Job summary
The Community Mental Health Rehabilitation & Enablement service is an exciting service that focuses on the rehabilitation needs of service users who have complex mental health issues and require intensive support to promote social inclusion and facilitate greater independence.
This service aims to enable Service Users to develop the right skills to improve their quality of life through independent living and effective management of their mental health difficulties.
An opportunity has arisen to appoint a Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse within our Bexley CMHRES team. This is a unique and exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and innovative professional from a community mental health nursing background who has experience of working with individuals with mental health problems, in community settings and fully understands the rehabilitation, enablement and recovery models of evidence based clinical practice.
Main duties of the job
As a Care Coordinator working in Bexley Community Mental Health and Enablement Service (CMHRES), you will promote and deliver evidence-based care for service users with mental health conditions in their own homes and within a variety of accommodation settings. You will hold responsibility for a defined caseload of service users who have complex mental health and rehabilitation needs. The main aim of the Team is to focus on rehabilitation, engagement, relapse prevention and enablement to optimise the service users' ability to live independently and enjoy a good quality of life.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To hold professional responsibility for assessing individual care needs, risk assessments, development, implementation and evaluation of care plans for service users with the most complex rehabilitation needs.
- Being an effective communicator, observer and listener with advanced interpersonal skills, and a refined ability to deal sensitively with this client group
- Maintaining confidentiality at all times particularly in relation to consent in relation to sharing information, whilst respecting the individual service users rights and the Trusts position on common sense confidentially.
- Adhere to the Trusts, relevant policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Ensure good working relationships with service users, carers, family networks, nearest relatives, other professionals and the public.
- Demonstrating understanding and use of clinical supervision to reflect upon and modify own and others practice.
Please see job description for further details
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To hold professional responsibility for assessing individual care needs, risk assessments, development, implementation and evaluation of care plans for service users with the most complex rehabilitation needs.
- Being an effective communicator, observer and listener with advanced interpersonal skills, and a refined ability to deal sensitively with this client group
- Maintaining confidentiality at all times particularly in relation to consent in relation to sharing information, whilst respecting the individual service users rights and the Trusts position on common sense confidentially.
- Adhere to the Trusts, relevant policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Ensure good working relationships with service users, carers, family networks, nearest relatives, other professionals and the public.
- Demonstrating understanding and use of clinical supervision to reflect upon and modify own and others practice.
Please see job description for further details
Person Specification
RMN
Essential
RMN
Essential
- At least 2 years' experience post qualification experience
RMN
Essential
- Experience of applying standardised assessments.
Person Specification
RMN
Essential
RMN
Essential
- At least 2 years' experience post qualification experience
RMN
Essential
- Experience of applying standardised assessments.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
