Community Mental Health Nurse

Job summary
We are looking for a highly motivated, experienced and innovative Band 6 Psychiatric Nurse to join our CMHT. Rivers CMHT is a close, lively, dynamic, nurturing, and supportive team with excellent peer support and regular supervision. You will manage a reasonable-sized caseload of service users, covering shared care and carrying out assessments. You will be involved in training, mentoring and supervising new and unregistered staff as well as providing excellent front-line clinical care. Rivers CMHT provides compassionate, kind and recovery-focused care to our patients, carers and their families. The successful candidates will have sound clinical skills, administration and IT skills including be able to type. You will also need excellent assessment and communication skills. There will be lots of shadowing/training opportunities to introduce you to the care coordination role and you will need to work alongside other agencies to promote holistic recovery-focused care. Rivers CMHT have regular weekly training slots which are psychologically informed so that our interventions are meaningful.

Based at the Bridge Centre, Basingstoke, some of the benefits of joining our team are:

free on-site parking, Flexible working will be considered with a strong emphasis on your work, life balance. Annual leave -27 days for new starters, plus bank holidays. Increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 year NHS service. Pro rata for part-time staff. Excellent Pension Scheme and Fantastic Staff Benefits.

Main duties of the job

• To act as care coordinator to an agreed caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness.
• To undertake ongoing assessment, treatment and evaluation for service users known to the Service.
• To deputize for the Team Leader as required.
• To work in a flexible hours service (this includes being on a staff rota providing services outside of office hours and at weekends and bank holidays.
• To coordinate the care of an agreed caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness.
• To formulate care plans in line with identified need.
• To provide therapeutic interventions in line with the agreed care plan and risk assessment.
• To assess risk, develop risk management plans, review, and adjust in line with the service user's needs.
• To work in collaboration with service users as experts in their own care, promoting the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation, which value and empower the service user.
• To use tools which promote user empowerment.
• To be proactive in ensuring service users receive the range of interventions they need in line with their care plan and whether the team provides those interventions or if signposting is required.
• To have a proactive approach to the role and needs of carers/families.
• To be innovative and responsive to individual needs, tailoring care accordingly.
• To be proactive in monitoring mental health needs and respond in a timely fashion if needs change.

About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered with Professional Body - RMN, Social Worker.
• Computer skills
• Must be able to type
• Mentorship course and evidence of CPD
• Full driving license and the ability to fulfil travel requirements of the post

Desirable

• Psychological therapies training CBT or ECS.
• Completion of in depth safeguarding.
• Knowledge of high cost placements.

Experience
Essential

• Working knowledge and application of the recovery model in collaboration with service users.
• Highly developed communication skills.
• Evidence of effective teamwork and leadership skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with people who have difficulty understanding.
• Good facilitation skills
• Evidence of effective interpersonal skills, active listening and building empathy.
• Ability to organise self and others to achieve tasks.
• Ability to motivate service users.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Theoretical knowledge of MHA legislation and the responsibilities that accompany it.
• Awareness of local and national mental health developments.
• Knowledge of the CPA process.
• Assessment skills.
• Provide clinical supervision.
• Experience of mentorship or equivalent in practice.
• Working knowledge of the application of Professional Code of Conduct.
• Ability to produce timely, quality reports, for funding applications etc.
• Knowledge and application of safeguarding children and adults policy.
• Working knowledge of relevant legislation.
• Ability to manage caseload demand and capacity.
• Management of personal safety.
• Confident in attending and chairing meetings and attending review panels.

Desirable

• Evidence of experience in the education of nurses and or multi professional groups.
• Care management experience.
• Evidence of report writing.
• Evidence of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi agency team.
• Experience of working in a Clozapine Clinic -nurses only.
• Experienced in giving depot injections -nurses only.
• Experience in or willing to train in physical observations - nurses only.

Additional Criteria
Essential

• Be a team player and and have a willingness to help others.
• Be caring, compassionate and nurturing.
• Confident, respectful, self reliant, aware of personal.
• boundaries, resourceful, imaginative, enthusiastic.
• Adaptable, affable.
• Able to contribute to team discussion and be respectful of others views.
• Honest and trustworthy.
• Aware of personal and professional boundaries.
• Respect for service users and their carers.
• An understanding of the importance of the service user.
• involvement in their own care and care plan.
• Commitment to personalized, recovery oriented care.
• Commitment to own continual professional development.
• Must meet Occupational health requirements.
• Flexible in deployment and work bases.

Desirable

• Willingness to complete studies as required to meet service delivery.

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