Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

As a Mental Health Nurse 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 at HMP Rochester and HMP Cookham Wood.

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.

Alongside our Mental Health Practitioners you will manage a mixed and challenging caseload and be required to perform robust assessment, screening and interventions to offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions.

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.

***Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post***

Main duties of the job

• 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).

This post is based at HMP Rochester and HMP Cookham Wood, but will require close working relationships with colleagues at nearby Kent prisons; HMP Maidstone, HMP East Sutton Park, and cross-cover may occasionally be required.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Task and Responsibilities:

• To provide quality mental health assessment and screening for offenders as part of the health screening.
• Triage offenders within an identified time frame.
• Provide emergency support.
• Medication Management.
• Good documentation and communication
• Able to support and facilitate mental health groups with other mental health professionals.
• Attend ACCT reviews
• Under the direction of senior staff ensure that all nursing activity provided by the team directly reflects the trust and service’s core objectives of health promotion, supported self care and condition management.
• As directed support and implement practice development, improvement and service modernization initiatives.
• Maintain comprehensive and timely electronic clinical records at all times As directed participate in any aspect of the integrated clinical governance arrangements and plans.
• Support the implementation of any initiatives to improve quality       Inform senior staff of all incidents and report any incidents as per trust and prison policy.
• Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.
• To maintain your personal professional registration in line with NMC requirements.
• Comply and participate in the collection of activity and data required for auditing purposes as required.
• Contribute as required to investigations relating to serious untoward incidents, complaints and allegations as requested by relevant persons.

Please see JD for further requirements.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION PLEASE READY:

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 photographic ID

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).