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Bank Mental Health Practitioner - HMP Erlestoke • Devizes
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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1. Can you tell us about your background and experience in mental health care? What motivated you to work in this field, particularly within a prison setting? Can you tell us about your background and experience in mental health care? What motivated you to work in this field, particularly within a prison setting?

2. What do you understand about the unique mental health challenges faced by offenders, and how do you think your skills can address these? What do you understand about the unique mental health challenges faced by offenders, and how do you think your skills can address these?

3. Describe your experience with risk assessment and management. How do you approach identifying and mitigating risks in a mental health context? Describe your experience with risk assessment and management. How do you approach identifying and mitigating risks in a mental health context?

4. Can you detail your approach to providing specialist interventions for individuals with learning disabilities and mental health conditions? What specific techniques or strategies do you find most effective? Can you detail your approach to providing specialist interventions for individuals with learning disabilities and mental health conditions? What specific techniques or strategies do you find most effective?

5. How do you ensure that you maintain continuity of care while collaborating closely with community mental health teams? Can you provide an example of a time when you facilitated good communication and collaboration? How do you ensure that you maintain continuity of care while collaborating closely with community mental health teams? Can you provide an example of a time when you facilitated good communication and collaboration?

6. Give us an example of a time you worked as part of a multidisciplinary team. What was your role, and how did you contribute to the team’s success? Give us an example of a time you worked as part of a multidisciplinary team. What was your role, and how did you contribute to the team’s success?

7. How do you approach mentorship or support for junior staff members? Can you provide an example of how you’ve successfully supported a colleague in their development? How do you approach mentorship or support for junior staff members? Can you provide an example of how you’ve successfully supported a colleague in their development?

8. Effective communication is key in complex situations. Can you share a time when you had to communicate sensitive information to a patient or your colleagues? How did you handle it? Effective communication is key in complex situations. Can you share a time when you had to communicate sensitive information to a patient or your colleagues? How did you handle it?

9. Describe how you manage interactions with patients who may be challenging or resistant to treatment. What techniques do you use to build rapport and trust? Describe how you manage interactions with patients who may be challenging or resistant to treatment. What techniques do you use to build rapport and trust?

10. How do you engage in reflective practice, and why do you believe it is important in the context of mental health care? Can you share an example of how reflective practice has influenced your work? How do you engage in reflective practice, and why do you believe it is important in the context of mental health care? Can you share an example of how reflective practice has influenced your work?

11. Maintain comprehensive and timely electronic clinical records is part of your role. What systems or practices do you find helpful for ensuring accuracy and confidentiality in record keeping? Maintain comprehensive and timely electronic clinical records is part of your role. What systems or practices do you find helpful for ensuring accuracy and confidentiality in record keeping?

12. Can you describe your experience with data collection and analysis in relation to clinical practice? How do you use these statistics to inform your work? Can you describe your experience with data collection and analysis in relation to clinical practice? How do you use these statistics to inform your work?

13. What is your understanding of the health and safety policies relevant to working in a prison environment? How do you ensure compliance in your day-to-day practice? What is your understanding of the health and safety policies relevant to working in a prison environment? How do you ensure compliance in your day-to-day practice?

14. Discuss your experience with integrated clinical governance arrangements. How do you see your role in actively participating and contributing to these arrangements? Discuss your experience with integrated clinical governance arrangements. How do you see your role in actively participating and contributing to these arrangements?

15. What do you hope to achieve in your career as a Mental Health Practitioner, and how does working with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust align with those goals? What do you hope to achieve in your career as a Mental Health Practitioner, and how does working with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust align with those goals?

16. How do you plan to keep your skills and knowledge current in the rapidly evolving field of mental health care? How do you plan to keep your skills and knowledge current in the rapidly evolving field of mental health care?

17. Do you have any concerns about working within a prison environment? How do you plan to address these concerns? Do you have any concerns about working within a prison environment? How do you plan to address these concerns?

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Role: Bank Mental Health Practitioner - HMP Erlestoke in Devizes

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{"interviewQueryText":"What are some good interview questions in British English for the job description below?\n\n-------------------------------------------\n\nBank Mental Health Practitioner - HMP Erlestoke with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in Devizes\n\n Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career. Oxleas NHS trust were awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and currently have a portfolio of 19 prisons across the South of England. We are currently looking to expand our pool of bank workers by recruiting Mental Health Practitioners to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis. Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future. As a Mental Health Practitioner you will be providing specialist mental healthcare to offenders and working as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team, plus wider mental health services. You will be required to work in a psychologically minded way with offenders in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes. Our Mental Health Team provide specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level including; referral management, screening assessment, triage, evidence-based interventions, care planning and risk assessing, plus one-to-one and group-work facilitation. Our Mental Health Practitioners manage a mixed and challenging caseload and are required to perform robust assessment, screening and interventions to offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. You will contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assisting with early discharge through the implementation of high intensity interventions and complex case management arrangements. One of our key aims is to ensure continuity of care for an offender on ordinary location and reduce the length of stay, both in relation to prison inpatient services and external NHS/independent in-patient services. You will work closely with community mental health teams to ensure appropriate sharing of information, continuity of care and the Care Programme Approach for all offenders as necessary. About us 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 maintained at all times. Provide supervision, mentorship & leadership for junior staff. Take all necessary care in the working environment, adhering to relevant health and safety policies. Participate and positively contribute to the services integrated clinical governance arrangements Carry out administrative tasks as directed including research, audit, data, and activity statistics. (Full JD can be downloaded in supporting documents section) 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 photographicID 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 ). "}