Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Counsellor
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We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Counsellor to join our mental health team working at HMP Elmley to cover maternity leave on a fixed term contract for 12 months.
This position will be responsible for the autonomous provision of counselling interventions within a psychological therapy service for service users in prison experiencing a range of mental health problems, working to NICE guidelines for Depression, OCD, PTSD, Anxiety and other mental health problems, using a stepped-care model.
You will communicate outcomes and suggestions for alternative care back to GP’s, mental health and criminal justice professionals. This work to be undertaken in line with the policies and procedures and service standards of Oxleas NHS Trust.
You will be expected to contribute to the development of the service by giving feedback to managers and clinical leads about your own areas of work.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post. Please visit the link below for more information
Working in offender healthcare
As a counsellor in the prison environment you will be providing specialist care 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.
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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.
Our Mental Health team manage a mixed and challenging caseload and are required to perform robust assessment, screening and interventions to offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. You will contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assisting with early discharge through the implementation of high intensity interventions and complex case management arrangements.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
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We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Clare Denny
- Job title: Recruitment and Retention Resourcing Officer
- Email address: claredenny@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07504877653
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