About the role
Salary: £32073.00 to £39043.00
Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?
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.
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
: