Mental Health Practitioner

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Sunderland is looking for a Registered Mental Health Practitioner to join their Mental Health In-Reach Team. The role involves delivering specialized mental health care to offenders, managing various assessments and interventions, and collaborating with community services to ensure continuity of care. Candidates should hold relevant registrations and demonstrate skills in mental health assessment and intervention planning. This position is key in enhancing patient well-being within a challenging but rewarding environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in offender healthcare or mental health services.
• Ability to work in a psychologically minded way with offenders.
• Skills in managing challenging caseloads and complex case management.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders.
• Perform assessments, screenings, and interventions.
• Collaborate with community mental health teams for continuity of care.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Intervention planning

Collaborative care

Triage

Education

Registered AHP or Registered Mental Health Nurse

Relevant degree in mental health or social work

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 diverse and talented healthcare team, delivering care that is efficient and 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 among 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 through an integrated healthcare model to provide effective and responsive care, improving well-being and supporting better outcomes.

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 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 quality health outcomes.

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

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

One of our key aims is to ensure continuity of care for offenders in community settings and to reduce the length of stays in prison inpatient and external NHS/independent inpatient services. You will collaborate closely with community mental health teams to share information and ensure continuity of care through the Care Programme Approach as needed.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services in community and secure environments, including district nursing, speech and language therapy, care for learning disabilities, and mental health services such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams serve people of all ages across various settings, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centers, schools, and homes.

We operate over 125 sites across 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 the UK, serving prisons across Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are committed to providing excellent care and supporting our staff.

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