Job summary
- Main area
- Prison Mental Health Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: includes retention and recruitment allowance
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-7165729-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HMPYOI Stoke Heath
- Town
- Market Drayton
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 includes retention and recruitment allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Prison Mental Health Team Leader
NHS AfC: Band 6
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicant who require a visa to work in the UK, providing the role you’ve been recruited to meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
From 4 April 2024 overseas workers requiring a general Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) but sponsored by an NHS organisation will need to meet the new salary threshold of £38,700. In addition, applications to the Health and Care Visa route for those occupations paid by NHS bands that are on the immigration salary, a list of skilled jobs which have lower salary requirements, will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the new minimum salary threshold of £23,200 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list
https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa/different-salary-requirements
Job overview
We are look to appoint for the position of Prison Mental Health Team Leader based at HMPYOI Stoke Heath Prison.
In this role you would be responsible to overseeing and planning primary mental health services to ensure that identified patients receive assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of mental health needs. Central to the role is to act as the duty manager for all providers in relation to daily operational issues i.e. staffing, resources, incident management. Additionally, you would support our partner organisations by working in an integrated manner to ensure administration services are provided across Stoke Heath Integrated Care.
Main duties of the job
Support patients and exercise positive Use of statutory and organisational requirements and guidelines, relating to the administration of medicine.
Respect patient’s individuality and maintain their privacy, dignity and human rights within the constraints of the custodial environment.
Support patients to address issues which effect their own health, behaviour and social welfare. Provide patients with support during healthcare activities.
Support patients who are distressed who could be at risk of harm to themselves or others, or who are at risk of suicide.
Take responsibility for clinical treatment or appropriate referral to doctors or outside agencies, also removal of risk factors in a situation where risk of self harm, or harm to others or suicide seems evident.
Develop relationships with professional boundaries as part of a purposeful caring regime.
Respond to healthcare and prison emergencies, relating to prisoners, staff and visitors, within the establishment in accordance with policies and procedures.
Communicate effectively with other members of the healthcare team and other disciplines as required.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse - Level 1
- Competency in mental health risk assessment
- Evidence of appropriate knowledge base in primary mental health
- Diploma / Degree in nursing studies
- Non-medical prescriber (V300) qualification, or willingness to attain this.
- Experience and knowledge of confidentiality and data protection act.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent written and verbal presentation skills.
- Ability to manage own workload
- A working knowledge of Systm One in a clinical environment.
- Diplomatic and tactful, assertive when appropriate
- Ability to line manage a team, with skills to develop others within the team.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working on own initiative and organising own workload without supervision
- Experience of working to tight and often changing timescales
- Experience of working as part of a team
- Experience of line manager duties / managing others within a team, or willingness to gain these skills
- Demonstrate an understanding of audit
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Wendy Sweeney
- Job title
- Clinical Nurse Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01630636035
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