Senior Mental Health Nurse

Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities.

A summary is as follows

Responsible for the management of own caseload, this will include the assessment, monitoring and provision of specialist nursing interventions to individual prisoners with secondary mental health needs. In addition the post holder is responsible for arranging aftercare as required and ensuring care is co-ordinated with other services if necessary. To provide a range of interventions across the integrated offender health model this includes primary care and wellbeing interventions where appropriate. To support and liaise with substance misuse team, primary care team and to deliver wellbeing interventions.

Deputy Head of Operations

Practice and Development Lead Senior Cluster Manager Team Manager Senior Mental Health Nurse Mental Health Nurse Act upon referrals from Prison based Primary Care staff, and external teams. Referrals are allocated through the weekly team meeting. The post holder will provide assessment, implementation and development of care programmes for individuals on their caseload. To be aware of polices relating to vulnerable adults and mental capacity and to be able to work within this framework. To be able to work within the Mental Health Act 1983 with a robust knowledge of how it is deployed within the criminal justice service Be familiar with and ensure implementation of all local, regional and national policies, procedures and guidelines pertinent to all staff within area of responsibility and comply with their contents in the pursuit of the highest standards of patient care. To ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times including all dissemination of information and records.