Previous applicants need not apply

We are looking for a community mental health nurse practitioner with exceptional organisational and communication skills. Experience and or interest in facilitating groups/workshops.

We are looking for a motivated, skilled, and experienced Community Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to join our Bexley Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub.

The Community Mental Health Transformation Programme has led to the development of the Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub in Bexley and this will be delivered by a combination of clinical staff from Oxleas, Bexley Mind, Primary Care, Bexley LA, voluntary, third party and local partners. This will enable people to receive support with managing their mental health alongside help with issues including employment, relationships, housing, finances and engaging in the local community and accessing community asserts in Bexley. The Hub receives referrals from various sources but principally primary care sources including GPs and the London Borough of Bexley. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved with the development of the service and requires a commitment to integrated working.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for undertaking comprehensive telephone and face-to-face assessments of referred patients to identify their needs they will have to hold a caseload for a short brief-intervention period.

The post holders will be workingin a supportive and diverseteam, where there areopportunities for personal development.

The post holder will be a mental health professionals registered with NMC with significant post qualification experience, working either in a single point of access, primary care, or community setting.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Community Mental Health Nurse Practitioner will act as an effective member of the integrated Bexley Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub, with responsibility for face-to-face and telephone assessments of incoming referrals from various sources within the borough of Bexley but principally referrals from GP practices and social services teams in the borough.

Job Purpose

To enable Bexleycare to deliver a consistent and responsive Community Mental Health Wellbeing Hub in conjunction with the ethos of the NHS Long Term Plan Community Mental Health Transformation Programme. To develop, appraise and improve the community mental health hub, working closely with all stakeholders from Bexleycare and other stakeholders to provide a robust service to people who are experiencing psychiatric and or psychosocial mental health problems in Bexley.

Overview of the Post

The post holder will deliver and or advise on the delivery of high-quality safe nursing care, ensuring consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence which comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of professional conduct. Bexley Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub is a primary care level service in the Borough of Bexley. The post sits within a multi-disciplinary framework and provides assessments (telephone, virtual and face to face) and brief interventions. The team liaises and gets referrals from several sources including GPs, Bexley Local Authority and MIND.

As a Community Mental Health Hub Nurse you will promote and develop clinical leadership and clinical practice and be a positive role model to junior members of the team through the practice of evidence-based care. You will be expected to support professional development through clinical appraisal and supervision and contribute to the ongoing educational programme for staff, fostering a positive learning environment. As a senior nurse working within the Hub you are required to encourage and foster collaborative and cross organisational working.

Key Task and Responsibilities

This job description is an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities expected of a Band 6 Nurse. The post holder will be required to undertake additional duties appropriate to the clinical area/speciality in which they work.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• Two years post qualifying
• Experience in working with older adults
• Experience in running groups or workshops

Desirable

• Experience in working with complex mental health presentations

Essential

Essential

• Presenting cases to the MDT and other primary statutory and voluntary organisations

Essential

Essential

• Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding adults and children

Desirable

• Minimal experience but able to learn

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bexley Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub, Bexleyheath / Erith Centre

Devonshire Road and Erith Centre

Bexleyheath and Erith

DA6 8DS

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