Job overview
The Oxford Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) is a multi-disciplinary specialist mental health team located in central Oxford. The primary goals of the CRHTT is to identify, assess, and intervene; to return the individual to his/her prior level of functioning as quickly as possible; and to lessen any negative impact on future mental health.
We are a team who provide support for people aged 18 and older experiencing mental health crisis in central and north east oxford. Our team is dedicated to the delivery of personalised quality care and supports service users in acute mental health crisis and are an alternative to inpatient admission by providing intensive care and psychosocial interventions in the community.
We provide care by facilitating home visits, medical reviews, psychology input, telephone support and facilitate supportive discharge from hospital and managing the transition back to community-based services.
We work in close partnership with Acute inpatient teams and Community Mental Health teams. Our Team is multidisciplinary and is comprised of different professionals and roles which include Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Mental health nurses, Social workers, Occupational therapists and Senior Support workers.
The CRHTT is now expanding in the geographical area that it provides support to and we are thrilled to announce opportunities for Registered Nurse Associates to join our team.
Main duties of the job
We require a Band 4 Nursing Associate who can work independently, with the support of the team leaders and the wider crisis team clinicians and can bring their own professional expertise to a fast-paced team, and who are confident in managing risk in the least restrictive way. By its nature, crisis work requires professionals who have a broad range of skills including being skilled mental health assessors with a proven ability to signpost service users towards the most effective treatment pathways. The Nursing Associate role is an important development in nursing care provision and is pivotal in helping us deliver safe and effective care to our patients.
You will participate in a duty rota of early, late or long day shifts covering a 7 day a week service but we are committed to supporting staff to balance home and work life. We are a friendly and supportive team with strong leadership and direction. Our work is interesting and varied with plenty of opportunities to learn new skills both in the workplace and via our excellent Learning & Development team. The role is predominantly based in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire and may require some wider travel within the county.
We would welcome Nursing Associates who are keen to develop and further enhance their skills in a variety of areas and to help shape this exciting and developing service.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
1. Excellent opportunities for career progression
2. Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
3. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
4. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
5. Competitive pension scheme
6. Lease car scheme
7. Cycle to work scheme
8. Employee Assistance Programme
9. Mental Health First Aiders
10. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
11. Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Service Users access a crisis response in a variety of ways, ranging from referrals from their GP and attendance at an emergency department, to when they need care in the community and are seen by the police and our street triage teams. The aim of the Urgent Care Pathway is to bring together all those access points under one team..
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Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
12. NMC Nursing Associate Grade 4
Desirable criteria
13. Understanding requirements for NMC professional Revalidation
Experience
Essential criteria
14. Significant experience within a healthcare setting relevant to the role
Desirable criteria
15. Significant experience within a health/care setting relevant to the role
skills
Essential criteria
16. Job related, knowledge, Skills and aptitude
Desirable criteria
17. Effective written, verbal and nonverbal communication with patients, relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team
18. All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale
19. Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
20. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
21. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
22. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
23. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
24. Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
25. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing