Senior Mental Health Nurse

Are you an NMC registered nurse with experience of working in mental health looking for a new role within Forensic Services?

We are recruiting for a Senior Mental Health Nurse to join out team at HMP Grendon and Springhill near Aylesbury, which is a Category B prison, operating as a therapeutic community for approximately 240 men.

Oxford Health Foundation Trust Forensic Service is developing and delivering a new integrated model of mental health care for men in prisons across the region. We are looking for forward thinking, innovative, creative, compassionate and thoughtful senior mental health nurse who will be able to offer a wide range of interventions to our patient group.

You'll be managing a caseload of patients in a person-centred way to plan, deliver and evaluate care, whilst being supported by a well-resourced multidisciplinary team. You'll have the opportunity to develop your own practice, and support others to develop theirs, in partnership with primary health care providers and prison staff.

If this sounds like your area of expertise and you're ready for a new step in your career, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

• Provide mental health interventions to service users within the prison establishment.
  
  
• Responsible for managing a caseload, including the assessment, planning, delivery of interventions and review of care of patients located within the prison with a mental illness, within the framework of the multi-disciplinary team and Care Programme Approach.
  
  
• Work as an integral member of the multi-disciplinary, multi-agency team to provide advice and support to primary health care based within the prison, and to liaise with and provide advice and support to, statutory and non-statutory agencies.
  
  
• Support the team manager in delivering identified objectives in terms of patient care, staff and service development.
  
  Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties. Please note if you are based outside of the UK you will need to be fully qualified, have already passed your OSCE and have an NMC pin number in order to be considered for this role.
  
  Working for our organisation
  
  Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
  
  As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
  
  Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
  
  We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
  
  Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 plus an RSU allowance of £1,446 per annum | pro rata
  
  • Excellent opportunities for career progression
  
  • Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
  
  • 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
  
  • NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
  
  • Competitive pension scheme
  
  • Lease car scheme
  
  • Cycle to work scheme
  
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  
  • Mental Health First Aiders
  
  • Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
  
  • Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
  
  Detailed job description and main responsibilities
  
  We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
  
  The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
  
  Person specification
  
  Qualifications
  
  Essential criteria
  
  
• Current NMC registration
  
  Desirable criteria
  
  
• Experience in field of criminal justice
  
  Experience
  
  Essential criteria
  
  
• Experience of providing specialist interventions for those with mental health problems
  
  Desirable criteria
  
  
• Experience of developing and delivering group work.
  
  Contractual Requirements
  
  Essential criteria
  
  
• Ability to undertake mandatory training
  
  Desirable criteria
  
  
• Valid Driving Licence
  
  
• All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
  
  
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
  
  
• We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
  
  
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
  
  
• We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
  
  
• We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
  
  
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
  
  
• Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing