Mental Health Nurse

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 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 ).