Mental Health Nurse Practitioner- Enhanced Support Service

The Enhanced Support Service team is commissioned by NHS England as part of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway and works alongside clinical & discipline staff to provide individualised assessment, care / management plans and risk assessment for a small caseload of often challenging patients. This service aims to reduce the negative impact of violent and disruptive behaviour in prisons using a dedicated multi-disciplinary staff team that works in partnership across prison, healthcare, and Forensic Psychology services. This partnership underpins the design, implementation, and successful delivery of this service. Main duties of the job You will be required to input into internal and external meetings regarding the clients that are part of the ESS service. The post-holder will be a resource to staff across healthcare and the wider prison providing advice and support to the care of these service users to ensure best outcomes. The ESS will target the small minority of prisoners in the establishment who demonstrate severe and persistent violent and disruptive behaviour that has not responded to existing strategies and interventions. Staff will work intensively with prisoners in a collaborative manner to develop motivation to facilitate better settlement, improved psychological wellbeing and in the long term, access to sentence planning services for this population. The team will work in a psychologically informed manner and be supported by formulations based on understanding of the prisoners with whom they are working. The team will work indirectly with staff to increase understanding and appropriate management of these prisoners. The post-holder will be required to input into internal and external meetings regarding the clients that are part of the ESS service, For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading.

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Masters degree or equivalent level of experience
• Clinical experience of the assessment, treatment and support of people personality disorder.
• Either working as a B7 or minimum of 2 years of experience of working at a Band 6.
Desirable
• Experience of working with offenders
• Experiencing of teaching, training and supervision
• Has training and experience of audit, evaluation and research
• Excellent organisational skills and an ability to work with deadlines and to manage time effectively.
Skills and Abilities Essential
• Experience of working with people whose communication skills are impacted upon by their mental health and where reasonable adjustments need to be made
• Knowledge of CPA, Mental Health Act, MAPPA, legislation, and policies relevant to prison mental health.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and independently as appropriate
Desirable
• Knowledge of current challenges / developments in Prison health.
• Ability to manage highly sensitive and complex information and relay this is a sensitive way to patients.
• Awareness of screening tools and assessments within specialist area.
• Excellent organisational skills and an ability to work with deadlines and to manage time effectively.
  
  NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community.
Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.