Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Staff Nurse

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Job summary

Band 5- 6 Development Role

We have created 2 new exciting development roles for newly/recently qualified nurses within our Hope Service. You would start as a Band 5 Nurse and have a personally tailored development plan that would ensure you can move to the Band 6 role within 12-24 months. Our Nurse Consultants have recently launched a specific preceptorship plan to CYPS and this would run alongside the development plan to ensure we invest in you and your learning journey as you work alongside the rest of this amazing team.

The Hope Service is a truly integrated service of health, social care and education aimed to help our most vulnerable young people who are at risk of inpatient admissions or placement breakdowns. The Hope Service offers a Day Programme and outreach services. As a nurse within this service you would be working alongside other health professionals, Teachers and Social Workers and developing relationships with the wider networks including Mindworks Surrey, our Acute Hospital Paediatric colleagues, and many other stakeholders.

Starting in the Band 5 role working alongside others to hone and develop you assessment and risk management skills you will work towards becoming a Band 6 MH Practitioner where you would hold your own caseload and be more autonomous.

There is training for crisis pathway teams that offers further learning, via a London based company, that includes Crisis & risk as well as DBT-A.

Main duties of the job

The Hope Service works with young people between the age of 11 until their 18th birthday

As a nurse you would be seeing young people and their families not only within the Hope Day Programme but in other settings such as the Health Based Place of Safety (HBPoS), Acute Paediatric Wards, schools and in their homes. This gives a rich experience of networking with the wider Surrey system and collaborating to provide the best plan of care for our young people to meet their needs.

You may be in-reaching to young people who are currently in a T4 adolescent inpatient unit which is mainly virtual currently as we have yet to have beds in Surrey for our young people - the new T4 General Adolescent Unit for Surrey young people should be opening later this year which is exciting. This in-reach is to ensure we are focused on the purpose of admission, achieving goals and outcomes and planning for discharge in a timely manner. Mainly you will work with young people who are at risk of going into hospital and may be at risk of placement breakdown. They may not be in school currently and the Day Programme offers an opportunity to help our young people prepare for returning to school and work with schools so young people feel confident to return to classroom learning and being with their friends.

This is a development opportunity so as you gain experience, knowledge and skills through a personalised approach we will be supporting you in to the Band 6 role within 12-24 months.

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Date posted

07 February 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £42,503 a year Incl 5% Fringe High Cost Area Supplement

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9325-23-3555

Job locations

Hope Service

Worplesdon Road

Guildford

Surrey

GU2 9RS

Hope Service

West Park Hospital, Horton Lane,

Epsom

Surrey

KT19 8PB

Job description

Job responsibilities

Qualifications required

Degree level qualification in Nursing RMN, LD or RG Children accepted

Experience required

Band 5 minimum of 1 years experience working with people with mental health problems either pre or post qualification.

Band 6 minimum 1 years post qualification experience of working in the community with young people with mental health difficulties and their families. Ability to undertake: Mental Health Assessments, Risk Assessment and implement Risk Management Plans and outcome measures.

Suitable for someone who is passionate about providing high quality, evidence-based interventions for the care and treatment to CYP with moderate to severe mental health problems.

Job Purpose

Key Responsibilities

Report to the General Manager (GM) and Clinical Nurse Lead and contribute to the development of the health pathway and delivery of service.

To provide timely assessment of CYP who are referred and who may require diversion from T4 admission or out of area placement or who need T4 admission or a placement to meet their biopsychosocial needs.

To provide support, advice and education to the Acute Hospitals, and other emergency service provision such as the Police to build knowledge and skills of staff within these settings.

To work individually and jointly within the Mindworks alliance to provide a specialist, assessment, and treatment service to CYP and their families/carers in crisis.

Home :: Mindworks Surrey (mindworks-surrey.org)

Band 5

Work closely within the Mindworks alliance and develop understanding of the ithrive model and how the Mindworks Alliance collaborate.

Undertake clinical assessment of CYP who may have a complex co-morbid mental health needs and present in crisis under supervision, working alongside medical, nursing, and other professional colleagues to ensure that the most effective care and treatment is provided to meet their current needs.

Work closely with the Emergency Departments, Crisis Intervention Service, Extended Hope, CCISS, the Adult Psychiatric Liaison Service, other Mental Health Crisis Teams, On Call Duty Psychiatrist, On Call Managers, Paediatric Liaison Nurses, ensuring CYP are seen in a timely manner and risk is assessed and a management plan is developed

Develop/update the My Safety Plan with C/YP and families to ensure a robust crisis and contingency plan.

Work within a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team involved in the assessment and treatment of CYP with serious and complex mental health difficulties in crisis.

Offer support for Students on placement.

Co-work with other members of the integrated team.

Take responsibility for maintaining accurate and timely records of all work undertaken in accordance with Trust policies, legal requirements and the NMC Code of Conduct.

Have basic IT skills and data entry skills to enter clinical information on the databases.

Contribute to the teams overall quality standard of services provided.

Through the appraisal and supervision systems help understand/identify own training needs and undertake continuous professional development.

Ensure high standards of care are provided, and that regard to dignity, individuality, self-esteem and wellbeing of individuals and their families are given. Monitored and evaluated on a continuous basis.

Ensure that outcome measures for the Hope Service are implemented.

Interface with other services/agencies regarding care, treatment, and discharge planning.

Through supervision be supported towards developing into the Band 6 role of Mental Health Nurse Practitioner using the competency framework as a guide.

Band 6 (in addition to Band 5)

You will lead clinical assessments of CYP who may have a complex co-morbid mental health needs and present in crisis, working alongside medical, nursing, and other professional colleagues to ensure that the most effective care and treatment is provided resulting in safe, timely discharge

Co-ordinate and liaise with Mindworks Alliance responding to crisis and urgent referrals of CYP/ or for crisis and urgent presentations of CYP already working with the Hope and Ext Hope Services.

To work as an autonomous practitioner with your own defined caseload and contribute to the work of the integrated team.

Ensure you engage with supervision, learning sets and other forums as part of your ongoing learning and development.

Contribute to audits of outcome measures for the service and to any relevant research/evidence-based practice that can inform developments within the service.

Be responsible for the initial assessment and discharge/ or care coordination role for the C/TP utilising fully the electronic patient record (EPR)

Advise referrers on outcome of assessment and respond to requests for and provide formal reports for other agencies.

Represent the Service at professional/network meetings to offer advice/consultation.

To undertake relevant CPD to improve assessment and treatment skills regarding crisis care.

Lead on transfer of C/YP from Hope Service back to other CYPS Services or transitions to Adult services.

Development Expectations: .

You will be allocated a mentor to support and coach during the first 6 months, usually the Clinical Nurse Lead.

The clinical and managerial supervision process within the service will monitor and tailor the process to each individual and will monitor progress after the initial 6 months.

It is expected that within 12-24 months of the development period you will be able to demonstrate meeting the required competencies at a Band 6 level