Reach Mental Health Practitioner

Main area Offender Healthcare Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday
- Friday 0900 - 1700hrs) Job  
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Site HMP Wandsworth Town London Salary £47,951 - £56,863 pa inc Salary period Yearly Closing 09/10/2026 23:59

Toprovidespecialistmentalhealthcaretooffendersandto workaspartofthe Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider mental health services in HMP Wandsworth

Todeliverarangeofspecialistinterventionsatprimaryandsecondarycarelevel. to include:

• Referral management,screening assessment,triage,andevidencebased intervention
• One-to-oneandgroup-work facilitation

Important Sponsorship Information for this post:
We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post

• To contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assisting with early discharge, through the implementation of high intensity specialist interventionsandcomplexcasemanagementarrangementsresultingincontinuityof careforan offender on ordinary location, reduced length of stay (both in relation to prison inpatient services and external NHS or independent in-patient services).
• Toperformrobustassessment,screening,andinterventionstooffenderswitha learning disability
• Ensurethatallwaitingtime,assessmentandinterventionsaredeliveredin a timely manner,andpositivelycontributetotheachievementoftheservices. performance targets.
• Ensure integrated and collaborative working with other specialist services, includingcontinuityofcareandthroughthegatearrangementsandliaison.
• Work closely with community mental health teams (CMHTs) to ensure appropriate sharing of information, continuity of care and the Care Programme Approach (CPA) foralloffendersas necessary.

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 Listen
• We Care

• Tocommunicateeffectivelyonarangeofissuesthatareoftencomplexintheir nature and in complex situations.
• Participateintheannualappraisalreviewsanddemonstratereflectivepracticethrough the Knowledge and Skills Framework
• Tomaintaincomprehensiveandtimelyelectronicclinicalrecordsensuring confidentiality is always maintained.
• Bemindfuloftheunpredictablenatureoftheworkingenvironment,thejob requirement and offender groups.

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All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison…