Mental Health Team Manager

An expert practitioner, the post holder is a source of expert advice to theIntegrated Mental Health Team, prison staff & offenders. They hold overall responsibility for the mental well-being of offenders in their care and day-to-day leadership of the Mental Health Team in HMP YOI Isis. Quality services based on evidence-based practice. The post holder will have an ability to reach complex and critical judgements and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations and demands of the role. The post holder will deliver and direct others to provide a range of evidence based clinical interventions for offenders. The post holder will be required to take an active role in training and development both within their team and the establishment in general. The post holder will work closely with the Quality Manager to develop audit and evaluation tools and improve the quality and clinical effectiveness of the service.Main duties of the job Development of a high-quality health service Ensuring that appropriate systems are in place, which enable and facilitate positive practice such as assessment, screening, nurse-led triage, a range of low and high intensity interventions and robust CPA processes, continuity of care. Supervision of junior staff undertaking highly complex clinical interventions To represent Oxleas prison healthcare services and be an active member of Directorate and other Trust forums as required To actively promote and chair a range of integrated forums, such as case conferences, multi-disciplinary forums and professional meetings as necessary. To actively contribute to the strategic direction and planning of offender health services. To offer professional advice related to service developments. To effectively provide leadership, management, and support to healthcare staff. To be responsible for and directly manage delegated budgets as required. To ensure that the service provides clinically effective interventions which are guided by national and local standards and based on clinical evidence. To take a lead role in developing and fostering close interfaces with all prison departments and locations, such as Segregation, Reception & First Night centres, Education, ordinary location etc.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care