Enhanced Support Service Mental Health Nurse

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Greater London is seeking a motivated Senior Nurse Practitioner to join the Enhanced Support Service at HMP Wandsworth. The successful candidate will manage a caseload of complex patients, engaging in psychosocial interventions and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. This permanent full-time position offers a salary range of £56,276 to £63,176, reflecting the importance of delivering high-quality care in a challenging environment.

Benefits

NHS pension

Career development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Satisfactory post-qualification experience.
• Desirable: Worked in forensic or prisons.
• Trauma informed understanding is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage own caseload in the Enhanced Support Service.
• Conduct assessments of patients referred from various sources.
• Provide psychosocial interventions for complex mental health difficulties.

Skills

Effective communication

Teamwork

Psychosocial interventions

Education

Current UK professional registration

Job description

Job Summary

Do you enjoy working in a clinically stimulating environment? Are you a motivated senior nurse (RMN) who is committed to providing the best possible health care in a challenging and busy environment? In this role, your clinical skills and experience will make a significant contribution to improving the clinical outcomes for a complex patient population. The clinical work is varied, and with a population that is changing almost daily, you need to be well organised, motivated and willing to work with high levels of complexity.

Main duties of the job

The Enhanced Support Service (ESS) at HMP Wandsworth is looking for a dynamic, high calibre, motivated and enthusiastic Senior Nurse Practitioner who is committed to and passionate about working in a prison environment. The ESS is a multi‑disciplinary team (nurse, psychologist and officer) who work with a small caseload of prisoners at HMP Wandsworth, whose behaviour is complex and challenging to the prison regime, and whose engagement with the normal regime of the prison is considered problematic. The ESS is commissioned by the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway.

Work Involvement

• The ESS team work in pairs with prisoners for approximately 12 weeks, with the overarching aims being to improve their psychological wellbeing, and reduce the frequency of challenging behaviour.
• This can include helping the individual to understand their current situation, recognise how their behaviour affects themselves and those around them, identify personal goals and learn how to achieve these goals, and learn to work collaboratively with staff and other prisoners.
• If you are interested in this position and would like to find out further information, please contact Dr Emily Chitty.

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 multi‑disciplinary 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 and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

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're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Responsibilities

• To work as a member of the Enhanced Support Service at HMP Wandsworth.
• Be responsible and accountable for the management of own caseload as directed by the Team Leader.
• To undertake assessments of patients referred by primary care staff, officers, probation, substance misuse services and other referral sources on the wings.
• To provide psychosocial interventions for patients with often complex and challenging mental health difficulties in the prison setting.
• Jointly facilitate group work with multi‑disciplinary colleagues (including education staff).
• To complete detailed clinical risk assessments at first and subsequent assessment interview and accurately record and report key risks.
• To develop care plans in collaboration with the patient, carer and other relevant person or agency.
• To review and evaluate treatment plans at agreed intervals in collaboration with the patient and members of the multidisciplinary team.
• To provide care co‑ordination function to the service users on your caseload.
• To provide clinical advice and support to other colleagues within offender health and other agencies concerned with mental health.
• To influence the development of high standards of nursing care, ensuring that appropriate systems are in place in order to support evidence based practice.
• To be conversant with all guidance and operational procedures in relation to offender healthcare at HMP Wandsworth.
• To participate in the ACCT process within the establishment, ensuring agreed healthcare interventions required from the Team are provided.

Person Specification

Experience: Satisfactory post‑qualification experience.
Desirable: Worked in forensic or prisons.
Skills: Effective communication and teamwork.
Knowledge: Theory to practice links.
Desirable: Trauma informed understanding.
UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information see NHS Careers website.

Information for Applicants

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

• All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre‑employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
• Proof of right to work documentation.
• Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID.
• Proof of address documentation.
• Non‑UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
• Address history: 5 years address history will be needed.
• Applicants that are not UK passport holders who provide less than 5 years of UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
• Applicants who are UK passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
• In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
• If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).

Salary & Contract

Band 7 – £56,276 to £63,176 a year inclusive of national and/or regional incentives. Permanent, full‑time position.

Location

HMP Wandsworth – London, SW18 3HU

Disclosure & 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.

Visit Us

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust – http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)