We are looking for Mental Health Practitioners to join our responsive Community Crisis Team, whether you are a registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist -- we want to hear from you! We have options available for both experienced staff in band 6 roles and for those who need to build their knowledge and experience in band 5 roles.

Working in Portsmouth offers a diverse inner-city client base where we provide intensive treatment and interventions to individuals who present with a range of mental health needs as a 24 hour service. We need you to travel across the city to visit our patients, either by bike or bus, car or train! We also have pool cars which can be used by people with full UK driving licences and if you want to use your own, you can claim mileage!

Our aim is to prevent hospital admission and to be the access point for urgent mental health care to adults across Portsmouth. We work alongside our neighbouring teams to ensure patients who are in crisis are offered practical alternatives to hospital admission by the right professional at the right time.

We're passionate about providing you with the opportunity to develop and have a wide range of therapies and treatments to train in to continue your learning. We want the best for you so you can deliver the best quality care to our patients.

Although this is a community based role, our offices are based at The orchards on the St James site.

Main duties of the job

Assess patient/client, plan develop/implement/evaluate programmes of care and carry out nursing procedures to achieve best health outcome for patient/client/family/health needs as well as actively promote health and wellbeing

Evaluate clinical outcome and report variance to clinical pathway, protocols, or best practice guidelines

Contribute to effective discharge planning and/or referral process to health care provider and support agencies to meet identified health needs

Apply diagnostic reasoning and professional judgement to nursing practice

Manage daily care of patient/client and when required manage care in the absence of senior colleagues

Foster inquiry and critical thinking amongst colleagues to advance nursing practice and patient/client care to ensure the provision of positive patient/client outcomes and person-centred care

Accurately document assessments of patients/client's health status, diagnosis and response to nursing and other interventions and treatments

Effectively manage clinical care and area through the implementation of clearly defined policies and procedures

Educate and provide information to patients/clients/family to improve knowledge of illness, self-management prevention of complications and promotion of recovery

Role model safe nursing practice and report poor practice when observed

Practice in accordance with legal, ethical, culturally safe, and professional standards including the Code of practice

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• *Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• BSc Nursing or RN currently registered with NMC
• Post registration, specialist training relevant to speciality
• Teaching Qualification, e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent
• Practice assessor/supervisor

Experience

Essential

• Experienced in assessing and developing patient care plans
• Experienced in developing and delivering care and clinical interventions to patients
• Experience of MDT working
• Experience of teaching, training and supervision/assessing junior staff and students
• Evidence of recent CPD
• Evidence of developing policy, guidelines contributing to management of resources

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.

UK Registration

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

Employer details

Employer name

Solent NHS Trust

Address

St James’ Hospital

Locksway Road

Portsmouth

Hampshire

PO4 8LD

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

449-Team2-1206