Clinical Lead - Prison Mental Health Team
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Millom, LA18 4NA
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
2 September 2026
2 days left
Job description
We're looking for an experienced mental health nurse/mental health practitioner to join the mental health team at HMP Haverigg working with sex offend...
You will have experience providing compassionate mental health care and have an understanding of the criminal justice system. You will make on going assessment of need reflecting individual circumstances and provide relevant interventions and input to discharge planning. You will be required to have strong coordination and planning skills, with the ability to make decisions based on comprehensive health and risk assessments.
You should be innovative, flexible and able to engage with patients with complex needs. You will be committed to a person-centred approach and have the ability to prioritise.
Tees, Esk, and Wear Valley NHS trust are the providers of mental health services in HMP Haverigg. Working alongside partners Rethink, and Outspoken, to deliver trauma informed, compassion focussed services. We have a strong emphasis, on service user involvement, and co-production. We offer regular, quality, clinical, and managerial supervision, and career progression.
HMP Haverigg have received excellent CQC , and Prison quality net work reviews in the last 12 months.
Qualification
Essential
- RNMH,/RNLD or registered practitioner, current professional registration with NMC or relevant professional body.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education (within agreed timescales)
- Clinical Supervisor (within agreed timescales).
- Recognised sign-off mentor or must be achieved within agreed timescale.
- Qualified practitioner in e.g. CBT, DBT, PSI, dual diagnosis etc. (within agreed timescale).
- 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.
- Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
- Non-medical Prescriber (within agreed timescale.)
Desirable
- Leadership or management qualification
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community setting.
- Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams
- Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers.
- A good understanding of the Offender Health pathway
- Quality improvement activities
Desirable
- Leadership or management experience
- Experience in a secure environment
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
- Experience of mentoring students on practice placement.
Skills
Essential
- Provide leadership and monitor, co-ordinate and prioritise the activities of a team
- Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
- Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake care co-ordinator responsibilities
- Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice
- Write reports
- Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings
- Use approved breakaway techniques
Desirable
- Competency in venepuncture and ECGs
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
19 August 2026
Last checked
21 August 2026
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