# Mental Health Nurse Practitioner - Primary Care Mental Health

**Company**: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £45,953 to £54,254 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner to join our Primary Care Mental Health team at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. As a key member of the integrated healthcare team, you will provide initial screenings and assessments for new intakes, develop care plans, and make referrals to ensure continuity of care for people resident in the prison.

**Main Duties:**

- Provide initial reception and secondary screening services for new intakes into the prison estate

- Conduct assessments and identify healthcare needs

- Make appropriate referrals to the integrated multi-disciplinary team (MDT)

- Collaborate with people on initial plans of care

- Ensure prompt and relevant referrals to appropriate teams for comprehensive healthcare interventions

- Follow up on referrals for the first 14 days after patients' arrival at the prison

- Work as an integral member of the EDIC/Releases and Transfer team

- Conduct pre-release planning clinics and other relevant interventions

- Provide primary mental health engagement, reviews, and interventions to people on the primary mental health caseload

**Requirements:**

- Minimum 2 years post NMC registration as RMN/RLD

- Minimum 2 years working experience as an RMN/RLD

- Current UK professional registration

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salary: £45,953 to £54,254 per annum

- Permanent, full-time position

- Agenda for Change pay scheme

- Band 6

**Location:** HMP ISIS, Western Road, Thamesmead, London, SE28 0NZ

## Skills

### Required
- RMN
- RLD
- NMC registration
- primary care mental health
- prison healthcare

### Nice to have
- experience of managing junior staff

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