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Band 5 - Community Mental Health Nurse 

12 Months Fixed Term (Maternity Cover Post)

A rare and exciting opportunity has come available to join the acute outreach team.

This role promises a career of depth and impact across South Staffordshire. Join a community that values and celebrates your commitment to excellence. Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust offers not just a job but a journey where you can take pride in making a real difference for our communities. Your career will be a source of joy, accomplishment, and continuous growth as you shape the future of mental health care in this dynamic and supportive environment.

The Acute Outreach team offer a responsive service to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions, other delayed transfers of care and facilitate hospital discharges. To support the care of service users and carers out of hours, to ensure timely interventions to support early treatment and reduce the risk of carer breakdown. The Acute Outreach team ensure an integrated approach to the care of people with dementia and functional mental health conditions. They work in partnership with local health, social care, and voluntary organisations.

Main duties of the job

•        To contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the evidence-based interventions required, for a named service user/group under the guidance of a senior practitioner.
• To provide professional advice and support to other agencies and members of the multidisciplinary team.
• To be responsible for the appropriate clinical risk assessment of service users. Providing effective advice, guidance and decision-making process culminating in the coordination of any reviewed plan of care under the supervision of a senior practitioner.

Working for our organisation

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by:

• Supporting your career development and progression.
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car – fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccination every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.