Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (includes weekends and nights)
- Job ref
- 364-A-8364-A
- Employer
- Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Lakes MHU
- Town
- Colchester
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Practitioner
Band 6
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
You will work as a Band 6 Senior Community Nurse with the Crisis Response Team in
providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic assessments to patients in line with your
NMC professional code of conduct and Trust policies. You will assess, plan, implement and
evaluate packages of care based upon individual service user needs, under the guidance of
the Team Leader as per NICE guidance. The team works closely with the 2 other teams
which form the Urgent Care Pathway – Hospital Liaison and Home First - to respond to
urgent and emergency mental health crisis. Assessments can be completed within the
community and ability to drive is essential. The Team have use of a lease car. The team also
covers the 111 Option 2 telephone contact service and a part of your role will be to take calls
from service users contacting this service.
As required by your manager, you will have responsibility for the day to day co-ordination of
the shifts within the Crisis Response Team.
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 work as a Band 6 Senior Community Nurse with the Crisis Response Team in
providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic assessments to patients in line with your
NMC professional code of conduct and Trust policies. You will assess, plan, implement and
evaluate packages of care based upon individual service user needs, under the guidance of
the Team Leader as per NICE guidance. The team works closely with the 2 other teams
which form the Urgent Care Pathway – Hospital Liaison and Home First - to respond to
urgent and emergency mental health crisis. Assessments can be completed within the
community and ability to drive is essential. The Team have use of a lease car. The team also
covers the 111 Option 2 telephone contact service and a part of your role will be to take calls
from service users contacting this service.
As required by your manager, you will have responsibility for the day to day co-ordination of
the shifts within the Crisis Response Team.
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.
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
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.
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
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 comprehensive assessment and care planning in line with the requirements
of the Mental Health Care Clusters
Produce accurate and timely documentation on all service users in line with your
professional code of conduct and Trust policy.
Triage of referrals received and to ensure a timely response and accurate allocation
of referrals received according to risks.
Participate in the planning and ongoing review of service users either awaiting
assessment or allocation for continuing care to ensure care provided is effective and
safe
Provide practical support, advice, signposting and education to service users, carers
and other disciplines.
Have an awareness of other statutory and voluntary service provisions to signpost
service users for appropriate care.
Responsible for the recording of all patient related activity information onto Paris.
Carry out risk assessment of the individual and of the potential hazards in the service
user’s environment.
Report and document incidents as required.
Provide education and support to develop service users understanding of mental
illness.
Be competent in use of relevant screening and assessment tools.
Support the induction and ongoing development of newly qualified nursing staff.
Participate in audit and research
Person specification
Relevant Degree or Diploma
Essential criteria
- Achieved Grade
Desirable criteria
- Achieved Grade
Experience
Essential criteria
- 2 years post graduate experience
Desirable criteria
- 1 years post graduate experience
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
- Angela Twaites
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07583684067
- Additional information
My working days are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
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