Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Practitioner
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HMP East Sutton Park
HMP East Sutton Park is a women’s open prison in Maidstone, Kent. Housed in a Grade II listed Jacobean manor house, it accommodates around 100 women. The facility focuses on rehabilitation, with a high percentage of inmates participating in Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL) schemes to work in the community.
As a Mental Health Practitioner
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.
Our Mental Health Team
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 Practitioners 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.
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Sponsorship Information
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Key Aims
One of our key aims is to ensure continuity of care for an offender on ordinary location and reduce the length of stay, both in relation to prison inpatient services and external NHS/independent in-patient services. You will work 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.
To Provide Specialist Mental Healthcare
To provide specialist mental healthcare to service users and to work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider MDT. To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level; to include:
- Referral management
- Screening assessment
- Triage
- Evidence-based interventions
- Care Planning and risk assessing
- One-to-one and group-work facilitation
- Managing a mixed and challenging caseload
About Oxleas
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Kent, South London, Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.
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Our Healthcare Departments
Our Healthcare Departments Operate Across Six Prisons In The Kent Cluster Each Of Which Require a Bespoke Service Responding To The Prisoner And Prison Needs
- HMP Swaleside – Cat B – Population = 1,112
- HMP Elmley– Cat B/C – Population = 1,252
- HMP Standford Hill – Cat D– Population = 450
- HMP Maidstone - Cat C - Population = 600
- HMP Rochester - Cat C - Population = 695
- HMP East Sutton Park - Cat D Population = 90
Our Wider Services
Our wider 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 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.
Our Purpose
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
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
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