Description
North London NHS Foundation Trust has a vacancy for a Mental Health Nurse (Care Co-ordinator). The core of this role is to support the delivery of care, which is currently in the form of New Models of Care.
The ideal candidate will need to ensure they are operating in line with the New Models of care by providing a high standard to individuals within our prison settings who are presenting with mental health problems.
The post holder will work with staff across healthcare and the wider prison establishment, providing specialist advice particularly to GPs in the assessment and treatment of patients on the prison residential wings.
The successful candidate will need to adapt to and embrace a recovery and enablement model to seamlessly realign prisoners with mental health problems alongside their local community-based mental health service upon release from prison.
The Mental Health Nurse (Care co-ordinator) will be a qualified RMN with experience in Mental Health, knowledge and experience of forensic mental health service provision and offender care.
Main duties of the job
- To work as a member of the Mental Health Service at HMP Wormwood Scrubs
- To work across the service functions including early days in custody, planned care, crisis care and release and transfer.
- To be responsible for implementing sound clinical skills in mental health practice, including CPA care co-ordination, group work, risk assessment and management and crisis intervention.
- Be responsible and accountable for the management of own caseload as directed by the Mental Health Hub Manager.
- To provide skilled assessments of patients' emotional and psychological needs based upon the understanding, interpretation and integration of complex data given by the patient and obtained from other sources.
- To provide psychosocial interventions for patients with moderate to complex mental health difficulties.
- Jointly facilitate group work with multi-disciplinary colleagues (including education staff)
- To complete clinical risk assessments at first and subsequent assessment interview and accurately record and report key risks
- To develop care plans in collaboration with the patient, carer and other relevant person or agency.
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Benefits
- Outstanding development opportunities within the Health in Justice Team
- Transforming prison services in partnership with other healthcare providers
Requirements
- Dip/BSC (Hons) in Mental Health Nursing
- Evidence of further post registration education and training or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification.
- Post registration experience as a Band 5 RMN, preferably within a Forensic Setting
- Recognised training in teaching/mentorship/supervision
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