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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to join the multi professional staff team at the Urgent Care & Assessment Team (UCAT) based at St Mary's Hospital, Kettering.

The Urgent Care and Assessment Team (UCAT) forms part of the extended Community Mental Health Service and responds to the mental health need within our locality. The applicant should be available to work shifts, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and willing to participate as a member of the multi professional team providing Intensive Home Treatment to service users in the acute phase of a mental illness.

We are seeking a proactive and enthusiastic individual highly skilled in assessment, risk assessment and management, effective decision making and the ability to work under pressure. The successful candidate will be required to contribute to the teams commitment to a recovery based approach promoting social inclusion and collaborative working. In addition to these requirements a passion for forming good working relationships with colleagues as well as other agencies is necessary.  The role includes shift coordination, delegation of duties, prioritising and  problem solving, mentoring junior staff, supporting the wider MDT and ensuring we maintain high standards of care delivery.

Main duties of the job

Successful candidates will need to have genuine interest in working within a multi-disciplinary team providing assessments and treatment for the defined group of individuals and will have experience of working with people who have mental health difficulties.

This role attracts a £3000 welcome bonus payable in your first year

Excellent learning and development opportunities to support you and develop your Nursing Career.

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is committed to training and developing its staff not only with clinical skills but also in leadership and managerial skills.

Flexible working patterns for both part time and full-time roles

You’ll also have access to our generous pension scheme and health service discounts, as well as generous annual leave plus bank holidays.

 NHFT welcomes applications from people, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status or pregnancy or maternity status.

We would encourage applications from groups who are currently underrepresented in the organisation. In particular, applications from disabled people (with both visible and non-visible disabilities), people from black and minority ethnic communities and lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered (LGBT) people.

Car owner/driver and current driving license essential or access to a car (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.