Mental Health Practitioner London, England
Job description
The post holder will be required to support the delivery of care currently in the form of New Models of Care, enabling the service to meet the London Wide service specification standards for Prison Healthcare.
The post holder will work to ensure they are offering a high standard and an integrated triage, assessment and intervention to individuals within our prison settings who are presenting with mental health problems in line with the New Models of Care.
The post-holder will be a resource to staff across healthcare and the wider prison establishment, providing specialist advice to healthcare colleagues, particularly GPs in the assessment, planning and treatment of patients on the prison residential wings.
An important focus of the work will involve embracing a recovery and enablement model which re-integrates prisoners with mental health problems with their local community-based mental health service upon release from prison. Additionally, the post holder will be required to facilitate the transfer of mentally ill prisoners to and from NHS hospitals.
