Job summary
Our BEH London Prison, has a vacancy for a Band 6 Mental Health 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. This support would ensure the service reflects the London Wide service.
The ideal candidate will need to ensure they are consistently operating in line with the New Models of care by providing an ongoing high standard and an integrated triage, assessment and intervention to individuals within our prison settings who are presenting with mental health problems.
The post holder will work collaboratively with staff across healthcare and the wider prison establishment, providing specialist advice to healthcare colleagues, particularly GPs in the assessment, planning 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. In addition, the post holder will be required to facilitate the transfer of mentally ill prisoners to and from NHS hospitals.
Main duties of the job
To work as a member of the Mental Health Service at HMP Pentonville.
To work across the service functions including early days in custody, planned care, crisis care and release and transfer.
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.
To complete clinical risk assessments at first and subsequent assessment interview and accurately record and report key risks
To review and evaluate treatment plans at agreed intervals in collaboration with the patient and members of the multidisciplinary team
To act as CPA coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including patients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care in consultation with the MDT.
To provide crisis assessments, co-produce crisis plans and provide interventions to resolve crises, working with the MDT, wider healthcare service, prison and the service user's support network.
To provide care, custody and administration of medication in accordance with the Trust's policies and the NMC Code of Practice.
About us
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust is responsible for providing mental health services for people of all ages across the London Boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey, as well as providing some specialist services across the whole of North London and beyond. Since January 2011, the Trust also provides adult and children's community health services in Enfield, following the transfer of Enfield Community Services from NHS Enfield.
North London Forensic Service (NLFS) has been rated as OUTSTANDING again by the Care Quality Commission, and part of this is our dedicated and skilled staff team who have a number of development opportunities open to them across a varied number of innovative services within the criminal justice pathway.
We are excited that our prison services are transforming in partnership with other healthcare providers across our BEH London Prisons and are looking for candidates who are interested in working in prison mental health to come and work with us in our Mental Health Hub.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Mental Health Care co-ordinator will be a qualified RMN or Occupational Therapist with sound experience in Mental Health and knowledge and experience of forensic mental health service provision, offender care and be committed to team working.
As well as the outstanding development and career progression opportunities within the Health in Justice Team,This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic Mental Health care-coordinator to join our Trust as ourprison services are transforming in partnership with other healthcare providers.
Please kindly clink the link below to watch a short summary about the Specialist services Team: Meet the Specialist Services team at BEH - Jonathan Stephen - YouTube
Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Mental Health Care co-ordinator will be a qualified RMN or Occupational Therapist with sound experience in Mental Health and knowledge and experience of forensic mental health service provision, offender care and be committed to team working.
As well as the outstanding development and career progression opportunities within the Health in Justice Team,This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic Mental Health care-coordinator to join our Trust as ourprison services are transforming in partnership with other healthcare providers.
Please kindly clink the link below to watch a short summary about the Specialist services Team: Meet the Specialist Services team at BEH - Jonathan Stephen - YouTube
Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Dip/BSc (Hons) in Mental Health Nursing, Social Work or Occupational Therapy
- Evidence of further post registration education and training or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification
Desirable
- Recognised training in teaching/mentorship/supervision
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Post registration experience as a Band 5 Mental Health Nurse/OT or Social Worker, preferably within a Forensic Setting.
Desirable
- Experience / Interest In group work, talking therapies and therapeutic activities.
- Experience of working within a Trauma informed framework.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to plan and organise a range of complex clinical activities which require judgments to be made on competing factors.
- Ability to undertake risk assessments using standardised or semi-structured risk assessment methods
Desirable
- Ability to engage in group work and supportive therapy.
- Ability to lead and manage others in the provision of care
- Ability and confidence to take responsibility in planning,
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to work independently and autonomously.
- Excellent communication skills both oral and written.
- Ability to manage conflict.
Desirable
- Ability to contribute to new strategies and policy development.
- Knowledge of Health & Safety requirements.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Dip/BSc (Hons) in Mental Health Nursing, Social Work or Occupational Therapy
- Evidence of further post registration education and training or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification
Desirable
- Recognised training in teaching/mentorship/supervision
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Post registration experience as a Band 5 Mental Health Nurse/OT or Social Worker, preferably within a Forensic Setting.
Desirable
- Experience / Interest In group work, talking therapies and therapeutic activities.
- Experience of working within a Trauma informed framework.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to plan and organise a range of complex clinical activities which require judgments to be made on competing factors.
- Ability to undertake risk assessments using standardised or semi-structured risk assessment methods
Desirable
- Ability to engage in group work and supportive therapy.
- Ability to lead and manage others in the provision of care
- Ability and confidence to take responsibility in planning,
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to work independently and autonomously.
- Excellent communication skills both oral and written.
- Ability to manage conflict.
Desirable
- Ability to contribute to new strategies and policy development.
- Knowledge of Health & Safety requirements.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
