Clinical Nurse Specialist: Sponsorship Available

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

As part of a national pilot, we are seeking an experienced registered mental health nurse for our Enhanced RECONNECT Service.

Enhanced RECONNECT (ER) is an exciting NHS England initiative that supports individuals with convictions who have been identified as high risk of harm to the public and have complex health needs which may impact on their risk of reoffending. Convictions may include violent and sexual offences and terrorist act offences. ER takes a partnership approach to ensure that individuals leaving prison have their needs met, in sustainable ways, to reduce their risk of reoffending, through providing coordinated intervention, support, and risk management across multiple agencies

The ER service is psychologically led and aims to support individuals to better understand and manage their risks, build upon their strengths, learn new skills, and identify and break down barriers to access existing community-based services, using a trauma informed, formulation driven approach with the person at the centre. This exciting role offers the successful candidate the opportunity to further embed and evolve the Enhanced RECONNECT service. The role provides scope to utilise and develop advanced clinical expertise, contribute to the ongoing development of the nursing pathway, work closely with community and non-NHS partners to deliver innovative, person-centred mental health care for service users that has historically faced significant inequalities in access to support.

Main duties of the job

You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, including psychologists, occupational therapists, nurses, social workers, speech therapists, substance use workers and peer support workers. You will be responsible for contributing to clinical risk assessments and formulations and developing and delivering individualised care to support individuals to engage with their communities and address their mental health needs. You will apply your clinical expertise to offer interventions to service users, for up to 12 months post release from prison. You will also work extensively with a range of partner organisations to ensure that individuals receive coordinated care.

The successful candidate will have extensive experience of working with adults with mental health presentations, psychological difficulties, neurodiversity and complex needs and risks across a variety of forensic mental health settings, including community, inpatient services, and prisons. It is expected that you will have experience of partnership working across health, social care, voluntary sector, employment, and criminal justice agencies. Relevant knowledge and experience of working with underserved groups would be an advantage. You will require good organisational, interpersonal and communication skills in addition to therapeutic expertise.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Current Professional Registration – NMC Nursing (RMHN)
  • Degree level minimum qualification
  • Evidence of specialist/enhanced learning and/or experience

Desirable

  • Evidence of recent specialist CPD related to forensic mental health, neurodiversity, risk assessment.

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive experience of working with vulnerable individuals as a qualified nurse
  • Experience of working with forensic populations
  • Ability to manage a caseload autonomously, providing highly specialist clinical nursing interventions
  • Experience of supervising staff

Desirable

  • Experience of working in community mental health services
  • Experience of partnership working with statutory and voluntary services
  • Experience of leadership
  • oExperience of research and development

Skills

Essential

  • A good working knowledge of risk management
  • Ability to deal with challenging situations
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to function as part of a team
  • Ability to lead others

Other

Essential

  • Access to a car and able to travel between various sites

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 1 November 2026

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