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Health and Wellbeing Nurse Practitioner
| Posting date: | 13 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | £40,701.00 to £48,054.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £40701.00 - £48054.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 September 2024 |
| Location: | Bedfont Road, Feltham, Middlesex,, TW13 4ND |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9333-24-2054 |
Summary
The post holder to ensure duties are carried out in accordance with the service contract, the Offender Care Service Line, the YOI Service and the post-holders professional guidelines. Must be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work with young people and adults, with mental health difficulties and learning disability. Be responsible for initial assessment and developing, implementing and reviewing short term therapeutic interventions for referred young people where the work can be considered early intervention. The post-holder will carry out this process in consultation, as appropriate, with the young person and their family/carer, prison staff, fellow team members, other professionals, and the referrer. The post holder will participate in managing and administer all medication to patients in prison. They will operate as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing a role that contributes to both the generic and specialist work of the Health and Wellbeing Team. To promote and build the mental development and resilience in vulnerable young people in the YOI. To have specialist skills and experience in delivering therapeutic interventions including the skills and experience required to manage individuals at risk to themselves or others. To have the experience and skills required to interpret presentations of distress and crisis by young people/adults and provide appropriate treatment decisions and interventions. The post holder will be able to demonstrate the capacity to make confident and containing decisions. To keep senior staff informed at all times of all significant changes and occurrences that effect a young person/adults mental state and level of risk throughout their detention e.g. relationship breakup, significant anniversary, return from court with a long sentence, a bereavement etc. To work closely with YOI staff and other healthcare staff (primary care and substance misuse) to ingrain a positive understanding of mental health throughout the prison.