Mental Health Nurse Practitioner -Primary Care Mental Health | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

To provide Initial screening/assessments for new intakes, work collaboratively within the integrated Healthcare team to identify needs, create care plans and provide referrals, including Mental Health interventions and other appropriate support to ensure continuity of care for people resident in the prison.

Providing Initial Reception and secondary screening services for new intakes into the prison Estate, including assessment and identifying healthcare needs, highlighting appropriate care pathways, making appropriate referrals to the Integrated MDT and collaborating with people on initial plans of care.

Ensuring prompt and relevant referrals to appropriate teams for comprehensive healthcare interventions and following up on the referrals for the first 14 days after the patients’ arrival at the prison.

Work as an integral member of the EDIC/Releases and Transfer team – including conducting pre-release planning clinics and all other relevant interventions as assigned by the EDIC Manager.

To provide Primary Mental Health engagement, reviews and interventions to people on the primary mental health caseload, including attending ACCT reviews, CPAs, caseload planning meetings, caseload reviews and MDT meetings.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

As a Primary Mental/ EDiC Health Practitioner, you will;

Ensure that newly arrived prisoners are assessed, their healthcare needs identified, appropriate referrals made to relevant care pathways and that they are supported during their first 14 days in the prison to access relevant healthcare services and manage their general health and wellbeing whilst in prison.

Engage in Reception Health screenings and assessments for new intakes and other offenders; Secondary screenings; EDiC reviews; ACCT reviews, whenever required; medication administrations; including Depot medications; Mental health care planning and caseload reviews, including managing the Primary Mental health caseload as required; Releases and Transfer planning and any other duties as assigned by the EDIC Manager.

Development of an individualized crisis plan (early warning signs, what has been helpful before shared with all services and consistent with service specification

Collect and synthesize all relevant clinical history to ensure safety, continuity of care and minimal re-assessments for the patient and ensuring that the records held for patients are up to date and accurate.

Ensure ongoing care for every person requiring it, with clear pathway management in place that is understood by the patient and their families /significant others.

Information is shared where appropriate and consent has been given to ensure that care plans and risks for patients are widely understood by all staff supporting them, including HMPPS staff where appropriate. This will be done with full patient consent.

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