Mental Health Care Coordinator

North London Mental Health Partnership; London; On-site; GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health organization is seeking a Mental Health Care Coordinator to deliver quality care within prison settings. The role requires a qualified RMN with experience in mental health and a commitment to recovery-oriented practices. You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to ensure robust mental health support for patients and facilitate their transition back into community services post-release.

Qualifications

• Experienced RMN required with knowledge of forensic mental health service provision.
• Ability to provide psychosocial interventions for patients with complex mental health difficulties.
• Experience with care plans and clinical risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Support care delivery in a prison setting.
• Conduct assessments and provide psychosocial interventions.
• Manage own caseload effectively as directed by the Mental Health Hub Manager.

Skills

Forensic mental health knowledge

Crisis intervention skills

Risk assessment

Care coordination

Education

Registered Mental Nurse (RMN)

Job description

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North London, has a vacancy for a Mental Health Nurse (Care Co-ordinator). The core of this role is to support the delivery of care, which is currently in the form of New Models of Care.

Our North London NHS Foundation Trust London Prison (HMP Pentonville) situated in The ideal candidate will need to ensure they are operating in line with the New Models of care by providing a high standard to individuals within our prison settings who are presenting with mental health problems.

The post holder will work with staff across healthcare and the wider prison establishment, providing specialist advice particularly to GPs in the assessment and treatment of patients on the prison residential wings.

The successful candidate will need to adapt to and embrace a recovery and enablement model to seamlessly realign prisoners with mental health problems alongside their local community- based mental health service upon release from prison.

The Mental Health Nurse (Care co-ordinator) will be a qualified RMN with experience in Mental Health, knowledge and experience of forensic mental health service provision and offender care.

As well as the outstanding development opportunities within the Health in Justice Team, This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Mental Health Nurse to join our Trust as our prison services are transforming in partnership with other healthcare providers.

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Main duties of the job

To work as a member of the Mental Health Service at HMP Pentonville

To work across the service functions including early days in custody, planned care, crisis care and release and transfer.

To be responsible for implementing sound clinical skills in mental health practice, including CPA care co-ordination, group work, risk assessment and management and crisis intervention.

Be responsible and accountable for the management of own caseload as directed by the Mental Health Hub Manager.

To provide skilled assessments of patients’ emotional and psychological needs based upon the understanding, interpretation and integration of complex data given by the patient and obtained from other sources.

To provide psychosocial interventions for patients with moderate to complex mental health difficulties.

Jointly facilitate group work with multi-disciplinary colleagues (including education staff)

To complete 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.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
  
  

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: John Martins Job title: Mental Health Hub Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 020 7023 7353

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Temporary

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Mental Health Care

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