Clinical Lead Mental Health Nurse

Job summary

Are you looking to advance your career as a nurse without moving into a management role ? Why not break into Prison healthcare?

Our Integrated Mental Health and Substance Use Teams at HMP Stoke Heath is looking for a dynamic and experienced Registered Mental Nurse to join our busy, friendly and dynamic team. The Integrated Mental Health & Substance Use Team is innovative forward thinking and committed to a Recovery focused approach

This is an exciting, challenging, and energetic role for an individual who is passionate about providing excellent quality Nurse leadership to a Mental Health & Substance Use Team within a busy and rewarding environment. The variety of the role will keep things fresh and stimulating whilst having the privilege to influence and lead the provision of high-quality mental health care to some of society's most vulnerable members

If this sounds like the job for you then, please keep reading

You will be a Registered Mental Nurse , with a flexible approach and want to clinically lead a team that encourages new ideas.You will be confident in dealing with a wide range of situations and working with other professionals to provide the best care to patients within the prison.You will take a lead nurse role within a full multi-disciplinary team to provide varied and comprehensive interventions in-line with the stepped care model.You will need an excellent working knowledge of the Mental Health Act and its application to prisoners who require transfer to hospital

Main duties of the job

Provide expert clinical knowledge and interventions, advice, support and supervision in the multi-disciplinary pathway, to colleagues, service users and carers. The post holder will be responsible for providing leadership to deliver evidence based care and interventions and providing professional nursing leadership within the pathway team

You will be responsible for:

• Leading the team in expert assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for a specific group of service users.
• Supervising and teach service users and carers, professionals from the multi-disciplinary teams, qualified and unqualified staff and the general public
• Working in partnership with service users, carers and other agencies to ensure effectiveness of outcomes.
• Developing, with specialists, non-medical prescribing clinics within the team.

About us

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex.We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide.We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support.Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team! For more information about HMP Stoke and our incentives offer please see attached information.