Senior Mental Health Nurse

NHS; Uttoxeter; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organisation in England is seeking an experienced Senior RMN to join their integrated Mental Health & Substance Use Service at HMP Dovegate. The successful candidate will manage a caseload and provide evidence-based interventions in a dynamic team setting. This role requires substantial experience in mental health and a compassionate approach to care, ensuring service users receive effective support during their stay.

Benefits

Comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support

In-house training and coaching support

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council Register.
• Evidence of recent CPD compliance with NMC revalidation.
• Considerable experience in the mental health field.

Responsibilities

• Take a Recovery focused and holistic approach in working with people accessing services.
• Deliver care and interventions utilizing the stepped care model.
• Assess needs and develop personalized care plans.

Skills

Experience in mental health services

Ability to provide evidence-based interventions

Experience with counselling techniques

Teamwork and collaboration

Education

Registered Nurse with NMC Registration

Teaching Certificate or related qualification

Job description

Are you an experienced RMN with a passion for working in a fast paced environment?

We are looking for a senior RMN with experience of working in mental health services to join our integrated Mental Health & Substance Use Service at HMP Dovegate, a Category B facility for remand an sentenced adult males.

You would be joining a professional and compassionate multi disciplinary team committed to Recovery focussed and trauma informed approaches to care. The Service is responsible for assessment, planning and the delivery of a range of evidence based therapeutic interventions to support mental health and substance use needs for the men under our care.

This role is specifically designed to support early screening assessment and support for men in the early days in custody

Main duties of the job

Working effectively within the team you will provide evidence based interventions. You will manage a caseload and will be required to undertake assessments and reviews. Using the Care Programme Approach, you will be a care coordinator, communicating effectively with those involved in the care of people in custody up to release. The role will require you to be a reflective practitioner, eager to work collaboratively with individuals, carers and other professionals to contribute to the delivery of an effective, dynamic, integrated mental health and substance misuse service. You will work with individuals from initial assessment through to discharge, which can include transferring care to other providers such as hospitals or CMHTs whilst working with a variety of agencies in the Offender Health Pathway. You will help to rehabilitate and support service users to live hopeful and fulfilling lives as members of the community. Inclusion (part of Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust) has prison substance misuse and mental health teams across the country and you will benefit from training and development opportunities as well as the support of an NHS employer experienced in providing prison healthcare for many years.

About us

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex. We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide.We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities. A summary is as follows:

• Take a Recovery focused and holistic approach in working with the people who access our services.
• Deliver care and interventions utilising the stepped care model, including provision of the CPA Framework where appropriate.
• Assess people's needs to develop, implement and evaluate personalised care plans.
• Facilitate therapeutic group work taking the lead where appropriate.
• Deliver evidenced based interventions.
• Identify people requiring hospital treatment and facilitate the timely transfer under The Mental Health Act.
• Line management of Band 5 nurse where appropriate.
• Some weekend working is required as part of this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council Register.
• Evidence of recent CPD and compliance with NMC revalidation.
• Teaching Certificate including annual update (ENB 603) or related mentoring / coaching qualification

Experience

• Considerable experience of working in the mental health field.
• Experience of providing specialist interventions for those with mental health problems, counselling techniques, CBT, motivational interviewing.
• Providing supervision and line management of staff.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.