Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust rGNKMGB5
The psychiatrist will be responsible for conducting assessments, reviewing cases, providing expert advice on complex mental health issues, and coordinating with external services for care planning and transfers. The role also includes involvement in quality improvement initiatives and maintaining comprehensive patient records. While the psychiatrist will be primarily based at HMP Exeter, they will work in an integrated manner with a complete mental health service team, ensuring high-quality care for inmates and contributing to the overall mental health services provided by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.
Part of the Devon Cluster, HMP Exeter is a category B men's reception prison with a small resettlement function, holdingapproximately 300 prisoners. The post includes an interesting and varied range of clinical responsibilities for prisoners including severe and enduring mental illness, neurodiversity, personality disorders, learning disability and head injuries. The work entails close multidisciplinary working within the mental health team and alongside the substance misuse and primary care teams in the prison. You will liaise with prison staff and probation and provide input into MAPPA meetings and pre-release meetings with community and in patient teams and probation.
The post holder will be Section 12 registered and appointed to a part-time, 8 PA role, providing cover for HMP Exeter mental health services and supporting the full Oxleas service through Senior leadership on site. Following appointment there will be a meeting at no later than three months with the Clinical Director and Service Manager to review and revise the job plan and objectives of the post holder and agree the formal job plan. The job plan will be reviewed at least annually thereafter.
The overall split of the programmed activities is 6 to be devoted to direct clinical care and 2 to Supporting Professional Activities.
There are no out of hours on-call associated with this post.
To support the recruitment campaign, there is potential to employ a suitable candidate to this post with full time hours. To be discussed following interview.
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for support.Clinical work - HMP Exeter
Assessing and reviewing prisoners; and working in collaboration with MDT and prisoners to formulate management plans that is then incorporated into individualised care plans.
Liaising with services outside the prison to arrange CPAs, aftercare plans or transfers to hospital.
Providing expert advice and guidance for individuals with complex mental state and risk presentation.
Involved in quality improvement initiatives, to be agreed with multidisciplinary colleagues and the supervising Consultant
Maintaining high-quality records for patients within the service
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Workload at HMP Exeter
HMP Exeter receives approximately 190 receptions with 121 referrals to the mental health team per month. All referrals are triaged by the In-Reach Team. The in-reach teams hold a caseload and within this caseload, a number of patients would be subject to CPA management. New assessments requiring psychiatric input are slotted into the psychiatric clinic and then brought back to the team for discussion and planning their treatment and support. Whilst there is flexibility in allocation of individual responsibilities, the overarching model is one of integrated working across the mental health multidisciplinary teams.
There are no on-call commitments associated to this role.
This post-holder will have his or her base at HMP Exeter for the allocated PAs, where the mental health services comprise a full multidisciplinary team, including mental health practitioners, a Support Time and Recovery worker, Psychologists and Assistants, a Psychotherapist/Systemic practitioner all supported by an Admin Assistant and a Custodial Flow Co-ordinator, again all of whom work closely with all other healthcare colleagues. .
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