Job summary
- Main area
- Registered Mental health Nurse
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (service hours 0900-1700 Monday-Friday)
- Job ref
- 364-A-8112
- Employer
- Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Crystal Centre
- Town
- Chelmsford
- Salary
- £41,659 - £47,672 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 08:00
Employer heading
Under 65's Practitioner
Band 7
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values
- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
Our strategic objectives
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Mid Essex Dementia and Frailty Pathway, as an under 65 worker for young onset dementia.
The position requires experience in working with individuals who have a diagnosis of dementia, and beneficial but not essential to have worked with those diagnosed under the age of 65. You will need to have an understanding of the complex needs of the individual, experience in SDS packages and Commissioning, Safeguarding, Risk Assessments, and Person centered care planning.
We work closely with Essex County Council colleagues, local organizations as well as the voluntary sector to support the holistic needs of the patient with a person centered collaborative approach.
We are looking for:
- An experienced registered mental health nurse or social worker
- A competent, confident and proficient practitioner
- Who is organized and able to work creatively and effectively in a busy and demanding role
- It is essential that you have a UK driving license and able to drive for this position.
You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering services; providing a 7-day a week, 24-hours a day service for 365 days a year, working shifts where appropriate and operationally required.
Main duties of the job
You will be working as a senior member of the multidisciplinary clinical team, working in one specified pathway or across pathways in accordance with area / locality structures, assessing and treating your own complex specialist caseload of service users in accordance with Trust clinical pathways.
You will also have responsibility for the day-to-day supervision and management of lower banded staff within your professional group and team locality. As required by your manager this may include the management of these staff in line with agreed Trust HR processes.
Working for our organisation
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
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.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Take on the role of lead practitioner
- Experience of dealing with confidential and sensitive information
- Proven experience of working in a health / social care or community setting as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working with, supervising lower banded staff and / or managing the care of service users with highly complex needs
- Act as a care coordinator in highly complex cases
- Provide clinical leadership to lower banded staff in line with OT Standards and Trust policies and procedures
- Manage and coordinate multi-disciplinary meetings i.e. referral / review / business / handover
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Diploma/ Degree NMC Registration RMN
Desirable criteria
- Masters degree or willingness to undertake this
- NMP qualification or the willingness to undertake this
Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing and coordinating multi-disciplinary meetings i.e. referral / review / business / handover
- Lead / assist with the recruitment process of other clinical staff as required, supported by the Clinical Manager where appropriate
- Deliver training to colleagues and lower banded staff as appropriate
- Take on the role of lead practitioner
- The ability to deal effectively with multiple priorities whilst working under pressure and meet deadlines as required
Desirable criteria
- Prioritise own work load and give support to other staff in relation to priorities when required
- Ability to motivate people
- Knowledge of system one or Paris
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understand the need for compassion in working with colleagues, service users and families.
- NMC code for professional Practice
- Knowledge of mental health legislation, NHS Constitution, CPA and risk assessment and management
- Ability to supervise and conduct highly complex assessments and review of care
- Excellent IT Skills – Word / Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel
- Knowledge of working with external agencies to support the service user group
- Provide clinical leadership to support the team to meet their key performance indicators and contractual targets
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, telephone manner including liaison with outside agencies
- Record all patient related information on Trust electronic records system and audit the interventions recorded by lower banded staff
- Lead / chair professional meetings / reviews
- Contribute to or conduct SI and other investigations as required
- Current driving licence
Desirable criteria
- Provide professional advice when dealing with service users, family and carers, and other professionals on a daily basis
- Resilience to effectively manage own emotions in response to the emotional distress of others and support other team members in this process
- Ability to travel independently across a wide geographical area
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Blowers
- Job title
- Clinical Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07891 511 372
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