and contribute towards support, advice, consultation and training for prison staff.
• Ensure that a single, integrated, care plan is devolved in collaboration with service users, facilitating the development of comprehensive risk assessment, crisis plans, rapid access plans and advance statements involving other agencies such as primary care where appropriate.
• Support patients to manage all areas of their health at every stage, embedding health promotion into every aspect of the service and achieving a proactive, evidence‑based approach to clinical interventions and health promotion/prevention activity.

Disability Confident Statement

Disability confident – a disability confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high‑volume, seasonal and high‑peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non‑disabled people.