Team Leader - Mental Health RMN Offender Healthcare - Employment, career opportunity in UK

Job Title:  Team Leader - Mental Health RMN Offender Healthcare- HMP Oakwood
Job Type    Permanent
Location    Wolverhampton, WV10 7PU
Start Date    ASAP
Salary    £25,783-£34,530 pa pro rata+ env allowance
Ref No    121415-798-3749

Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

The Offender Health Directorate in Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust is at the forefront of developing and delivering high quality modern health care services for its client group. HMP Oakwood is a category C training prison in South Staffordshire, housing 1,605 adult male prisoners and was opened in April 2012. A full range of primary care, mental health and substance misuse services is provided.

An exciting opportunity is now available for a skilled and committed individual to take on the role of Team Leader (Band 6) within the mental health team at HMP Oakwood. We are looking for a nurse with experience of, or an interest in, working at a team leadership level within offender health. The post is central to the delivery of high quality, evidence based healthcare, which aims to give prisoners access to health services which are of the same range and quality as those provided by the NHS in the community.

This is a busy and demanding role working with a complex group of patients within the prison setting who require additional care and support for mental health issues. The post requires an individual who is an excellent communicator, confident and able to exercise clear management to ensure operational delivery. The post holder will be required to drive a continuous programme of service development within the team and the unit to ensure that current high standards of patient care are maintained, and will need to foster effective working relationships within and outside the primary care service, prison and wider Trust.

The post holder will-

* Continually develop their own clinical expertise in order to enhance the delivery and development of mental health services within the prison healthcare team.
* Provide clinical and operational management to the mental health staff group and the wider prison healthcare team.
* Be an effective communicator, providing a key link between the staff team and the healthcare senior management team, prison staff and other agencies.
* Have the capacity to manage competing pressures and priorities in a dynamic and busy working environment.

The post will include working a flexible rota across the full range of shifts. There will be no night work. There is a firm commitment to training and professional development for all staff to enable them to meet the high standards required and to rise to the challenges presented within a secure environment.

The successful candidate will be subject to enhanced Disclosure and Barring checks and prison security clearances.




Click to Apply Now