Bank Mental Health Practitioner -HMP

Bank Mental Health Practitioner – HMP Bristol

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Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.

Oxleas NHS Trust was awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and currently has a portfolio of 19 prisons across the South of England. We are looking to expand our pool of bank workers by recruiting Mental Health Practitioners to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis.

As a Mental Health Practitioner you will provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders and work as part of the Mental Health In‑Reach Team, delivering interventions such as referral management, screening assessment, triage, evidence‑based interventions, care planning and risk assessment, as well as one‑to‑one and group facilitation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing a mixed and challenging caseload, including offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions.
• Conducting robust assessment, screening, and interventions to support offender recovery and reduce length of stay.
• Contributing to alternatives to inpatient admission and assisting with early discharge through high‑intensity interventions.
• Collaborating closely with community mental health teams to ensure continuity of care and share information under the Care Programme Approach.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environments, including district nursing, speech and language therapy, care for learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and work in partnership with NHS, local councils and voluntary sector. We employ 4,300 staff across hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and homes across the South of England.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families, guided by our values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

For further details or informal visits, contact:

Name:
Carly Fudgell

Job title:

Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer

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