An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 RMN Nurse to join Evesham Neighbourhood Community Mental Health Teams (NMHT).

Contributing to the delivery of our services, facilitating group interventions and working with individuals on improving the functioning in their lives, as a key member of our MDT across the Primary Care Networks ensuring our patients receive expert care focused on recovery.

The post is for 37.5 hours a week Monday to Friday

Main duties of the job

• Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on a day-to-day basis.
• Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.
• Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to patients.
• Be responsible for assessing care needs, developing, implementing, commissioning and evaluating programmes of care under the supervision of a nominated more senior professional.
• Under the supervision of nominated senior professional, managing and carrying continuing responsibility for a defined caseload of patients with complex mental health needs, taking on the role of care co-ordinating as the CPA care co-ordinator.

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

Under the direction of a nominated supervising professional:

• Provide specific Psychiatric Nursing interventions to allocated patients/clients and their relatives who are referred to the service.
• Work in conjunction with all primary care services and partnership agencies to foster close multidisciplinary and multi-agency working.
• Participate in regular supervision with nominated supervisor and evaluate caseload.
• Assess care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programs of care utilising the Recovery model.

Clinical

• Function as an active member of the Community Assessment Recovery Service.
• Ensure high standards patient care, ensuring patients individuality and dignity is maintained at all times, while promoting independence.
• Maintain up to date, accurate records within Trust and NMC guidelines and keep these confidential and in a safe place.
• Responsible for ensuring risk assessments are carried out in conjunction with other agencies.
• Ensure that the philosophy of Person-Centred Care is upheld at all times.
• Fully implement the agreed care plan to include commissioning where required, with the support of more senior health and social care staff and ensure that it is regularly reviewed and updated.
• Ensure that the requirements of the Mental Health Act 1983 are met and that patients rights under the Act are upheld.
• Participate in all aspects of discharge and aftercare including co-operation with Section 117 meetings and the Care Programme Approach and Care Co-ordination.
• Ensure effective liaison with all agencies to ensure seamless service provision.
• Ensure that information regarding patients needs and progress are communicated promptly and accurately to other team members involved in their care, having due regard for confidentiality.
• Facilitate open and harmonious communications amongst staff within the team and with other departments with the aim of promoting multidisciplinary approaches to care.
• Participate with direct support of a senior colleague in undertaking the role of Professional Cover.
• Ensure that each patient in his/her care receives a comprehensive multidisciplinary CPA assessment in line with the CPA process and is the subject of a regular updated care plan which is responsive to changing needs. Where practicable, this care plan must be formulated in conjunction with the patient.

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

Person Specification

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

• ENB 997/8 or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• 1 years post registration experience on an acute psychiatric ward or Post registration experience working with Adults in Mental Health

Desirable

• Experience of Solution Focussed Approach and / or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Experience of Counselling skills (Bereavement and Loss).

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Ability to challenge poor behaviour.
• Role modelling good behaviour.
• A positive attitude and able to act on feedback.
• Ability to praise and be supportive to others.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Basic IT Skills.
• Ability to work alone.
• Ability to recognise own limits

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of caring for people in the community
• Knowledge of Person-Centred Care
• Knowledge of Mental Health Act 1983 and amendments
• Mental Capacity Act
• Knowledge of current mental health issues
• Knowledge of risk assessment.
• Sound clinical knowledge.
• Principle of care coordination

Desirable

• Person Centred Care specific to Adults in Mental Health
• Multidisciplinary team working.
• Work with other agencies.
• Aware of the Worcestershire Care Coordination model

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Able to meet the travel requirements of the role

Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Waterside Day Hospital

Waterside

Evesham

WR11 1JT

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