Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 110-NMR311-0724
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sardis House
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Salary
- £35,922 - £43,257 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Mental Health Nurse, Homelessness Team
Band 6
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
The recently developed Specialist Mental Health and Substance Misuse Housing Outreach Service are looking for a skilled and creative practitioner with knowledge of working with and supporting people who are vulnerably housed or homeless. The aim is to deliver evidence based holistic mental health care to people within the context of an integrated multi-disciplinary, multi-agency specialist service.
The Team due to expansion now consists of staff from the Local Authority, Health, Third Sector, Trauma Informed Counsellors, Adult Social Care staff and Medics. The Team also works collaboratively with staff from the GP surgeries. This holistic approach provides essential support for adults with complex needs.
The service runs from Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm and covers CTM. Staff where possible cover a locality each however where there is sickness or a shortage of staff there will be an expectation to cover.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speaker are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide support and intervention for individuals through holistic person centred assessment, treatment, intervention and evaluation of their care within a multi-agency team approach. They will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care and support for people within the community whether this be at home, temporary accommodation or hostel. They will take responsibility for a clinical caseload of clients referred to the Specialist Mental Health and Substance Misuse Housing Outreach Service.
The post holder will work collaboratively with the wider multi-disciplinary teams to meet the needs of people within their communities. This will generally involve working with adults who have health needs due to complications of drug, alcohol use and/or mental ill health and would support transitional arrangements for people requiring primary and secondary health support.
As this service is a newly established service the post holder will be required to contribute to the continuing promotion, improvement and development of the service through networking, and representing the service at all times.
The post holder will be required to deputise for Band 7 nurses on occasion, this will include supervision of Band 3 HCSW's, attendance at various meetings and ensure availability to offer advice and support to housing providers accordingly.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registration
Desirable criteria
- Independent prescriber qualification
- Evidence of CPD
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience at Band 5 level
- Experience of multi agency/disciplinary working
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching and facilitating group work
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Specialist knowledge within relevant area of practice e.g mental health and substance misuse
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of services available to support mental well-being
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Thomas
- Job title
- Homelessness Service Team Leader (HOS)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07890420341
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