Are you a Registered Nursing Associate with training in Venepuncture and experience of physical health checks,with a motivation to work in mental health?
If so, our Band 4 Physical Healthcare Worker role in our Neighbourhood Mental Health Team may be the role for you!
Crawley ATS are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and skilled Nursing Associate with experience in venepuncture. It will be your responsibility to coordinate and undertake physical health assessments for our Client Group with support from band 6 staff and medical staff. This will involve visiting and carrying out assessments in the community for hard to engage patients (with another member of staff). This post is for 37.5 hours per week. Your role may also involve other tasks around supporting and building relationships with patients, depending on your experience.
Main duties of the job
We are a well-staffed multi-disciplinary team made up of Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, a Psychologist, Psychiatrists, Support Workers, Peer Support Worker and a Pharmacy Technician. We operate as a team within a creative and flexible approach and provide shared responsibility of risk management to support our service users who have a primary diagnosis of psychosis. We run groups for service users and has a biopsychosocial approach to support.
Your role will involve supporting Lead Practitioners with their complex caseload and physical health checks. Your role may, at times, also involve undertaking duty tasks including supporting patients in crisis, with medication related matters and practical support to service users by building up long term relationships with them.
About us
The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex.
We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, recent staff survey results told us that 82% recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Key staff survey results include:o 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at worko 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their teamo 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for the full details on the role. See below for further contact details;
Catherine Taylor
c.taylor25@nhs.net
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
* Educated to a minimum level 5 Foundation degree level specific to nursing associate practice
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
£26,530 to £29,114 a yearPer Annum, pro rata
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