Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Nurse
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Mental Health Nurse
Role Overview
As a Mental Health Nurse, 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 at HMP Rochester and HMP Cookham Wood.
Responsibilities
- Providing specialist mental healthcare to offenders.
- Working in a psychologically minded way with offenders in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.
- Managing a mixed and challenging caseload alongside our Mental Health Practitioners.
- Performing robust assessment, screening, and interventions to offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions.
- Working closely with community mental health teams to ensure appropriate sharing of information, continuity of care, and the Care Programme Approach for all offenders as necessary.
Specialist Interventions
Our Mental Health Team provides specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level including:
- Referral management
- Screening assessment
- Triage
- Evidence-based interventions
- Care planning and risk assessing
- One-to-one and group-work facilitation
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Working Environment
This post is based at HMP Rochester and HMP Cookham Wood, but will require close working relationships with colleagues at nearby Kent prisons:
- HMP Maidstone
- HMP East Sutton Park
Cross-cover may occasionally be required.
About Oxleas
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
- 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 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.
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.
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Our Purpose
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
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Clare Denny
- Job title: Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer
- Email address: claredenny@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07504877653
Important Sponsorship Information
We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
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