Psychosocial Team Leader - HMP Feltham B

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent health organization in London is seeking a Psychosocial Team Lead to deliver high-quality mental health services in HMP Feltham B. The role involves managing a team, providing psychosocial support, and ensuring the well-being of clients facing health inequalities. Candidates must have relevant clinical qualifications and experience in case management and counseling. Opportunities for training and career progression are provided.

Benefits

Generous relocation package

Flexible working options

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a psychosocial support role.
• Ability to manage a caseload of clients.
• Knowledge of substance misuse interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychosocial support and care planning.
• Counsel individuals about substance use and harmful behaviors.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary team meetings.

Skills

Motivational interviewing

Case management

Assessment and evaluation

Substance misuse counseling

Education

Relevant clinical qualification

Tools

Outcome monitoring tools

Job description

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner and works in partnership to provide responsive and dependable primary care, mental health, intellectual disability and substance misuse services to the diverse and culturally rich communities we serve.
In our quest to deliver patient-focused quality care we are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Psychosocial Team Lead to join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP Feltham B
By joining our Prisons Health Care Team, you will not only look after the healthcare needs of our patients residing in secure environments, but who also can have a real impact on promoting health and well-being.
Our motto is "Caring NOT Judging" so by working in partnership with the criminal justice system and other agencies, we provide responsive, dependable and high-quality primary care and mental health services to those who may have offended and those at risk of offending in the communities we serve, to improve their health status and to encourage social inclusion.
We offer a great range of career pathways to support our nurses through their journey, see the list of endless opportunities under the working for your organisation tab.[DEL: :DEL], + To use their specialist knowledge and skills to undertake assessment, provide psychosocial support and care-planning of individuals under the care of the HWBT, whilst implementing and evaluating treatment of clients.
+ To hold a caseload of clients and working closely with the Substance Misuse lead Nurse and Prescribers
+ To line manage a team of psychosocial workers, providing, support, development, and clinical supervision, Along with the fully established benefits such as Monthly supervision; Annual personal development plans/appraisals; Support and guidance with Revalidation; Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies. We are also able to offer access to a full range of internal and external training opportunities across our services.
Our Health and Justice healthcare services present unique and diverse learning, development, and leadership opportunities for nurses, where you will have the potential to make a significant difference to the lives of adults, children and young people who often experience a wide range of health inequalities.
We have a clinical leadership career pathway in place to ensure you feel supported and valued via our career pathway programme that facilitates lifelong learning and development enabling you to progress within you career within Health & Justice.
We will support you to ensure you develop your clinical and leadership skills this includes, For further information about the advertised role, please refer to the job description & person specification included in the documents section of this advert.
Clinical Responsibilities:
+ To work as a member of the Wellbeing team, which provides a range of specialist services to substance users and those with psychological and mental health needs, including harm minimisation approaches, motivational interviewing, relapse prevention, care planning, health education and detoxification support, mindfulness and groupwork.
+ To make continuous assessments of the psychological, emotional, social, and rehabilitative needs of young people and young adults, considering the needs of family, local community and sentence plan, with regular evaluation of care plans.
+ To provide case management to a defined caseload of clients and collaborative working with the Substance Misuse Clinical Team Leader and the Prescribers
+ To use agreed and established outcome monitoring tools and any other relevant quality measures.
+ To manage the transfer of individuals between prisons and into the community.
+ To counsel individuals about their substance use and/or harmful behaviours, using motivational interviewing and other evidence-based interventions.
+ To ensure full risk assessment and risk management is delivered effectively.
+ To understand and implement clinical governance.
+ To ensure the highest quality of service is delivered by following local and national quality and performance standards, guidance, procedures, and practice guidelines.
+ To ensure that all work is performed in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, including Incident Reporting.
+ To support the wider service with additional interventions as appropriate and with relevant training, e.g. initial clinical assessment, second signatory for controlled drugs, urine testing, dry blood-spot testing, NDTMS reporting, Drug strategy reporting and data for equality/diversity of service users on site requesting support from the service, Perform CHAT assessments etc.
+ To support the integration of the psychosocial team into the wider Health and Wellbeing team, ensuring attendance at HWBT meetings, multidisciplinary formulation meetings, and HC governance and prison meetings as delegated by HWBT manager.
+ Work closely with the consultant psychologist to promote the delivery of secure stairs in Feltham A and to deliver the principles of Secure Stairs as required.
+ Coordinating and attending all reviews: 5 days review, 28 days review and 13 weeks review.
+ Ensuring monthly data collection for HJIPs, OST and Naloxone
+ Monitor Notification Alert of new arrivals on OST and completing the PNAP process on release to community (PNAP- Probation Notification Actioning Project)
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
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