Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner

Mental Health Practitioner

Location: Isle of Sheppey – HMP Elmley

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £39,338-£46,962 per annum, dependent on experience

We are proud to be working with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust who have recently been voted by the Sunday Times as one of the Best Places to Work 2023.

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast-paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 6 Senior Practitioners to join the Mental Health team at HMP Elmley.

What will you be doing?

The post holder will be an expert practitioner, and a source of expert advice to the Primary Care team, Substance Misuse team, Prison staff, and Offenders. With overall responsibility for the mental and physical health and well-being of offenders in their care; operational management and day-to-day leadership of the In-reach team at HMP Elmley.

1. To provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders and to work as part of the Mental Health Team and wider mental health services.
2. To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level; to include:
3. Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidence-based interventions.
4. Care Planning and risk assessing.
5. One-to-one and group-work facilitation.
6. Managing a mixed and challenging caseload including people struggling with severe enduring mental illness, personality difficulties, and neurodevelopmental problems.

Oxleas is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified RMN with experience in any of the following areas:

• Learning Disability
• Personality Disorder
• Substance Misuse/Dual Diagnosis

What do you need?

• NMC Registration
• Degree supplemented by diploma, specialist training
• Minimum of 2 years’ post qualification as an RMN
• Extensive clinical experience
• Supervisory experience of junior staff and students

What next?

If this is a role you’re interested in, and you want to join the team and help make a difference, please click on the apply button. You will be redirected to a page where you can enter your details, answer a few questions about your experience, and attach your CV. Someone will then be in touch with you to provide you with next steps.

Interested? Click apply now!