In-Reach Mental Health Practitioner | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	24 September 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£46,419 - £55,046 pa inc
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	25 October 2025
Location:	Wandsworth, SW18 3HX
Company:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7505328/277-7229196-WANDS-A

Summary

To provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders and to work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider mental health services in HMP Wandsworth

To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level. to include:
• Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidence based interventions
• One-to-one and group-work facilitation
• Assertive outreach interventions
• Managing a mixed and challenging caseload.

To contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assisting with early discharge, through the implementation of high intensity specialist interventions and complex case management arrangements resulting in continuity of care for an offender on ordinary location, reduced length of stay (both in relation to prison inpatient services and external NHS or independent in-patient services).
• To perform robust assessment, screening, and interventions to offenders with a learning disability.
• Ensure that all waiting time, assessment and interventions are delivered in atimely manner, and positively contribute to the achievement of the services. Performance targets.
• Ensure integrated and collaborative working with other specialist services, including continuity of care and through the gate arrangements and liaison.
• Work closely with community mental health teams (CMHTs) to ensure appropriate sharing of information, continuity of care and the Care Programme Approach (CPA) for all offenders as necessary
• To provide comprehensive and timely reports and mental health expertise to multi agency public protection panels (MAPPA), police, probation services, solicitors and court liaison teams as directed.
• Provide supervision to junior staff and to receive supervision as directed (line management and clinical).
• To work in a psychologically minded way with offenders in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.
• Close working relationships with all prison and Serco staff, to include participation in sentence planning, resettlement, safer custody, and ACCT processes.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
• To communicate effectively on a range of issues that are often complex in their nature and in complex situations.
• Participate in the annual appraisal reviews and demonstrate reflective practice through the Knowledge and Skills Framework
• To maintain comprehensive and timely electronic clinical records ensuring confidentiality is always maintained.
• Provide supervision, mentorship & leadership for junior staff.
• Be mindful of the unpredictable nature of the working environment, the job requirement and offender groups.
• Take all necessary care in the working environment, adhering to relevant health and safety policies.



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).



This advert closes on Sunday 12 Oct 2025

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