Mental Health Nurse | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; South Carolina; On-site; USD 43,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Registered Mental Health Nurse to provide specialist mental health care to offenders within a prison setting. You will work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team, delivering evidence-based interventions and contributing to CPA-driven care plans.

The role requires robust assessment, care coordination and collaboration with community and NHS providers to promote continuity of care and better outcomes for patients in custody.

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse with NMC registration.
• Experience delivering mental health care in custodial settings.
• Ability to work within CPA care planning and risk assessment processes.
• Experience coordinating care with multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team.
• Carry out assessment, screening and interventions for offenders with complex needs.
• Contribute to care planning, risk assessment and CPA processes.
• Facilitate individual and group interventions as required.
• Support transitions of care and continuity with community services.

Skills

Mental health nursing

Offender care

Care planning

Risk assessment

Communication skills

Education

NMC registered RMN

Job description

Mental Health Nurse | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want towork with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?

This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Mental Health Nurse to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.

Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient’s future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

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 an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: 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 be providing specialist mental healthcare to offenders and working as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team, plus wider mental health services. You will be required to work in a psychologically minded way with offenders in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.

Our Mental Health Team provide specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level including; referral management, screening assessment, triage, evidence-based interventions, care planning and risk assessing, plus one-to-one and group-work facilitation.

Our Mental Health Practitioners manage a mixed and challenging caseload and are required to perform robust assessment, screening and interventions to offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. You will contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assisting with early discharge through the implementation of high intensity interventions and complex case management arrangements.

One of our key aims is to ensure continuity of care for an offender on ordinary location and reduce the length of stay, both in relation to prison inpatient services and external NHS/independent in-patient services. You will work closely with community mental health teams to ensure appropriate sharing of information, continuity of care and the Care Programme Approach for all offenders as necessary.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• To provide mental health nursing care to offenders. This will require liaison with prison colleagues, probation services, education staff, security personnel, and external NHS providers both in primary and secondary care and visiting specialists when required.
• To support senior staff in the development of high-quality mental health care through the effective assessment, development, and implementation programmes.
• To assess care needs and provide high quality nursing care as a member of a multi-disciplinary team for offenders who have mental health care needs utilising the CPA processes and risk assessment & care planning.
• To maintain accurate, legible records of care provided based upon the CPA care plan process, incorporating relevant communication and liaison with other care providers and the wider prison establishment.
• To promote the overall health and wellbeing of the offender population using evidence-based practice.
• To work under the direction of senior staff to deliver and constantly strive to improve the offender healthcare services
• To provide mental health care based on the principles of timely, comprehensive assessment and evidence based practice.
• To reduce or mitigate the effects of unhealthy or high risk behaviours (ACCT).
• To promote effective links with health and related services in the community to ensure continuity of care as appropriate (Care program Approach, CPA)
• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary in-patient team, comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

You will need to provide:

Proof of right to work documentation

Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographicID

Proof of address documentation

Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.

Address History:

5 years address history will be needed.

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).

This advert closes on Tuesday 27 Oct 2026