Mental Health Team Manager

To lead on the planning and implementation of policies and procedures within the service To ensure that all clinical activity and interventions and responsibilities relating to care & practice are undertaken in a timely and appropriate manner. To ensure that staff develop and maintain up to date knowledge regarding their role, experience and interventions. To ensure staff are supported to achieve a high standard of practice via regular supervision, support meetings and personal development reviews and have access to the necessary training. To actively promote offender healthcare through the provision of information, formal presentations, general networking and liaison with prison, statutory and other non-statutory agencies. Management responsibilities To ensure documentation is of a consistent high standard and meets the professional standards of practice. To ensure that staff maintain up to date electronic clinical records in accordance with professional, prison and trust standards. To ensure all record keeping related to own and others practice complies with professional, prison and trust standards. To lead on skill mix, recruitment and retention of staff in the Mental Health Team Promote a positive image of prison and offender healthcare services. To be responsible for and effectively manage delegated budgets as required. To ensure that staff adhere to Health and Safety guidelines and maintain safe environments and working practices. To act as an authorised signatory as required Leadership To actively participate in the Trusts Personal Development plan (PDP) Procedures. To ensure all staff have a Personal Development Plan. To lead the team effectively ensuring competence to practice for all staff. To deal appropriately with staff issues such as absence, capability, performance management. To ensure regular supervision of junior staff. To lead on all aspects of recruitment. To undertake specialist interventions as required. To manage a multidisciplinary group of staff and deal with issues appropriately making autonomous decisions. Deal with staff problems and complaints. Respond and robustly manage all offender complaints and serious incidents. Manage highly complex interface issues between prison services, criminal justice agencies and healthcare services. Interprets policies and changes in legislation in relation to practice. Clinical To be professionally accountable for the planning and delivery of mental health care in HMPYOI Isis, prioritising clinical needs to provide an effective and efficient service. To lead on and promote evidence based best practice in offender health services. To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of offenders with complex needs and challenging behaviour and provide complex case management approaches, joint-working arrangements, training, and advice to discipline officers to promote the safe and effective management of such cases. To assess the physical and mental health needs of a complex offender group, establish and evaluate appropriate treatment programmes. Create a therapeutic environment that is built upon recovery and robust risk assessment and management. To develop and ensure that safe and effective integrated care pathways are in place for all offenders. The post holder will act as a central point of access and link with local and national mental health services (both NHS and independent sector) to ensure consistent co-ordinated care. Research To engage actively in practice development, evaluation, quality improvement, audit, and research activities relevant to mental/social care and/or services areas. To develop and promote evidence-based practice. Communication To develop and maintain effective communication structures, facilitating two-way communication on professional and trust issues. To provide specialist professional advice to the Directorate, internal and external stakeholders as required. To work with statutory and voluntary agencies (prison & community) to ensure the provision of a seamless service such as prison services, health & social care services, education, police, probation, resettlement, offender management and advocacy projects to develop robust partnership and joint working arrangements. To establish robust communication networks with offenders, other health workers and agencies where there may be barriers to understanding. Resolve complex clinical matters between staff and offenders where persuasion, motivation and reassurance may be required. Communicate policy implementation in own area of practice and across other health departments. Professional Development To apply specialist skills and knowledge in order to establish professional competence. To demonstrate ongoing personal development through participation in internal and external development opportunities and recording learning outcomes. To ensure own supervision requirements are met through regular supervision with their line manager. To identify individual training needs with their line manager. To maintain a supervision structure for staff and monitor its effectiveness. To attend relevant mandatory and professional development meetings to ensure own knowledge and skills are updated and shared with colleagues. To identify staff training and development needs and facilitate access to relevant courses or projects. To identify and contribute to the training of health staff regarding the development of quality offender health services. To promote and facilitate student nurse placements in offender health services. Clinical Governance, Quality and Standards To work with the senior managers to develop and implement robust integrated clinical governance arrangements and quality agenda for the service. To ensure trust-wide standards and procedures are consistently applied in all aspects of practice. To advise on guidelines/legislation relating to prison healthcare. To participate in clinical governance projects as required IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ: All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team. You will need to provide: Proof of right to work documentation Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID Proof of address documentation Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code. Address History: 5 years address history will be needed. Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously. Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited. In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).

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