In-Reach Mental Health Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This role involves providing specialist mental healthcare to offenders within HMP Wandsworth as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team. Responsibilities include referral management, screening, assessment, triage, and evidence-based interventions. The practitioner will facilitate one-to-one and group work, conduct assertive outreach, and manage a challenging caseload. The aim is to contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assist with early discharge.
Key responsibilities
- Provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders and work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team.
- Deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level, including referral management, screening, assessment, triage, and evidence-based intervention.
- Facilitate one-to-one and group-work, and conduct assertive outreach interventions.
- Manage a mixed and challenging caseload.
- Contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assist with early discharge through high intensity specialist interventions and complex case management.
- Perform robust assessment, screening, and interventions for offenders with a learning disability.
Essential criteria
- RMN
- Minimum 2 yrs experience
- Registration in date
- Good IT Skills and diligence
- Forensic Experience
Desirable criteria
- Teaching and Assessing in the workplace or equivalent
- MSc, working towards, or equivalent
- Further education
- communication skills / interpersonal skills
- Prison Experience
- Systm One Experience
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £47,951 – £56,863 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 9d
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Job summary
To provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders and to work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider mental health services in HMP Wandsworth
To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level. to include:
- Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidence based intervention
- One-to-one and group-work facilitation
- assertive outreach interventions
- managing a mixed and challenging caseload
_Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post_
Main duties of the job
- To contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assisting with early discharge, through the implementation of high intensity specialist interventions and complex case management arrangements resulting in continuity of care for an offender on ordinary location, reduced length of stay (both in relation to prison inpatient services and external NHS or independent in-patient services).
- To perform robust assessment, screening, and interventions to offenders with a learning disability
- Ensure that all waiting time, assessment and interventions are delivered in a timely manner, and positively contribute to the achievement of the services. performance targets.
- Ensure integrated and collaborative working with other specialist services, including c
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