Job summary
Employer heading
Primary Care Mental Health Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.
Across the whole of the region we provide:
- Adult and older adult mental health services
- Specialist learning disability services
- Mental health services for children and young people
- Community healthcare services for children, young people and families in Dudley
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, with the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.
We currently employ over 4,000 people and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds. Whatever your role, working in a NHS Foundation Trust, like ours, is a demanding and extremely rewarding experience. Knowing that every day you can help to make a positive difference to someone’s life is a very powerful feeling. We know that our Trust runs on this desire to help and support people, and our Trust vision expresses this. Our vision is to improve health and wellbeing for everyone, especially our colleagues to achieve the best possible work/life balance.
We proudly offer supportive, inclusive and family friendly employment and flexible working policies. We have a wide range of professional services and employee networks to help our colleagues be at their best - and find support if they need it. To find more about our staff benefits, please visit our website: blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and ethnic minority candidates are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Black Country Healthcare we recognise and value all forms of knowledge and expertise, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification or criteria in the job description/person specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For further supporting information to help you apply for this role please see documents attached under ‘Additional documents’.
Job overview
The post holder will be part of a dynamic team of clinicians whose responsibility it is to develop and improve services for people over 18 years with common mental health problems in primary care. The role includes working across designated GP practices within the primary care networks, attending weekly integrated care team meetings.
The post holder will provide effective consultation and liaison across the primary and secondary care sectors, whilst facilitating and improving access to appropriate services. The role is to provide mental health screening assessments, risk assessment, medication monitoring, telephone triage, sign posting, referral to other services and brief intervention for people experiencing common mental health problems,
The post holder will also provide support, education and problem-solving advice to other members of the local primary care teams particularly in the areas of assessment and management of mental health problems, working across different geographical settings and undertake home visits.
Previous applicants and agencies need not apply.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will undertake specific managerial, administrative, preceptor and clinical supervisor roles as required by the post. To ensure up to date, accurate clinical notes and activity recording relevant to the role and participate in audit and any appropriate approved research.
In response to current local policy and national strategy for mental health, active involvement in developing services to meet the mental health needs of users and carers in primary care, ensuring they are equitable, non-stigmatising and responsive to local need and available to people aged 18 and over experiencing a common mental health problem. To maintain and improve knowledge and skills based on best practice particularly specialist knowledge and skills in mental health issues in primary care. To act as role model and resource for junior/less experienced staff and students from the multi-disciplinary team.
Working for our organisation
You will be joining the Trust at an exciting time as we embark on our Adult community journey to deliver on community transformation, to ensure our service users are at the centre of this process, in truly co-produced services. This post offers you an opportunity to extend your knowledge, skills and development within this rewarding role at a time of transformation of community mental health services
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Provide triage and assessments of mental health needs using sound knowledge base and evidence-based outcome measures in all areas of mental health including risk assessment and risk management
- To work in partnership with service users to identify effective strategies to promote understanding and management of presenting mental health problems
- Provide information, advice, education, health promotion and liaison for referrers, service users and carers, colleagues, and the wider community about all aspects of mental health and the options, choices, and opportunities available to them
- Critically analyse service user information, formulate individual plans of care, using evidence based brief interventions.
- To signpost and support referral of service users to a range of services, as appropriate including primary, secondary and voluntary agencies and to follow up where required
- To participate in the development and delivery of primary care based therapeutic and support groups in response to local need
- To attend and activity participate in the multidisciplinary integrated care team meetings weekly in surgeries across the borough
- To actively participate in appropriate managerial, clinical and caseload supervision for self in accordance with Trust policy in order to support all clinical work undertaken
- Where identified through assessment, facilitate the stepped care model/clinical pathways for clients experiencing enduring mental health problems
Please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification for further details.
Person specification
essential
Essential criteria
- • Entry on a Register held by Nursing Midwifery Council (Sub Part 1 RN3, Registered Nurse Mental Health)
- • Evidence of current continued professional development
- • Willingness to undertake non-medical prescribing
- • Post registration experience of working autonomously in community mental health services
- • Experience of working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary/ multiagency team
- • Experience of managing and organising own workload
- • Skills in assessing and formulating individual intervention plans and outcome measures for adults with mental health problems
- • Risk assessment / risk management skills
- • Knowledge of latest evidence based practice and NICE guidance for supporting individuals with Mental Health needs
- • Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance / safeguarding and its application
- • Excellent communication skills oral and written
- • Car Driver
Desirable criteria
- • Training relevant to the role - teaching and assessing, clinical supervision, motivational interviewing, solution focused working
- • Supporting staff in the day-to-day provision of clinical services
- • Experience of management or leadership
- • Experience of delivering new and innovative practice in a clinical setting
- • Mentorship of student nurses
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
- Lindsey Shields
- Job title
- Primary Care Mental Health Team Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07795 060850
- Additional information
For further information or a discussion about the role please contact Lindsey Shields on 07795060850 or via email at [email protected].
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