Mental Health Team Manager

An expert practitioner, the post holder is a source of expert advice to the Integrated Mental Health Team, prison staff & offenders. They hold overall responsibility for the mental well-being of offenders in their care and day-to-day leadership of the Mental Health Team in HMP YOI Isis.

Quality services based on evidence-based practice.

The post holder will have an ability to reach complex and critical judgements and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations and demands of the role.

The post holder will deliver and direct others to provide a range of evidence based clinical interventions for offenders.

The post holder will be required to take an active role in training and development both within their team and the establishment in general.

The post holder will work closely with the Quality Manager to develop audit and evaluation tools and improve the quality and clinical effectiveness of the service.

Main duties of the job

• Development of a high-quality health service
• Ensuring that appropriate systems are in place, which enable and facilitate positive practice such as assessment, screening, nurse-led triage, a range of low and high intensity interventions and robust CPA processes, continuity of care.
• Supervision of junior staff undertaking highly complex clinical interventions
• To represent Oxleas prison healthcare services and be an active member of Directorate and other Trust forums as required
• To actively promote and chair a range of integrated forums, such as case conferences, multi-disciplinary forums and professional meetings as necessary.
• To actively contribute to the strategic direction and planning of offender health services.
• To offer professional advice related to service developments.
• To effectively provide leadership, management, and support to healthcare staff.
• To be responsible for and directly manage delegated budgets as required.
• To ensure that the service provides clinically effective interventions which are guided by national and local standards and based on clinical evidence.
• To take a lead role in developing and fostering close interfaces with all prison departments and locations, such as Segregation, Reception & First Night centres, Education, ordinary location etc.

About us

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 and 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 and 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. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

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

Job responsibilities

• To lead on the planning and implementation of policies and procedures within the service
• To ensure that all clinical activity and interventions and responsibilities relating to care & practice are undertaken in a timely and appropriate manner.
• To ensure that staff develop and maintain up to date knowledge regarding their role, experience and interventions.
• To ensure staff are supported to achieve a high standard of practice via regular supervision, support meetings and personal development reviews and have access to the necessary training.
• To actively promote offender healthcare through the provision of information, formal presentations, general networking and liaison with prison, statutory and other non-statutory agencies.

Management responsibilities

• To ensure documentation is of a consistent high standard and meets the professional standards of practice.
• To ensure that staff maintain up to date electronic clinical records in accordance with professional, prison and trust standards.
• To ensure all record keeping related to own and others practice complies with professional, prison and trust standards.
• To lead on skill mix, recruitment and retention of staff in the Mental Health Team
• Promote a positive image of prison and offender healthcare services.
• To be responsible for and effectively manage delegated budgets as required.
• To ensure that staff adhere to Health and Safety guidelines and maintain safe environments and working practices.
• To act as an authorised signatory as required

Leadership

• To actively participate in the Trusts Personal Development plan (PDP) Procedures.
• To ensure all staff have a Personal Development Plan.
• To lead the team effectively ensuring competence to practice for all staff.
• To deal appropriately with staff issues such as absence, capability, performance management.
• To ensure regular supervision of junior staff.
• To lead on all aspects of recruitment.
• To undertake specialist interventions as required.
• To manage a multidisciplinary group of staff and deal with issues appropriately making autonomous decisions.
• Deal with staff problems and complaints.
• Respond and robustly manage all offender complaints and serious incidents.
• Manage highly complex interface issues between prison services, criminal justice agencies and healthcare services.
• Interprets policies and changes in legislation in relation to practice.

Clinical

• To be professionally accountable for the planning and delivery of mental health care in HMP YOI Isis, prioritising clinical needs to provide an effective and efficient service.
• To lead on and promote evidence based best practice in offender health services.
• To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of offenders with complex needs and challenging behaviour and provide complex case management approaches, joint-working arrangements, training, and advice to discipline officers to promote the safe and effective management of such cases.
• To assess the physical and mental health needs of a complex offender group, establish and evaluate appropriate treatment programmes.
• Create a therapeutic environment that is built upon recovery and robust risk assessment and management.
• To develop and ensure that safe and effective integrated care pathways are in place for all offenders.
• The post holder will act as a central point of access and link with local and national mental health services (both NHS and independent sector) to ensure consistent co-ordinated care.

Research

• To engage actively in practice development, evaluation, quality improvement, audit, and research activities relevant to mental/social care and/or services areas.
• To develop and promote evidence-based practice.

Communication

• To develop and maintain effective communication structures, facilitating two-way communication on professional and trust issues.
• To provide specialist professional advice to the Directorate, internal and external stakeholders as required.
• To work with statutory and voluntary agencies (prison & community) to ensure the provision of a seamless service such as prison services, health & social care services, education, police, probation, resettlement, offender management and advocacy projects to develop robust partnership and joint working arrangements.
• To establish robust communication networks with offenders, other health workers and agencies where there may be barriers to understanding.
• Resolve complex clinical matters between staff and offenders where persuasion, motivation and reassurance may be required.
• Communicate policy implementation in own area of practice and across other health departments.

Professional Development

• To apply specialist skills and knowledge in order to establish professional competence.
• To demonstrate ongoing personal development through participation in internal and external development opportunities and recording learning outcomes.
• To ensure own supervision requirements are met through regular supervision with their line manager.
• To identify individual training needs with their line manager.
• To maintain a supervision structure for staff and monitor its effectiveness.
• To attend relevant mandatory and professional development meetings to ensure own knowledge and skills are updated and shared with colleagues.
• To identify staff training and development needs and facilitate access to relevant courses or projects.
• To identify and contribute to the training of health staff regarding the development of quality offender health services.
• To promote and facilitate student nurse placements in offender health services.

Clinical Governance, Quality and Standards

• To work with the senior managers to develop and implement robust integrated clinical governance arrangements and quality agenda for the service.
• To ensure trust-wide standards and procedures are consistently applied in all aspects of practice.
• To advise on guidelines/legislation relating to prison healthcare.
• To participate in clinical governance projects as required.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

You will need to provide:

• Proof of right to work documentation
• Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
• Proof of address documentation
• Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
• 5 years address history will be needed.
• Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
• Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).

Person Specification

Application

Essential

• Previous experience
• B6 RMN - 3 year experience
• Degree / Masters level qualification
• Demonstrate leadership / managerial skills qualities

Desirable

• Previous prison experience
• Experience working with individuals with complex needs or offenders
• Ability to communicate both orally and electronically

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP YOI Isis
Western Way
Thamesmead
SE28 0NZ

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