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Senior Mental Health Nurse

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3 weeks ago
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Are you a registered Mental Health Nurse looking for a rewarding and challenging opportunity within forensic services?

As our Senior Mental Health Nurse, you will have the unique opportunity to work in prisons, specifically at HMP Huntercombe near Henley. This is a male foreign national Category C prison, providing a diverse and unique patient group for you to work with. You will be part of a supportive multi-disciplinary team, completing triages, delivering assessments, 1:1 and group interventions, and manage caseloads in a person-centred way.

If you're a forward-thinking, innovative, and compassionate mental health nurse, this is the perfect opportunity to take your career to the next level.

This role includes an RSU allowance of £1,446 per annum on top of your salary.

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

Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010 where required.

Main duties of the job

  • To provide high quality, safe and effective mental health care and interventions to the service users within the prison establishment, including management of self harm and complex needs.

  • You will be responsible for managing a caseload, triaging, assessing, and delivery of evidence based interventions within the framework of the multi-disciplinary team and care programme approach, and input into discharge planning.

  • To work as an integral member of the integrated mental health team, and to provide advice and support to primary health care based within the prison, and other prison staff.

  • You will work with internal and external partners, including partner healthcare providers, prison colleagues, social care providers, and probation services.

  • To support the team manager and matron with the expansion of the team.

    Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties

    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”

    At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

  • Salry: £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 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

  • NMC registration

    Essential criteria

    *Professional registration

    Desirable criteria

    *Experience of working in the field of criminal justice

    *Knowledge of forensic care

    Experience

    Essential criteria

  • Experience of providing specialist interventions for those with mental health challenges

  • Experience of managing self harm and associated risks

    Desirable criteria

  • Experience of developing and delivering group work

    Contractual Requirements

    Essential criteria

  • Ability to undertake continuing professional development

    Desirable criteria

  • Ability to travel between sites if required

  • 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
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