Mental Health Practitioner

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Sunderland; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare trust as a Registered Mental Health Practitioner to deliver vital mental health care to offenders. You will work within a multidisciplinary team to provide high-quality interventions and support, improving health outcomes while managing diverse caseloads in a challenging yet rewarding environment.

Qualifications

• Must be a Registered AHP, Registered Mental Health Nurse, or Registered Social Worker.
• Experience in mental healthcare and working with offenders is preferred.
• Skills in managing diverse and challenging caseloads are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team.
• Perform robust assessments, screenings, and interventions for offenders' mental health conditions.
• Collaborate with community mental health teams for continuity of care.

Skills

Compassion

Teamwork

Communication

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Registered AHP

Registered Social Worker

Job description

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative, and fast-paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, regardless of their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.

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 also deeply centered on the patient.

We welcome applications from Registered AHPs, Registered Mental Health Nurses, and Registered Social Workers.

Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well-being for those in prison. We pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instill hope for patients' future resettlement into the community. We deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy, and Clinical Substance Misuse services within an integrated healthcare model to provide effective and responsive care aimed at improving wellbeing and supporting better outcomes.

This position isn’t just a job; it’s a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills, and commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in a rewarding yet challenging environment.

Important Sponsorship Information: Due to service budget restrictions, we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

As a Mental Health Practitioner, you will provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider mental health services. You will work in a psychologically minded way to help offenders achieve their goals and improve health outcomes.

Our Mental Health Team offers interventions at primary and secondary care levels, including referral management, screening assessments, triage, evidence-based interventions, care planning, risk assessments, and facilitation of one-to-one and group work.

You will manage a diverse and challenging caseload, performing robust assessments, screening, and interventions for offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. You will contribute to reducing inpatient admissions and aid early discharges through high-intensity interventions and complex case management.

One of our key aims is to ensure continuity of care for offenders in the community and reduce lengths of stay in prison inpatient services and external NHS or independent inpatient services. You will collaborate closely with community mental health teams to ensure appropriate information sharing, continuity of care, and adherence to the Care Programme Approach.

Oxleas provides a wide range of NHS healthcare services in community and secure settings, including community health, mental health care, and services for people with learning disabilities. Our multidisciplinary teams serve people of all ages across many settings, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centers, schools, and homes.

We operate over 125 sites mainly in the South of England, including London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and Kent. Our facilities include Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, and the Bracton Centre, a medium secure unit. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services in several regions.

Our Purpose: To improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families, guided by our values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

For further details or informal visits, please contact:

Name: Alana Course
Job Title: Mental Health Clinical Lead
Email: [e-mail]