Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 301-SB-24-6339153-A
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community Perinatal Mental Health Team
- Town
- Tamworth
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Community Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
At MPFT we pride ourselves on staff wellbeing and development and we can offer you:
- Our SOOTHE resources - supporting staff across the trust with their physical, mental and financial health. In addition to the support offered from our occupational health provider Team Prevent.
- Counselling support and lifestyle information with advice on a variety of personal matters
- “In our Gift” providing a platform for your voice to be heard to inform change
- The opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- Opportunities for flexible working (depending on the role)
- Career development opportunities and coaching plus access to in house training programs
- Innovative research training program entitled STARS (Supporting the advancement of Research Skills)
- Child Care Vouchers Scheme
- Recognition and engagement through our staff LOVE awards, LOVE long service awards and Staff Engagement Surveys
- NHS discounts available via the Blue Card and Red Guava schemes
Main duties of the job
1. Working in a Specialist Perinatal community mental health pathway, with the flexibility of working across the Trust, dependent on skill and service need.
2. Delivering a high quality clinical service to patients and their families.
3. Managing a complex caseload and responsible for clinical and caseload supervision of other team members where identified.
4. Delivering interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to mothers experiencing mental health related difficulties.
Working for our organisation
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is an award-winning organisation with over 9000 employees. We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.
We pride ourselves on the services provided to support with the well-being of all our employees both physically and mentally and offer counselling support and lifestyle information. Opportunities for flexible working are also available depending on the role. We encourage career development provided by in house training programs and coaching support.
As part of our strong commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, we welcome applications from candidates who meet the specific criteria, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, physical and/or mental disability or offending background. We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will deliver a high quality, comprehensive mental health service for mothers with serious and enduring mental health difficulties. The role involves managing a defined caseload, acting as a key member of the multi-disciplinary team, the post holder will provide assessment, psychosocial, evidence-based interventions using a collaborative approach and will be skilled at risk assessment and management. S/he will complement the multi-disciplinary working of the team, providing supervision for other team members, as agreed with the Operational Manager. She/he will participate in team and service development and evaluation. Liaison, advice and consultation with a wide range of agencies is central to the role.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Registered mental health Nurse/Social Worker or Occupational Therapist
- Post-registration experience, evidence of formal courses and training at diploma/degree level.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership qualification
- BSc degree in nursing/social work/occupational therapy or equivalent level
- Qualification in providing supervision
- Qualification in coaching
- Non – medical Prescriber
- Psychological intervention Qualification including EMDR, CBT, CBTp, Family Interventions, CAT, DBT
- Phlebotomy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of extensive post registration experience with working with adults experiencing mental health related difficulties
- Experience of working with women experiencing perinatal mental health needs/knowledge of demographic risk factors for this client group.
- Experience of working with people who have difficulty in engaging with services and have complex mental health needs
- Experience of working in community setting and making decisions autonomously
- Experience of assessing, planning, co-ordinating and managing people with mental health problems in a community setting.
- Experience of integrating care delivery across multi-disciplinary /multi agency teams
- Experience of leading/contributing to CPA/SAP process
- Experience of presenting at local/national level
- Experience and ability to carry out clinical audit
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the Mental Health NICE Guidelines
- Understanding of the principles of the Care Programme Approach and Community Care Act
- Demonstrate understanding of Equality and Anti-discriminatory practice
- Knowledge of other relevant local and national documents/drivers that affects practice
- Knowledge of the wide range of statutory independent and third sector service provision for adults with mental ill health
- Skills of assessing, planning and evaluating care, for people with mental health related difficulties, utilising the principles of Recovery
- Skilled in the assessment of clinical risk and developing and communicating appropriate risk management plans
- Knowledge and experience of holistic assessment of someone’s mental ill health, strengths and needs and appropriate nursing and multi-disciplinary and agency interventions.
- Ability to complete and interpret HONOS
- Ability to integrate the assessment, care planning and the review process for service users/carers in a sensitive manner
- A range of skills and knowledge to deliver evidence based interventions
- Knowledge of the physical health needs and monitoring requirements for people receiving adult community mental health services
- Skilled in interventions to engage people difficult to engage
- Skilled in interventions to support concordance with treatment interventions
- Knowledge of Mental Health Act, the Mental Capacity Act and DOLS
- Range of Interpersonal skills, (communication, listening, working collaboratively) maintaining good working relationships with service users/carers, other service providers and agencies
- Ability to manage staff/support workers and to incorporate management/leadership skills into practice including: promoting positivity, supporting innovation, management of performance, delegation and caseload and clinical supervision.
- Supervisory skills and knowledge to be able to provide clinical supervision
- Participate in Staff Appraisal and Performance Review
- Ability to work to agreed Quality Standards (CQUINS, CQC, MONITOR, NHSLA, NHS OUTCOMES and others)
- Accurate and timely recording and maintenance of information systems
- Ability to type into and read information from electronic records.
- Ability to manage conflict and complexity
- Ability to work across community settings and travel across a geographical area.
Desirable criteria
- Skilled in utilising specific assessments and outcome measures including; GAD7, PHQ9, CAARMS, PANNS, SWEMWBS, Lunsers, GASS
personal attributes
Essential criteria
- Leadership skills, ability to motivate and influence others
- Team player, Integrity, Negotiation skills, good time management/organisation skills
- Ability to deliver difficult messages in a sensitive manner
- Credibility with others as a clinician and a leader
- Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour
- Possesses values and beliefs that enables others to deliver services effectively
- Passion for working with adults experiencing mental health difficulties
- A flexible attitude
- Ability to work across community settings and travel across a 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
- Fiona Lovell
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 303 4132
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