Forensic Community Psychiatric Nurse

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Dartford is looking for motivated mental health nurses to join a supportive multi-disciplinary team within their Forensic Community Service. The role involves managing a caseload, providing expert advice, and ensuring patient safety through care coordination. Candidates should have a sound knowledge of forensic psychiatry and excellent communication skills. This position offers ongoing professional development opportunities and is suited for individuals passionate about enhancing the lives of those in the community.

Benefits

Opportunity for personal and professional development

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with significant relevant clinical experience.
• Experience in reflective practice and continuous professional development.
• Ability to manage complex and challenging client situations.

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined caseload of complex community clients.
• Develop and implement evidence-based interventions.
• Provide mentorship and supervision to students.

Skills

Effective communication

Resilience

Problem solving

Education

Registered Adult Nurse

MSC

Job description

Oxleas Forensic Directorate provides a range of community and inpatient services amounting to 131 beds, prison in-reach services and specialist forensic aftercare including specialist hostels in the community. The integrated team works across the boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.

Due to recent service changes and expansion , a number of vacancies have arisen within the Forensic community service. This is an exciting opportunity to join an established but developing service. We are looking for motivated mental health nurses, to work within a supportive and experienced multi-disciplinary team. The forensic community service is a transitional service, and as such we work in a collaborative and recovery focused manner to enable safe and supportive transitions for patients leaving secure services.

You will gain experience of case management and risk assessment and be responsible for a defined community caseload.

You will have a sound knowledge of concepts in forensic psychiatry and have the ability to work within a model of the multi-disciplinary team. You will also have excellent communication skills and be willing to offer commitment, motivation and a willingness to learn.

In return we will offer an excellent opportunity for personal and professional development to enhance your knowledge and skills in the management of forensic service users living in the community.

Main duties of the job

• Provide specialist knowledge on forensic mental health across all 3 boroughs through active follow up of a defined caseload as well as providing expert advice and consultation to community hostels in the community.
• Assess, develop and implement care packages service users leaving conditions of low or medium security within the framework of the CPA in conjunction with other members of the MDT.
• Works within codes of practice and professional guidelines and is accountable for own professional practice.
• Ensure observance and the working of all relevant legal and statutory requirements.
• Required to act within broad occupational policies without guidance or direct supervision.
• To maintain client confidentiality at all times.
• To participate fully in continuous professional development and supervision.
• To regularly provide mentorship and supervision to students on placement
• Risk management strategies including the administration medication management, organisation and delivery of prescribed medication.
• Random urine screening for illicit substance misuse as directed by Home Office directions.

  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing organisation which is highly rated for staff satisfaction. The Trust commits itself to promoting Equality & Diversity, ensuring that all users and providers of its services are not discriminated against and are treated according to their needs.

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 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 Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

• To manage a defined caseload of complex and challenging clients who present as high risk and will have demonstrated this through the nature and gravity of their offending.
• You will be expected to manage the conflict between the therapeutic alliance whilst keeping within the statutory and legal framework.
• You will be accountable for the assessment of care needs, risk assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of treatment packages and ensure that reviews take place within the Trust CPA policy.
• Provide care coordination and joint working for a designated caseload of community clients who have committed serious offences and may be subject to formal statutory supervision e.g. conditionally discharged by the Home Office and subject to Community treatment orders.
• Develop and implement evidence-based interventions.
• Act in the capacity as social supervisor for conditionally discharged patients
• Ensure clinical effectiveness in working with patients, families, and carers, including people who disengage from services, by facilitating engagement and therapeutic co-operation using flexible and responsive engagement strategies.
• Preparation of social circumstances reports for Mental Health Review Tribunal reports as requested.
• Encounter distressing accounts of offending behaviour whilst undertaking assessments as well as in the course of your day-to-day duties e.g. extreme violence or of serious sexual assault
• Provide a range of social care interventions including the preparation of reports for funding panels, mainstream housing, benefits etc
• Assessing the suitability of residential placements.
• Coordinate MHA assessments in the community.
• Provide monitoring of out of area placements ensuring attendance at CPAs for service users that have been admitted To provide specialist input and advice to forensic mental hostels within the Bracton centre's catchment area.
• Works within codes of practice and professional guidelines and is accountable for own professional practice. Required to act within broad occupational policies without guidance.
• To participate in reflective practice within the supervision framework.
• Administers prescribed medication safely as appropriate and in accordance with Oxleas policy and NMC guidelines.
• Occasional/frequent exposure to distressing, volatile and unpredictable situations e.g. verbal and challenging behaviour

The full-time position will focus on the effective facilitation of the depot and Clozapine clinics incorporating our Physical Health Pathway to provide a seamless service to patients:1. To deliver physical health assessments and interventions to patients under the service inclusive of phlebotomy.2. To assist in the management of a clozapine clinic.3. To administer long-acting injections and facilitate clozapine monitoring.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Adult Nurse and/or Registered Mental Health Nurse and/or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse
• MSC

Experience

• Experience of research-based/reflective practice, e.g. understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge and develop these by using evidence based practice.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Significant relevant clinical experience.
• Experience of taking responsibility for a ward/clinical unit.

Skills

• Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations.
• Forms very effective working relationships with colleagues.
• Advocates for all individuals, particularly those with protected characteristics; promotes equality and diversity.
• Problem solving, ability to identify problems, review options and take appropriate action without a predetermined framework.

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.