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Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of the North London Way as we:  

• Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together​
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes​
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance ​and ensure consistently high quality care across all our services
• Ensure that research, Quality Improvement and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services 
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

 We look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership

Job overview

Our BEH London Prison situated in South London, has a vacancy for a Mental Health Care Co-ordinator. The core of this role is to support the delivery of care, which is currently in the form of New Models of Care. 

The ideal candidate will need to ensure they are operating in line with the New Models of care by providing a high standard to individuals within our prison settings who are presenting with mental health problems.

The post holder will work with staff across healthcare and the wider prison establishment, providing specialist advice particularly to GPs in the assessment and treatment of patients on the prison residential wings.

The successful candidate will need to adapt to and embrace a recovery and enablement model to seamlessly realign prisoners with mental health problems alongside their local community- based mental health service upon release from prison. 

The Care co-ordinator will be a qualified RMN with sound experience in Mental Health, knowledge and experience of forensic mental health service provision and offender care. 

As well as the outstanding development opportunities within the Health in Justice Team, This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Mental Health care-coordinator to join our Trust as our prison services are transforming in partnership with other healthcare providers.  

Please kindly clink the link below to watch a summary about the Specialist services Team: Meet the Specialist Services team at BEH - Jonathan Stephen - YouTube

Main duties of the job

To work as a member of the Mental Health Service at HMP Brixton.

To work across the service functions including early days in custody, planned care, crisis care and release and transfer.

To be responsible for implementing sound clinical skills in mental health practice, including CPA care co-ordination, group work, risk assessment and management and crisis intervention.

Be responsible and accountable for the management of own caseload as directed by the Mental Health Hub Manager.

To provide skilled assessments of patients’ emotional and psychological needs based upon the understanding, interpretation and integration of complex data given by the patient and obtained from other sources.

To provide psychosocial interventions for patients with moderate to complex mental health difficulties.

Jointly facilitate group work with multi-disciplinary colleagues (including education staff)

To complete clinical risk assessments at first and subsequent assessment interview and accurately record and report key risks

To develop care plans in collaboration with the patient, carer and other relevant person or agency.

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