Overview
Croydon Community Mental Health Service (CMHT) has undergone service transformation to enhance the quality of service delivery, improve experiences for service users, maintain staff morale and ensure services meet the NHS Long Term Plan. The Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) is a generic team integrated with Croydon Social Care, working with all adults experiencing severe and enduring mental illness. The teams are locality-based and operate with all individuals in a locality who have mental health needs that require support from secondary care. Croydon CMHT has 3 localities: NORTH, CENTRAL and SOUTH. Our Locality Teams are highly experienced, supportive and multidisciplinary. This advert is for vacancies in the NORTH LOCALITY TEAM.
In keeping with their obligations under the Coronavirus Regulations 2021 in relation to Care Home visits, the successful candidate will be required to provide evidence of full vaccination status against Covid-19. The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer and welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights.
We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
* Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
* Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
* We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity
Responsibilities
The post holder will work as Care Coordinator / Community Mental Health Nurse for a caseload of service users in the local community who have complex mental health difficulties, and work with their carers where applicable. The post holder will be expected to have excellent self-management skills, and work collaboratively within the team. The post holder must be able to formulate flexible, robust and holistic care plans with service users and/or carers, to work well under pressure, be experienced in dynamic risk assessment, and to have excellent communication skills.
About the Trust
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond. We are committed to providing high quality specialist care to our service users and are recognised for the care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as “good”.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to positively impact patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will have the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey, supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.
Diversity and Lived Experience
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them an asset to the Trust. We are Stonewall Diversity Champion and promote equality of opportunity.
Our Values and Flexible Working
Our values are caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listening and delivering on promises. We are happy to talk flexible working. When you join us, you will be part of something special.
Benefits
* Comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package dependent on role and length of service
* Work-life balance, flexible working and options such as part-time working and job sharing
* Career development with opportunities to progress, mentoring, coaching, leadership programmes and other development pathways
* Car lease options
* Accommodation support at selected sites
* NHS discounts on a range of brands
For this role, career pathways to Senior Clinical Practitioner or Clinical Team Leader are available, with ongoing training and development in Leadership and MSC programmes.
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