Job summary
Our BEH London Prison situated in North London, has a vacancy for a 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.
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 Care co-ordinator will be a qualified Social Worker with sound experience in Mental Health, knowledge and experience of forensic mental health service provision and offender care.
As well as the outstanding development opportunities within the Health in Justice Team, this is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Social Worker to join our Trust as our prison services are transforming in partnership with other healthcare providers.
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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 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
The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth London Mental Health Partnership.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
- We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
- Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
- Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
- Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
- We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
- Generous Annual Leave Allowance
- NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Job description
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- BA / MA (Hons) Social Work Evidence of further post registration education and training or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification.
Desirable
- Recognised training in teaching/mentorship/supervision.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Post registration experience as a Band 5 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.
- Experience of working with Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
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.
- Ability to prioritise workload and emergency / crisis referrals.
- Ability to formulate care plans and packages of care.
Desirable
- Ability to engage in group work and supportive therapy.
- Ability to contribute to new strategies and policy development.
- Ability to lead and manage others in the provision of care.
- Knowledge of Data Protection Act.
- Knowledge of Health & Safety requirements.
- Ability and confidence to take responsibility in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating the standards of care programmes in the community.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- BA / MA (Hons) Social Work Evidence of further post registration education and training or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification.
Desirable
- Recognised training in teaching/mentorship/supervision.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Post registration experience as a Band 5 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.
- Experience of working with Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
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.
- Ability to prioritise workload and emergency / crisis referrals.
- Ability to formulate care plans and packages of care.
Desirable
- Ability to engage in group work and supportive therapy.
- Ability to contribute to new strategies and policy development.
- Ability to lead and manage others in the provision of care.
- Knowledge of Data Protection Act.
- Knowledge of Health & Safety requirements.
- Ability and confidence to take responsibility in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating the standards of care programmes in the community.
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).
