Job summary
The Offending Behaviour Intervention Service (OBIS) is a small, highly-specialised multi-disciplinary team and is a function of HPFT Herts Specialist learning disabilities Service (SLDS). OBIS provides interventions to reduce risk for service users aged 18 years and over with learning disabilities and a history of offending, or who are at risk of offending that would cause significant harm to themselves or others.
We have a vacancy for a band 6 registered learning disability or mental health nurse to join the OBIS team. The successful candidate will have experience in the fields of working in community learning disability/ adult mental health services and/ or ATU and/or forensic inpatient practice in the assessment and treatment of offenders with learning disabilities. The successful candidate will have highly developed knowledge and skills in risk assessment and management planning and in multi disciplinary practices. They will be supported to continue to develop their knowledge, skills and experience working in the community forensic field with people who have learning disabilities through the provision of excellent professional supervision, clinical practice and CPD opportunities. We welcome applicants who have passion and initiative to bring with them to this new role.
Main duties of the job
- Specialist risk assessment and management.
- Early intervention and advice, where risk behaviour is evident, but no offence has taken place.
- Individual and group offence-specific interventions aimed at reducing offending (including sexual offences; violent and aggressive offences and fire setting).
- Liaison, advice and joint working with the local legal system, including police, MAPPA, probation service and the MDO panel.
- Advice and support and training to mainstream learning disability services on the safe management of people in the community.
The team has demonstrated that we provide an extremely cost effective alternative to a stay in a secure hospital or specialist forensic 24/7 community based packages of care.
Through the commissioning of OBIS, Hertfordshire Transforming Care Partnership have made a major contribution to developing the thinking around community forensic provision for service users with a learning disability. OBIS has gained a reputation nationally as a trail-blazer in design and delivery of a community forensic services for adults with learning disabilities, and is frequently consulted by people looking to set up similar services in other areas of the country.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on..."
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities:
- To maintain a personal and professional profile in line with NMC Revalidation requirements.
- To maintain and promote practice within the Mental Health Act (1983), amended 2007, Mental Capacity Act, 2005 and Hertfordshire Safeguarding Adults frameworks.
- To work with the clinical team and Team Managers to provide and ensure high standards of clinical practice and to seek continuous improvement through a culture of audit and learning.
- To provide a person centred approach integrated within the care planning approach, which optimises integration into community life.
- Ensure the safe management of drugs and their administration, in accordance with legal, professional and Trust policies and procedures.
- Complete all service user data in line with Trust Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
- To participate in and encourage service user involvement by way of Having Your Say forms and other service user accessible methods of feedback on service provision.
- To adhere to HPFT Untoward Incident reporting procedures.
- To adhere to HPFT Out of Hours reporting procedures & local Lone Worker policy arrangements.
- To participate in and encourage a multi-disciplinary approach at all times.
- To develop and maintain a culture in which service users, supported by their advocates, where appropriate, are able to share in decisions, which affect their lives.
- Carry out all responsibilities with due regard to the NMC The Code: Professional Standards of practice and behaviour.
- Prioritise workload in order to ensure effective use of time and resources, seeking support from relevant team members as required.
- To take a lead role in supporting student placements within the services.
- To maintain appropriate records according to NMC Record Keeping & HPFT Data Quality policy and guidance.
Clinical Responsibility
- Undertake clinical risk assessment and management plans and develop within these, comprehensive multi agency
- To be one of the nursing specialist within OBIS
- To provide specialist nursing advice for offenders with learning disabilities. This includes direct work with service users and families, advice to colleagues, other service providers and carers.
- To manage a case-load and operate as a named health worker to service users this includes care co-ordination as per Care Programme Approach (CPA) within the HPFT CPA policy.
- To identify and provide training in response to specific service user needs within a variety of settings where the care of the individual is provided.
- To carry out joint assessments with other disciplines / agencies where appropriate
- To take part in research of the health needs of people who have a Learning Disabilities to assist in developing high quality services to meet the needs of the service users and to enable learning and development to encourage high performing teams.
- To maintain a personal and professional profile to fulfil NMC Revalidation requirements.
- To maintain and promote practice within the Mental Health Act (1983), amended 2007, Mental Capacity Act, 2005 and Hertfordshire Safeguarding Adults frameworks.
- To work with the clinical team and Team Managers to provide and ensure high standards of clinical practice and to seek continuous improvement through Practice Governance a culture of audit and learning.
- To provide a person centred approach integrated within the care planning approach, which optimises integration into community life.
- Ensure the safe management of medicines and their administration, in accordance with legal, professional and Trust policies and procedures.
- Complete all service user data in line with Trust Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
- To participate in and encourage service user involvement by way of Having Your Say forms and other service user accessible methods of feedback on service provision.
- To adhere to HPFT Untoward Incident reporting procedures.
- To adhere to HPFT Out of Hours reporting procedures & local Lone Worker policy arrangements.
- To participate in and encourage a multi-disciplinary approach at all times.
- To develop and maintain a culture in which service users, supported by their advocates, where appropriate, are able to share in decisions, which affect their lives.
