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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
354-AN-20672
Employer
Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Drayton House
Town
Chichester
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/07/2024 23:59

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Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust logo

Community Psychiatric Nurse - Incentives Apply

NHS AfC: Band 6

Welcome from our Chief Executive

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

Community Mental Health Nurse – Band 6

We have a great opportunity for a full-time band 6 nurse to work in the Intensive Support Element of the Dementia & Older People’s Mental Health Team based in Chichester. This post will sit within our multidisciplinary community older person's team and will work alongside our lead practitioners to deliver interventions to those people who have more complex or intensive needs. We aim to help people to remain safe and well at home thus enabling them to maintain the relationships that are important to them.

Our service is in the process of moving away from a more traditional model to adopt the follow me care principles advocated in NHS England’s new Community Mental Healthcare Strategy.  We are confident that this approach will help us to meet the growing demands for services whilst continuing to provide good outcomes for people.

The service operates Monday to Friday 9am-5pm. 

The successful candidate will join a friendly, highly-skilled and enthusiastic multi professional team. We will take a keen interest in helping you to develop the skills important to this role and the post-holder will be encouraged to develop special interests and expertise in line with service and team objectives.

The ability to travel across sites is essential.

Main duties of the job

The role of this post is to actively engage those requiring an increased level of support with the aim of keeping people within their home and maintaining their wellbeing and independence as far as possible. We are looking for individuals who are dynamic, compassionate, good communicator who are able to demonstrate a holistic and person-centred approach to their work.

You will also need to be able to work cohesively with other services both within our Trust, and with other partner agencies.  We follow a multi-disciplinary approach and within that context you will manage a caseload of older adults.

 

Working for our organisation

We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

All our clinicians are given opportunities to develop and grow as professionals in the organisation. We provide regular supervision, a supportive working environment and access to training opportunities to assist you to realise your potential.

This Trust offers the following;

  • Excellent starting salary
  • NHS Pension contributions
  • 27 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
  • Flexible Working patterns
  • Child care vouchers
  • Excellent training and development opportunities
  • NHS Discounts
  • Employee Assistance Programme

We'd love you to join our organisation that is rated good overall and outstanding for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

  • To contribute to the management of a team caseload of clients with complex needs, using CPA principles, evidence based/client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions, which will be delivered in the Dementia and Older Adults Mental Health Service.
  • To support/manage a team caseload and attend relevant MDT meetings
  • To regularly support and cover the duty rota
  • To provide specialist assessment and intervention as part of a multi-disciplinary approach, with specific responsibilities regarding the care pathway
  • To provide risk screening and assessment as well as risk management planning
  • To contribute to and facilitate evidence-based assessments and individual and group interventions
  • To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Service
  • To regularly share and supervise students on practice placement, and junior staff as appropriate

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name

Candice Douglas

Job title

Team Leader

Email address

[email protected]

Telephone number

01243 791833

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Maximum score 6

·       Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role

·       Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent

·       Evidence of continuous professional development

Knowledge/Experience

Essential criteria

Maximum score 20

·       Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group

·       Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group

·       Experience of supervising staff

·       Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems

·       Experience of working consultatively with professionals

·       Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments

·       Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies

·       Experience of working within the CPA process

·       Understanding of clinical governance

·       Previous experience of working in the community

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role
  • Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
  • Evidence of continuous professional development

Knowledge/Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
  • Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
  • Experience of supervising staff
  • Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
  • Experience of working consultatively with professionals
  • Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
  • Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies
  • Experience of working within the CPA process
  • Previous experience of working in the community

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Candice Douglas
Job title
Team Leader
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
03003040681
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