Registered Mental Health Nurse

Job summary

The successful candidate will be supported through a formal preceptorship process to progress from a Band 5 to a Band 6 over a period of 12 - 18 months dependent upon prior experience, and contingent on achievement of the required competencies.

Provision of mental health interventions to women within the prison establishment across wellbeing, primary and secondary mental health.

This will involve being responsible for managing their own caseload, including assessments, care planning, delivering interventions and reviewing care of patients located within the prison with a mental illness, within the framework of the multi-disciplinary team and Care Programme Approach.

Post holders are expected to work as an integral member of the multi-disciplinary, multi-agency team to provide advice and support to primary health care based within the prison and to liaise with and provide advice and support to statutory and non-statutory agencies both within the prison estate and community.

To provide specialist mental health interventions to service users in the prison.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for the management of own caseload, this will include the assessment, monitoring and provision of specialist nursing interventions to individual prisoners with secondary mental health needs. In addition, the post holder is responsible for arranging aftercare as required and ensuring care is co-ordinated with other services if necessary.

To provide a range of interventions across the integrated offender health model this includes primary care and wellbeing interventions where appropriate.

To support and liaise with substance misuse team, primary care team and to deliver wellbeing interventions.

Act upon referrals from Prison based Primary Care staff, and external teams.

The post holder will provide assessment, implementation and development of care programmes for individuals on their caseload.

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! For more information about HMP Oakwood and our incentives offer please see attached information.

Details

• Date posted: 13 July 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 5
• Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year Per annum
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 301-RJ-26-8133238
• Job locations: HMP/YOI Drake Hall, Eccleshall, ST21 6LQ, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for the full list of duties and responsibilities.