Social Worker
Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS TrustLondon- Permanent
Job summary
Our BEH London Prison situated in North London, has a vacancy for a Mental Health Care Co-ordinator. The core of this role is to support the delivery of care, which is currently in the form of New Models of Care.
The ideal candidate will need to ensure they are operating in line with the New Models of care by providing a high standard to individuals within our prison settings who are presenting with mental health problems.
The post holder will work with staff across healthcare and the wider prison establishment, providing specialist advice particularly to GPs in the assessment and treatment of patients on the prison residential wings.
The successful candidate will need to adapt to and embrace a recovery and enablement model to seamlessly realign prisoners with mental health problems alongside their local community- based mental health service upon release from prison.
The Care co-ordinator will be a qualified Social Worker with sound experience in Mental Health, knowledge and experience of forensic mental health service provision and offender care.
As well as the outstanding development opportunities within the Health in Justice Team, this is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Social Worker to join our Trust as our prison services are transforming in partnership with other healthcare providers.
Kindly click the link below to watch a summary about the Specialist services Team : Meet the Specialist Services team at BEH - Jonathan Stephen - YouTube
Main duties of the job
To work as a member of the Mental Health Service at HMP Pentonville
To work across the service functions including early days in custody, planned care, crisis care and release and transfer.
To be responsible for implementing sound clinical skills in mental health practice, including CPA care co-ordination, group work, risk assessment and management and crisis intervention.
Be responsible and accountable for the management of own caseload as directed by the Mental Health Hub Manager.
To provide skilled assessments of patients' emotional and psychological needs based upon the understanding, interpretation and integration of complex data given by the patient and obtained from other sources.
To provide psychosocial interventions for patients with moderate to complex mental health difficulties.
Jointly facilitate group work with multi-disciplinary colleagues (including education staff)
To complete clinical risk assessments at first and subsequent assessment interview and accurately record and report key risks
To develop care plans in collaboration with the patient, carer and other relevant person or agency.
About us
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
- We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
- Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
- Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
- Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
- We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
- Generous Annual Leave Allowance
- NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
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