Mental Health Practitioner Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Dellbrugge; Exeter; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Mental Health Practitioner to join their team, focusing on delivering patient-centered care within a challenging environment. The role involves providing specialist mental healthcare to offenders, managing a varied caseload, and working collaboratively to improve health outcomes. Candidates should be registered practitioners with a commitment to high standards of care and the ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health, neurodevelopmental, and trauma needs.
• Ability to manage a varied caseload and develop care plans.

Responsibilities

• Perform assessments and interventions for service users.
• Work collaboratively with other services for continuity of care.
• Provide clinical leadership and participate in training.

Skills

Mental Health

Assessment

Care Planning

Communication

Education

Registered Mental Health Practitioner

Registered AHP

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Registered Social Worker

Job description

Mental Health Practitioner Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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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, regardless of their past?

This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Mental Health Practitioner to join our diverse, talented healthcare team dedicated to delivering patient-centered care.

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

Our healthcare team significantly impacts promoting health and well-being among those in prison, using skills and strategies that instill hope for patients' future resettlement into the community. We provide Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy, and Clinical Substance Misuse services through an integrated healthcare delivery model aimed at improving well-being and outcomes.

This position offers more than a job; it’s a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills, and commitment to high standards of care in a rewarding yet challenging environment.

Important Sponsorship Information: Due to service budget restrictions, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship certificates 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 broader mental health services. You will work in a psychologically minded way to help offenders achieve their goals and health outcomes.

Our team offers interventions at primary and secondary care levels, including referral management, screening assessments, triage, evidence-based interventions, care planning, risk assessment, and facilitating one-to-one and group activities.

You will manage a varied and challenging caseload, performing assessments and interventions for offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions, contributing to alternatives to inpatient care, and supporting early discharge through high-intensity interventions and complex case management.

We aim to ensure continuity of care for offenders on ordinary location, reduce inpatient stay lengths, and work closely with community mental health teams for information sharing and care planning.

Oxleas provides NHS healthcare services across community and secure settings, including community health, learning disability care, and mental health services such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams serve all ages across many settings, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, and community centers.

We operate over 125 sites across the South of England, including London Boroughs and hospital sites like Queen Mary’s Hospital and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services in several regions.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best care, guided by our values: being kind, fair, listening, and caring.

Key responsibilities include:

1. Performing assessments, screenings, and interventions for service users with mental health, neurodevelopmental, and trauma needs.
2. Ensuring timely delivery of assessments and interventions, contributing to service performance targets.
3. Working collaboratively with other services, ensuring continuity of care and effective communication.
4. Providing reports and mental health expertise to multi-agency panels and legal entities.
5. Offering clinical leadership, supervision, and participating in resource center services.
6. Working with prison staff on sentence planning, resettlement, and safety processes.
7. Developing specialist roles and providing peer support and training.
8. Contributing to staff training and support activities.
9. Managing a caseload, developing care plans, and ensuring evidence-based interventions.
10. Engaging in ongoing training in CBT and health promotion activities.

Important Information: All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting for prison work. You will need to provide proof of right to work, identification, address history, and potentially police certificates depending on your residency history.

This advert closes on Tuesday 27 May 2025.

We are a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme, committed to fair recruitment practices for disabled applicants.