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Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse - Swindon

Employer
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Location
Swindon
Salary
£32,306 to £39,027 a year per annum
Closing date
22 Aug 2022

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Profession
Nurse
Grade
Band 6
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
We are the Complex Intervention and Treatment Team (CITT)and we are currently looking for a passionate and enthusiastic professional to join our team.

This opportunity is available for all Registered Nurses.

The team is an established and dynamic team based at the Victoria Centre in Swindon. We provide specialist mental health services to people with organic illnesses and older adults with functional illnesses across Swindon.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Main duties of the job

Applicants will need to demonstrate experience and knowledge in the areas of the delivery of mental health care, with knowledge of the challenges faced in the community, with particular reference to the needs of Older People.

The successful applicant will provide care co-ordination for an allocated caseload of service users with mental health needs. This will include key tasks of undertaking high quality assessments, developing care plans, delivering and reviewing therapeutic interventions. You will act as a supervisor and role model to other staff and students. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate a high level of decision making skills and to work independently.

The Complex intervention Treatment Team is a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Nurses, Social workers, Mental health support workers, Speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and dieticians. We are an integrated health and social care team and have seconded social workers from Swindon Borough Council working within our team. We support each other with new learning and training both internal and external and have a duty system to assist the care of our clients if the care coordinator is unavailable. We have weekly clinical and governance team meeting and regular supervision.

About us

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

Job description Job responsibilities

To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessment for service users with severe and enduring mental health needs living in the community and in a range of settings.

This will include:

The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGVRecovery StarHistory, strengths and aspirationsMental stateImpact of culture and diversityFunctional needsThe needs of family and carerEvaluation of riskPhysical healthComplicating factorsThe interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.Social care needsSafeguarding and public protectionCapacity under the Mental Capacity Act

To be responsible for developing delivering and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidencebased practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.

To act as care coordinator for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.

To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads.

This might include:Individual or group therapeutic interventionPsychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches , family interventionsPsychosocial interventionsMotivational and coping enhancement strategies.Medication managementInterventions under the Mental Health Act,

To deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve the carers ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.

To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates.

In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of complex comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate.

To personally build and lead others to build, hope inspiring relationships with service users, which acknowledge the personal journey of each person, and focus on strengths and aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans.

To be responsible for maintaining own workload, as well as planning the workload of others, on a day to day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, utilising of electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.

To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, including working with others in the planning development and review of protection plans, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.

Coordinating and undertaking protective interventions which maybe required in the protection of others, as outlined in the protection plan, taking individual action where indicated.

Personally and leading others to collaboratively and sensitively work with individuals, with a range of mental health needs to develop skills to manage their own health, in accordance with their personal recovery plan, by actively promoting and using approaches which are affirming, build on strengths, identify past positive experiences and success, and use small steps to move towards the persons goal.

Undertake active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required.

To maintain the single health and social care record, ensuring both paper and electronic records are kept up to date in accordance with professional and organisational standards.

Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.

To participate in management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.

To provide mentoring/training for others in relevant practice areas, according to professional requirements, taking a collaborative approach to practice development and evidence-based care. Specifically this means providing a safe and effective learning environment for the mentoring and supervising of students, participating in their learning objectives and assessments.

Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for contributing to the development of others, by making use of and providing, effective feedback, supervision, coaching and appraisal.

Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required.

Develop own knowledge and practice, and contribute to the development of others, making use of available feedback, supervision and appraisal to identify appropriate areas of development for this work role, taking responsibility for accessing identified learning and training opportunities.

Lead, maintain and participate in practices, which enable effective team working.

To participate in on call rotas as required.

To participate in local arrangements in order to ensure consistent care to service users across the local geography.

Person Specification Essential Essential
  • Demonstrates substantial post-registration experience gained working in front-line mental health services, undertaking assessment and delivering interventions.
  • Demonstrates substantial experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies
  • Highly developed written communication skills, with experience of compiling and sorting notes and reports, establishing statistical data and analysing information
  • Able to articulate a detailed understanding of the relevant legal Frameworks/legislation including CPA process, Mental Health Act , Mental Capacity Act, and Safeguarding.
  • Substantially developed IT skills including competent use of Microsoft Office, and the use of electronic record keeping systems
  • Diploma level/Degree in relevant health/social care profession, eg RMN, RGN
  • Current relevant registration with the NMC and commitment to CPD
Desirable
  • Experience gained in a wide variety of settings


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342-SWN246-0822

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