In-Reach Mental Health Practitioner

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider in London is looking for a mental health specialist to provide care to offenders. The role involves managing assessments and delivering evidence-based interventions. Candidates should possess strong collaborative skills and experience with offender mental health care. The position emphasizes the importance of continuity of care and working closely with various healthcare teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing a mixed and challenging caseload.
• Ability to work with offenders with learning disabilities.
• Strong collaborative skills with CMHTs.

Responsibilities

• Manage referral and screening processes.
• Facilitate one-to-one and group interventions.
• Work closely with Community Mental Health Teams.

Skills

Evidence-based interventions

Assessment and triage

Group-work facilitation

Assertive outreach

Continuity of care

Job description

Overview

To provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders and to work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider mental health services in HMP Wandsworth. To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level.

Responsibilities

• Referral management, screening, assessment, triage, and evidence-based interventions
• One-to-one and group-work facilitation
• Assertive outreach interventions
• Managing a mixed and challenging caseload
• Contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assist with early discharge through high-intensity specialist interventions and complex case management arrangements, resulting in continuity of care for an offender on ordinary location and reduced length of stay (in relation to prison inpatient services and external NHS or independent in-patient services)
• Perform robust assessment, screening, and interventions for offenders with a learning disability
• Ensure that all waiting times, assessments and interventions are delivered in a timely manner and positively contribute to the achievement of service performance targets
• Ensure integrated and collaborative working with other specialist services, including continuity of care and through-the-gate arrangements and liaison
• 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 comprehensive and timely reports and mental health expertise to multi-agency public protection panels (MAPPA), police, probation services, solicitors and court liaison teams as directed
• Provide supervision to junior staff and receive supervision as directed (line management and clinical)
• Work in a psychologically minded way with offenders to achieve agreed goals and quality health outcomes
• Maintain close working relationships with all prison and Serco staff, including participation in sentence planning, resettlement, safer custody and ACCT processes

About Oxleas and Our Values

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\'re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care