Job summary
- Main area
- Community mental health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-NMR334-0724
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Glanrhyd hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £35,922 - £43,257 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Nurse
Band 6
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
This is an exciting time to join our integrated team of Social Workers, District Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Community Mental Health Nurses , speech and language therapists, dieticians, experienced technicians and dementia support workers. . We are seeking to appoint an energetic, enthusiastic full time permanent community mental health nurse to this team. .
The team works with adults from the age of 18, into older age, affected by frailty and/or complex long term health conditions and/or disabilities; often compounded by their mental health or emotional well-being needs. The postholder will need to work closely with all the multi-professionals as well as GPs and Primary care and cluster staff, and the Third sector, to support individuals to have good quality emotional and mental health well-being. They will be a key practitioner within the team developing and providing an effective targeted holistic team around the person.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will:
To provide initial screening assessment to identify Mental Health needs, provide short term early interventions and signpost as and when necessary to, third sector, self-help Tier 0 community services or appropriate mental health services as required.
The post holder will liaise closely with Local Primary Mental Health Support Services (LPMHSS), Secondary Care Mental Health Services, Older Persons Mental Health Services (OPMHS), Crisis services if required and Third Sector Organisations to ensure cohesive and purposeful pathways of care.
The post holder is identified as a skilled and creative mental health practitioner with knowledge of working with and supporting people living within their own communities and will be an integral member of the Integrated Community Network Teams providing a service for age 18 years up.
Provide short term mental health support to promote/empower independence, working closely with the Network MDT,. This will generally involve working with adults to promote positive mental wellbeing and to assess the need and suitability for mental health services covered by the Mental Health Measure (MHM).
Complete risk assessments/management plans and escalate any concerns as appropriate.
Manage a defined caseload,.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are seeking a mental health practitioner looking to work with adults over 18 in an integrated network.
Please see attached document where you will receive full information about the job.
Person specification
English
Essential criteria
- Possess a range of clinical experience and specialist knowledge within the relevant area of practice e.g. adult mental health, older persons care, and rehabilitation/recovery. Experience of multiagency and multi-disciplinary working
- English
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and of Health and Social Care legislation in Wales.
English
Essential criteria
- Clinical assessment and formulation skills.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of multi-agency working.
English
Essential criteria
- Care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment. Upholding and supporting individuals voice and choice.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to use a computer
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Chris Lloyd
- Job title
- East Integrated Network service manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 642448
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