- Carry out all responsibilities with due regard to the NMC The Code: Professional Standards of practice and behaviour.
- Prioritise workload in order to ensure effective use of time and resources, seeking support from relevant team members as required.
- To take the lead role in supporting student placements within the services.
- To maintain appropriate records according to NMC Record Keeping & HPFT Data Quality policy and guidance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities:
- To maintain a personal and professional profile in line with NMC Revalidation requirements.
- To maintain and promote practice within the Mental Health Act (1983), amended 2007, Mental Capacity Act, 2005 and Hertfordshire Safeguarding Adults frameworks.
- To work with the clinical team and Team Managers to provide and ensure high standards of clinical practice and to seek continuous improvement through a culture of audit and learning.
- To provide a person centred approach integrated within the care planning approach, which optimises integration into community life.
- Ensure the safe management of drugs and their administration, in accordance with legal, professional and Trust policies and procedures.
- Complete all service user data in line with Trust Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
- To participate in and encourage service user involvement by way of Having Your Say forms and other service user accessible methods of feedback on service provision.
- To adhere to HPFT Untoward Incident reporting procedures.
- To adhere to HPFT Out of Hours reporting procedures & local Lone Worker policy arrangements.
- To participate in and encourage a multi-disciplinary approach at all times.
- To develop and maintain a culture in which service users, supported by their advocates, where appropriate, are able to share in decisions, which affect their lives.
- Carry out all responsibilities with due regard to the NMC The Code: Professional Standards of practice and behaviour.
- Prioritise workload in order to ensure effective use of time and resources, seeking support from relevant team members as required.
- To take a lead role in supporting student placements within the services.
- To maintain appropriate records according to NMC Record Keeping & HPFT Data Quality policy and guidance.
Clinical Responsibility
- Undertake clinical risk assessment and management plans and develop within these, comprehensive multi agency
- To be one of the nursing specialist within OBIS
- To provide specialist nursing advice for offenders with learning disabilities. This includes direct work with service users and families, advice to colleagues, other service providers and carers.
- To manage a case-load and operate as a named health worker to service users this includes care co-ordination as per Care Programme Approach (CPA) within the HPFT CPA policy.
- To identify and provide training in response to specific service user needs within a variety of settings where the care of the individual is provided.
- To carry out joint assessments with other disciplines / agencies where appropriate
- To take part in research of the health needs of people who have a Learning Disabilities to assist in developing high quality services to meet the needs of the service users and to enable learning and development to encourage high performing teams.
- To maintain a personal and professional profile to fulfil NMC Revalidation requirements.
- To maintain and promote practice within the Mental Health Act (1983), amended 2007, Mental Capacity Act, 2005 and Hertfordshire Safeguarding Adults frameworks.
- To work with the clinical team and Team Managers to provide and ensure high standards of clinical practice and to seek continuous improvement through Practice Governance a culture of audit and learning.
- To provide a person centred approach integrated within the care planning approach, which optimises integration into community life.
- Ensure the safe management of medicines and their administration, in accordance with legal, professional and Trust policies and procedures.
- Complete all service user data in line with Trust Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
- To participate in and encourage service user involvement by way of Having Your Say forms and other service user accessible methods of feedback on service provision.
- To adhere to HPFT Untoward Incident reporting procedures.
- To adhere to HPFT Out of Hours reporting procedures & local Lone Worker policy arrangements.
- To participate in and encourage a multi-disciplinary approach at all times.
- To develop and maintain a culture in which service users, supported by their advocates, where appropriate, are able to share in decisions, which affect their lives.
- Carry out all responsibilities with due regard to the NMC The Code: Professional Standards of practice and behaviour.
- Prioritise workload in order to ensure effective use of time and resources, seeking support from relevant team members as required.
- To take the lead role in supporting student placements within the services.
- To maintain appropriate records according to NMC Record Keeping & HPFT Data Quality policy and guidance.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential
- Academic qualifications RNLD
- ENB 997/998 (Mentoring & Preceptorship or equivalent
Desirable
- Post graduate Qualification
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential
- 2 years experience of working with adults with a Learning Disability & their carers within the community
- Experience of working within learning disability Assessment and Treatment settings, community based learning disability teams or similar.
- Multi-disciplinary and inter-agency working
- Day to day management of staff at supervisory level.
- Experience of working with service users with Challenging Behaviour, Epilepsy, and Mental Ill Health.
Desirable
- Experience of working service users with forensic needs
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential
- Academic qualifications RNLD
- ENB 997/998 (Mentoring & Preceptorship or equivalent
Desirable
- Post graduate Qualification
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential
- 2 years experience of working with adults with a Learning Disability & their carers within the community
- Experience of working within learning disability Assessment and Treatment settings, community based learning disability teams or similar.
- Multi-disciplinary and inter-agency working
- Day to day management of staff at supervisory level.
- Experience of working with service users with Challenging Behaviour, Epilepsy, and Mental Ill Health.
Desirable
- Experience of working service users with forensic needs
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
