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Senior Community Nurse

Employer
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Braintree
Salary
£33,706 to £40,588 a year per annum
Closing date
1 Feb 2023

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Profession
Nurse, Community mental health nurse
Grade
Band 6
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Community Mental Health Team based at The Gables, Braintree, working across then Mid Essex locality, delivering high quality interventions and treatment.

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Main duties of the job

You will work as a member of the nursing team in providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic nursing care to patients in line with your NMC professional code of conduct and Trust policies. You will assess, plan, implement and evaluate packages of care and treatment based upon individual service user needs, under the guidance of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner as per NICE guidance.

You will be supervise other clinicians within the team and take an active role in student education.

About us

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
  • Season Ticket Loans
  • NHS discounts for staff
  • Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
  • Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
  • The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
  • Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
  • Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

Job description Job responsibilities

Please note that this role outline serves to provide an illustrative example of the duties and responsibilities you may be expected to undertake during the course of your normal duties. It is not an exhaustive list and you will therefore be required to undertake other responsibilities and duties that are considered to be commensurate with the band.

Core Clinical Function
  • Provide and oversee the management and care of service users in collaboration with community partners where indicated.
  • Produce accurate and timely documentation, conduct and manage the maintenance of accurate and timely documentation / records on all service users in line with your professional code of conduct and Trust policy.
  • Oversee the conduct / contribute to the assessment process, as well as the observation and ongoing assessment, providing accurate and timely feedback.
  • Conduct risk assessment of the individual and of the potential hazards in the service users environment.
  • Attend multi-disciplinary meetings i.e. referral / review / business.
  • Report and document incidents as required.
  • Conduct and oversee physical health care checks and act upon the findings.
  • Act as a care coordinator / and or key worker.
  • Lead, facilitate and support group work such as relaxation, health promotion, hearing voices, anger management, psycho education etc.
  • Responsible for administration of medications, assessment of side effects, review concordance and clinical effectiveness of medication regime in line with Trust policy including
    • Safe transportation and storage of medicines, checking receipt, storage of medicines in medicine cupboard.
    • Provide education around the medication prescribed, side effects, actions and aids to compliance.
  • Provide education and support to develop service users understanding of mental illness and training packages for staff.
  • Provide psycho-social intervention, education and support to develop service users understanding of mental illness with aim to prevent relapse and admission and training packages for staff.
  • Provide practical support, guidance and education for service users, carers.
  • Undertake carers assessment in line with the Trusts key performance indicators.
  • Undertake, supervise and sign-off nursing needs assessments and where necessary contribute to Self Directed Support assessments.
  • Be competent in use of relevant screening and assessment tools and supervise lower banded staff to undertake this function.
  • Provide comprehensive assessment, care planning, treatment and review of care in line with the requirements of the Mental Health Care Clusters.
  • Provide formulation, delivery and review of individualised evidence based care / care packages according to NICE guidance including non-medication strategies.
  • Lead in the continuing development of a high quality service that is underpinned by evidence based practice, care pathways / packages and NICE and DH Guidance.
  • Identify, assess and manage clinical and non-clinical risks/hazards in your area through the completion of the relevant risk assessments.
  • Implement the risk treatment plans for inclusion in the local and Trusts risk registers through the Risk Management department.
  • Participate in audit and research.
  • Undertake physical health checks of services users and act on the findings appropriately.
  • Understand the eligibility criteria and assessment process for Self-Directed Support (SDS) to meet service user needs.
  • Review SDS services in a robust and efficient manner, pro-actively promoting the approach of SDS.
  • Understand and utilise Health and Social Care commissioned services, demonstrating an empathetic approach of Fairer Access to Care Services.



Person Specification Qualifications Essential
  • Relevant qualification and post qualification experience
Experience Essential
  • Relevant qualification and post qualification experience


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