Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you an excellent, innovative nurse, passionate about providing high-quality service interventions, for people with complex mental health needs? We now have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated community mental health nurse, to join our Herefordshire Assertive Outreach Team (AOT), who support service users who have found it difficult to engage with community mental health teams. Serving people who experience psychosis and have serious complex and enduring mental health problems, who may have co-morbid substance use issues, are difficult to engage, and have found it hard to work with mainstream mental health services, often rejecting support while their needs remain very prominent.

As the valued member of our community multi-disciplinary team, you must have a positive attitude towards innovation and change and a flexible approach. You need excellent interpersonal, team working and communication skills. You will value continuing service improvement and evaluation and the participation in meaningful outcomes with our service user population.

Main duties of the job

As a reflective practitioner, the post holder will be able to engage in and contribute to peer reflective sessions and provide a range of mental health assessments for people who are experiencing common, acute, severe, and enduring mental health conditions, including risk assessment, providing evidence-based intervention. Utilising personal autonomy and working with the MDT.

Working with a range of agencies internally and externally, signposting to appropriate sources of support providing short to long-term interventions to support recovery. Provide guidance and support to the carers of patients accessing the services.

In our team, we pride ourselves in providing outstanding care to our patients. We will provide you with resources to develop and progress a long-term career including flexibility, continual professional development a wide range of wellbeing and support.

To be able to travel throughout the county as required. To supervise junior staff and students. The ability to be flexible and organised is essential.

This is a fulltime post 37.5 hours per week, over 5 days, Monday - Friday

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. Its why we were named Large Apprenticeship Employer of the Year award at the 2022 Worcestershire Apprenticeship Awards. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer

27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service

Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours

Flexible and agile working opportunities

Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support

Wide range of staff networks such as LGBT+ and ENRICH (Equality Network for Race Inclusion and Cultural Heritage)

Health service discounts and online benefits including excellent cycle to work and car salary sacrifice schemes

Health and wellbeing opportunities

If you would like to know more, please visit our careers website.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To provide assessment and treatment of working aged adults with Psychosis and complex needs
• To work with internal and external agencies
• To travel around Herefordshire providing support in a variety of clinical settings, as well as in patients own homes
• To manage a caseload and the associated paperwork requirements
• To attend meetings required by the service
• To work according to Trust values, policies and procedures
• To provide support to carers
• To supervise junior staff and students
• To undertake extra duties as required, depending on the needs of the service
• To have a working knowledge of the mental health act and community treatment orders

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person Specification

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Will be required to complete breakaway / de-escalation training
• Able to meet the travel requirements of the post and hold a full drivers licence with insurance for business purposes

Experience

Essential

• Experience of care work within an appropriate community mental health setting.
• Case load management
• Management of complex mental health needs in a community setting
• Experience of counselling skills in a relevant area

Desirable

• Working in a primary care or secondary care setting
• Working in collaboration with VCSE service
• Experience of Care Coordination
• Training/developing staff and / or patients
• Experience of delivering evidence based psychosocial interventions

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of principles of assessment and treatment of people with mental health problems
• Knowledge of principles of risk assessment and management
• Knowledge of Mental Health Act 1983 and Mental Capacity Act 2006 and other relevant legislation

Qualifications

Essential

• RMN
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer

Desirable

• Teaching/training qualification

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
• Ability to praise and be supportive to others
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
• Mental health assessment skills
• Care planning
• Delivery of evidence based interventions in mental health

Desirable

• Skilled in the provision of clinical supervision to both peers and junior members of staff

Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Assertive Outreach Team

27a St Owens Street

Hereford

HR1 2JB

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C9798-0552