Job overview

The Nurse Practitioner within the Health and Wellbeing Team in HMP & YOI Feltham will be committed to providing healthcare services in custody, equivalent to those in the community. Post-holders will have broad experience of working in successful Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and will have a good understanding of what is required to deliver an effective mental health service for young people in a custodial setting.

The post holder will participate in and co-delivering  of training, attending team Reflective Practice as a key part of the role, facilitating a therapeutic culture and activities on the units including Community Meetings, contributing to Formulations and, where appropriate, providing supervision to prison staff.

The Health and Wellbeing Team will deliver a service that includes the following interventions: brief interventions, crisis resolution, early intervention in psychosis, dual diagnosis, learning disability and personality disorder. The Team will provide a multi-disciplinary approach, with a variety of therapeutic options, and an emphasis on (mental) health and wellbeing across the YOI.

Main duties of the job

To ensure duties are carried out in accordance with the service contract, the Health and Justice; Children and Young People Service Line, the YOI Service and the post-holder’s professional guidelines.

To be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work with young people and adults, with mental health difficulties and learning disability.

To be responsible for initial assessment and developing, implementing and reviewing short term therapeutic interventions for referred young people where the work can be considered early intervention. The post-holder will carry out this process in consultation, as appropriate, with the young person and their family/carer, prison staff, fellow team members, other professionals, and the referrer.

To operate as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing a role that contributes to both the generic and specialist work of the Health and Wellbeing Team. Contribute to the integrated landing-based health support team for an identified landing, including being a visible presence on the landing and developing good working relationship with young people and staff.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Working for our organisation

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust offers its staff ongoing career progression through monthly supervision, annual personal development plans/appraisals and access to exciting internal and external training opportunities. Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities such as but not limited to a Preceptorship Programme, Support and guidance with Revalidation, Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies. Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and relocation package.

The trust also values its staff and you are entitled to become a member of MyTrustBenefits.  MyTrustBenefits is an online portal for all CNWL staff, as well as their family and friends. It offers over 1400 discounts at hundreds of retailers nationwide. Save money on your weekly food shops, toiletries, cosmetics, cinema, meals out, holidays, travel and entertainment.  You can also access free online courses on a variety of topics, professional and personal, ranging from business management, languages, law and teaching.

HMP Feltham offer free parking for staff.