Mental Health Practitioner

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Devizes; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Devizes is seeking a Registered Mental Health Practitioner to deliver high-quality mental healthcare to offenders. This role involves managing complex cases, collaborating with community teams, and providing psychological support to achieve positive health outcomes. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and a passion for improving lives in a challenging but rewarding environment. This role not only offers professional satisfaction but also makes a significant impact on individuals' futures.

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Practitioner qualification is required.
• Experience in providing mental healthcare in challenging environments.
• Ability to manage complex cases effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders.
• Manage a mixed and challenging caseload.
• Collaborate with community mental health teams.

Skills

Psychologically minded approach

Assessment and intervention

Care planning

Collaboration with community teams

Job description

Overview

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Mental Health Practitioner to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient. Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well‑being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient’s future resettlement back into the community. This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.

Role Responsibilities

• Provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders as part of the Mental Health In‑Reach Team.
• Work psychologically minded with offenders to achieve agreed goals and quality health outcomes.
• Deliver referral management, screening assessment, triage, evidence‑based interventions, care planning and risk assessment.
• Manage a mixed and challenging caseload, performing robust assessment, screening and interventions for offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions.
• Contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assist early discharge through high intensity interventions and complex case management arrangements.
• Collaborate closely with community mental health teams to share information, ensure continuity of care and implement the Care Programme Approach for all offenders as necessary.

Professional Context

Oxleas provides a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings across South England. I support our largest NHS provider of prison health services delivering healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. Our 4,300 staff work in hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes across 125 sites, aiming to improve lives by providing the best possible care.

Values

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