Specialist Community Mental Health Nurse
Are you passionate about supporting working aged adults to have good mental health? Are you a recovery focused and creative mental health nurse who wants to work in a supportive and well established multi-disciplinary team? An opportunity has become available to work in the Holderness Mental Health Team.
As an employer Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are dedicated to being a best practice example of inter-professional working in mental health. As part of this we encourage and provide opportunities for continued professional development and regular supervision to help develop nursing confidence, skills and career.
This post will be based in Hedon with the expectation to work across the Holderness area due to service demand requirements. Due to the geographical nature of the post it is essential that you can drive and have access to a car.
Main duties of the job
As a key worker / care coordinator you will provide support and interventions to promote mental health recovery. Establishing therapeutic relationships with service users and their family / carers.
* Develop and deliver recovery focused care in collaboration with service users and their family /carers.
* Provide information and psycho education surrounding mental health conditions and medication.
* Uphold legal frameworks which underpin service delivery.
* Assess risks, the management of risks and effectiveness of interventions.
* Deliver recovery based and risk management interventions with complex clients.
* Signposting / referral to external services when required.
* Develop good working relationships with neighbouring teams to enable effective co-working and responsive transfers of care if necessary.
* Act as duty officer on a rota basis
* Administration and monitoring of medication.
* Supervise other members of the team and students.
* Leadership to support the team day to day and in meetings.
About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
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Job responsibilities
For further information for this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifiactions & Knowledge
* Registered Mental Health Nurse on NMC live register
* Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students
* Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. The Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act.
* IT skills for learning systems required for role e.g. electronic patient record, clinical stock ordering systems, incident reporting systems.
Experience
* Previous community based experience or band 6 experience transferable to a community setting
* Experience of leading on complex care delivery
* Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
* Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice
* Ability to effectively Chair meetings
Skills and Competencies
* Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring
* Ability to effectively transport self between multiple addresses/venues on a daily basis including transporting, clients, equipment & clinical stock required for treatment.
* Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change
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.
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