242 Mental Health Nurse Jobs in United Kingdom

Starrycare is seeking an experienced and dedicated Senior Mental Health Nurse (Band 6) to join the Integrated Mental Health Team within prison settings across Staffordshire and Worcestershire.

The post holder will manage their own caseload, delivering specialist mental health assessments, care planning, and evidence-based interventions to service users within the prison environment. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary and multi-agency team, supporting primary care, wellbeing, and secondary mental health services while promoting recovery-focused and person-centred care.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a complex caseload of service users with mental health needs
  

• Conduct mental health assessments and develop care plans within the Care Programme Approach (CPA) framework
  

• Deliver specialist interventions including counselling, CBT-informed approaches, and motivational interviewing
  

• Liaise with prison healthcare, substance misuse teams, probation, police, and external agencies
  

• Support and supervise junior staff where appropriate
  

• Maintain accurate electronic clinical records in line with NMC standards
  

• Work within the Mental Health Act and safeguarding frameworks
  

• Promote recovery, harm reduction, and service user involvement
  

• Contribute to audit, service development, and clinical governance
  

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