Senior Mental Health Nurse: HMP Lincoln

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Mental Health Nurse to join the Offender Health Care Group working at HMP Lincoln. To provide effective Mental Health services for prisoners, which deliver against required standards, e.g., Key Performance Indicators and Prison Health Performance Quality Indicators and CPA standards. To demonstrate innovative practice whilst maintaining clinical efficacy, enabling the service to compete as provider of choice to local commissioners.

This role is for registered nurses, with NMC registration, who wish to pursue a career within Offender Health, with proven post registration experience in supporting patients with primary and/or secondary Mental Health needs and have a good knowledge and understanding of CPA and risk assessment. You should be enthusiastic, motivated, patient focused and enjoy a challenge.

Main duties of the job

You will be a registered nurse with demonstrable experience in mental health and associated professional development. Working with men from arrival in the prison through to their release back into the community, you will feel rewarded in your ability to deliver a bespoke package of care to address and improve health inequalities to individuals with diverse and complex health needs. Delivering a wide range of positive health opportunities to individuals in custody, which is equal to and often above what is offered in the community.

Job responsibilities

The Offender Health Care Group is one of the largest and most successful providers of prison healthcare in the UK. The Care Group provide physical, mental health and substance misuse healthcare services in prisons across the East Midlands, Lincolnshire & Leicestershire. Providing healthcare to several Prisons, for a population of over 10,000. You would be part of a large peer group of 400+ healthcare professionals, with access to peer support, supervision and excellent opportunities for learning and development.

We are committed to working in partnership with prison services, national probation service other healthcare providers and our criminal justice system partners to improve health, support justice to reduce re-offending behaviour. The Offender Health Team truly believes it can make a difference to the lives of offenders by offering consistent, high-quality care in primary, mental health and substance misuse services that are equivalent to health services delivered outside of Prison.

This role enables you to work autonomously, whilst always having the support of a strong team when required. There are opportunities and support for progression for the right candidate, which can be anything from completing a full Preceptorship to a masters degree. As a senior nurse, you will also be responsible for supporting and supervising junior staff, to engage in individual and group supervision and reflective practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered RMN
• NMC registered
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Mentor and Assessor Experience

Experience

• A genuine interest in working with this client group and in Offender Mental health related issues
• Experience of working in secondary Mental Health Services
• Supervision and appraisal of staff
• Experience of working effectively within a MDT/interagency working
• Forensic and/or prison/or criminal justice nursing experience

Knowledge

• CPA systems and processes
• An understanding of Personality Disorders
• Able to offer support in a crisis situation and have experience of working with patients who self-harm.
• Knowledge and or experience of the ACCT process.
• Local and National strategies including issues relevant to the criminal justice system

Skills

• Good communicator with both verbal and written text.
• Organisational skills to manage and prioritise own work load
• IT skills including Patient Administration Systems (S1)
• Evidence of effective and appropriate documentation
• Ability to engage with and develop a rapport with the client group
• Evidence of working as part of a multi disciplinary team
• Effective problem and decision solving skills

Values and Behaviours

• All colleagues are expected to demonstrate at interview that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion, Teamwork
• All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion as identified within the Trust's Equality and Diversity Policy and associated Equality, Diversity and Human Rights legislation

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per annum (pro rata for part time)