Senior Mental Health Nurse

Job summary
Are you an experienced RMN (Registered Mental Health Nurse) looking to advance and diversify your career as a nurse? Why not break into prison healthcare?

Our Integrated Mental Health and Substance Misuse Team at HMP Long Lartin is looking for a dynamic and experienced Registered Mental Health Nurse. Our team is innovative, forward-thinking and committed to a recovery-focused approach.

This is an exciting and diverse role for an individual who is passionate about providing high-quality nursing care. You will have the opportunity to influence and shape the provision of mental health care to some of society's most vulnerable members.

If you:o are an experienced RMN who has a flexible approach, with a drive to clinically innovate;o share our values and are committed to providing high quality care and developing your skills;o have confidence in dealing with a wide range of situations and working with partner agencies to provide the best care to people within the prison;o are enthusiastic about working within an ever-changing prison environment;o enjoy collaborating and working within a full multi-disciplinary team to ensure varied and comprehensive interventions are delivered in-line with the stepped care model;o have an excellent working knowledge of the Mental Health Act and its application to prisoners who require transfer to hospital;

then this job is for you!

Main duties of the job
Working effectively within the team, you will provide evidence-based interventions. You will manage a caseload of patients and undertake assessments and reviews.

Using the Care Programme Approach, you will act as a Care Coordinator, communicating effectively with those involved in the care of our patients in custody and on release.

The role requires you to be a reflective practitioner who is eager to work collaboratively with patients, carers and team members to contribute to the delivery of an effective, dynamic specialist mental health service.

You will work with individuals from initial assessment through to discharge, which may include transferring care to other providers, such as hospitals or Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs), while working with a variety of agencies across the Offender Health Pathway.

You will help to rehabilitate and support service users to live hopeful and fulfilling lives as members of the community.

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 Long Lartin and our incentives offer please see attached information.

A relocation package may be considered for the right applicant.

Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities. Here is a summary:

• 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.

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Mental Health 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
Essential

• 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.
• Experience of providing supervision and line management of staff.

Clearance
Essential

• Must have cat A clearance or be prepared to apply for this.

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name
Inclusion
Address
HMP Long Lartin
South Littleton
Evesham
WR11 8TZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website
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Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Team Manager
Vakila Steer
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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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.