Senior Mental Health Nurse (NHS AfC: Band 6) - Mental Health - Midlands Partnership University [...]

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - Inclusion Services; Uttoxeter; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization is seeking an experienced Senior Mental Health Nurse to join their team at HMP Dovegate in Uttoxeter. The role involves providing high-quality mental health care, managing assessments, and working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to support individuals in custody. Candidates should be committed to delivering effective and inclusive care, with opportunities for training and development.

Benefits

Training and development opportunities

Comprehensive wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with recent CPD and NMC compliance.
• Considerable experience in mental health.
• Experience in providing specialist interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based interventions and manage a caseload.
• Conduct assessments and develop personalized care plans.
• Facilitate therapeutic group work.

Skills

Mental Health Nursing

Counselling Techniques

CBT

Motivational Interviewing

Teamwork

Education

Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council

Teaching Certificate or related mentoring/coaching qualification

Job description

Employer Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - Inclusion Services Employer type NHS Site HMP Dovegate Town Uttoxeter Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/06/2025 23:59

Senior Mental Health Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

Are you an experienced Mental Health Nurse who enjoys working in a fast paced environment?

We are looking for dedicated RMNs to work within our integrated Mental Health & Substance Use Service at HMP Dovegate in Uttoxeter. These are new roles designed to support triage and assessment with men who are newly received into custody. You will work closely with members of the wider multidisciplinary Healthcare team to ensure that mental health needs are identified early and the appropriate level of care is provided in a timely way.

HMP Dovegate is a Category B adult male facility for men aged 21 and upwards on remand or serving sentences.

If you are an experienced RMN with a commitment to high quality care then we want to hear from you.

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.

Working for our organisation

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!

Detailed job description and main 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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Sally Bradley Job title Team Manager Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01283 829431 Additional information If you would like to know more and find out whether joining our dedicated team is for you then please get in touch with Nicola Black as we would love to hear from you. **** We do not accept CVs. Applications will only be considered if made via the website.****

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