Job overview

Are you looking for variety, flexibility, challenge and the chance to progress your career into providing modern mental health care in a prison setting?

Fantastic opportunities have arisen for a Band 6 Deputy Ward Manager within our Mental Health Healthcare Services here at HMP Birmingham.

 HMP Birmingham, which is an Adult Category B prison with a diverse range of nursing needs. HMP Birmingham currently holds a maximum of 980 prisoners, with a combination of both sentenced and remand Adult males. Serving Birmingham Crown and Magistrates courts.

This brings a great opportunity to embrace change and embed culture. The role will be an experience like no other, requiring a diverse mixed nursing skills background and attracts nurses from a range of professional specialist areas, such as Assertive Outreach and Forensic Services.  

Our service has defined structured Mental Health Services, that support a stepped care model:

·         a nursing team that supports the assessment of prisoners within a 24hr healthcare environment, with a 15 dedicated cells.

·         a Community Mental Health Team that offers Early help & signposting, along with primary and secondary mental health care models of engagement similar to those experienced and replicated within the wider community.

We want to employ a nurse lwho has a real understanding for the needs of the prisoner/offender population who can also bring innovation and change to our services. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for:

·       The facilitation, promotion and supervision of education, clinical practices and audit.

·       The management of the clinical area in the absence of the Clinical Team Manager.

·       Overseeing the assessment planning implementation and evaluation of nursing care within agreed parameters, and have a working knowledge of local, national policies and legislation which govern current service provision.

·       Identifying and contributing to others training needs.

·       Ensuring the promotion of issues of equality diversity and rights in accordance with good practice and legislation.

·       Ensuring effective communication pathways exist.

·       Undertake assessment on behalf of the Clinical Team Manager as part of the regional rota for 24hr healthcare bed management and determine admission where necessary.

·       Develop effective packages of care using evidence base practice to support prisons with mental health issues, delivering interventions that support recovery and tools that evaluate patient progress.

·       To participate in education and training linked to mental health and physical health pathways.

Working for our organisation

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.  Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year.  We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community.  If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.