Job summary
- Main area
- Community Mental Health Nurse
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 232-CMT-6324250-A
- Employer
- North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Dragon Square
- Town
- Stoke on Trent
- Salary
- £28,407 - £42,618 pro rata, per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
North Staffs CAMHS are looking to appoint a Band 5 progression post of a Mental Health Nurse. We are extremely excited to have an addition of the team and the successful applicant will be supported by the wider team making up of Psychiatrists, Nurses, Nurse Medical Prescribers, Psychologists, Occupational Therapist, Social workers and Peer Support Worker.
We are keen to develop pathways and ensure we can offer a wide range of interventions for our young people and their families and onward training is something we are passionate about in supporting a person’s career goals. Following succession within this post, it will look into progression of a Band 6 post following competencies hit. If you are looking for an enthusiastic and friendly team, come and join our team!
Main duties of the job
To operate a duty role in the screening of referrals and allocation for assessment. To provide support and guidance to colleagues over issues of risks and/ or complex clinical presentation To act as named nurse with responsibility for the assessment, planning and delivery of care to the identified patient group.
To act as a Change Agent and actively seek to develop practice.
To develop relationships and strengthen links and liaise between the different care providers.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it.
Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust’s Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
Compassionate
Caring with compassion, it’s about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable
Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open
Responsible
Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions.
Excellent
Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1.1. To act as named nurse for an identified group of patients within the well-being service. To ensure that appropriate interventions are planned and delivered according to assessed need. To promote a positive nurse patient relationship and to engage with carers/relatives as appropriate. To have responsibility for documenting the plans of care and ensuring that plans remain current and that standards for record-keeping are adhered to. To take an active role in auditing and maintaining standards of record-keeping for this group of patients.
1.2. To have responsibility for seeking support and advice from the CPN caseload Manager in respect of issues and difficulties with individual patient care. To attend regular decision-making meetings with the CPN caseload Manager in order to address caseload management issues such as acceptance of assessments, the provision of ongoing care, discharge planning, face-to-face contacts and patient mix.
1.3. To assess patient response and provide advice and education to both patient and carers in respect of prescribed medicines.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working therapeutically in community settings
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of various approaches to mental health assessment
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
- Beth Griffiths
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
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