Mental Health Nurse Practitioner- Enhanced Support Service

The Enhanced Support Service team is commissioned by NHS England as part of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway and works alongside clinical & discipline staff to provide individualised assessment, care/management plans and risk assessment for a small caseload of often challenging patients.

This service aims to reduce the negative impact of violent and disruptive behaviour in prisons using a dedicated multi-disciplinary staff team that works in partnership across prison, healthcare, and Forensic Psychology services. This partnership underpins the design, implementation, and successful delivery of this service.

You will be  required to input into internal and external meetings regarding the clients that are part of the ESS service. The post-holder will be a resource to staff across healthcare and the wider prison providing advice and support to the care of these service users to ensure best outcomes.

The ESS will target the small minority of prisoners in the establishment who demonstrate severe and persistent violent and disruptive behaviour that has not responded to existing strategies and interventions. Staff will work intensively with prisoners in a collaborative manner to develop motivation to facilitate better settlement, improved psychological wellbeing and in the long term, access to sentence planning services for this population. The team will work in a psychologically informed manner and be supported by formulations based on understanding of the prisoners with whom they are working. The team will work indirectly with staff to increase understanding and appropriate management of these prisoners.

The post-holder will be required to input into internal and external meetings regarding the clients that are part of the ESS service

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.