Community Psychiatric Nurse/ Forensic Community Team

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

About the team:

The Lambeth Forensic Community Team, is a busy specialist community team within Lambeth. The team consists of Nurses, Psychologist and Psychiatrists. We provide care and treatment for service users with forensic history and challenging behaviour and are currently based at Lambeth Hospital.

Main duties of the job

About the role:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Psychiatric Nurse to work in the Lambeth Community Forensic Mental Health Team as 12 month secondment or 12 month fixed term contract. We are looking to find a dynamic, creative, forward thinking and hard-working nurse to work within our friendly team.

The Post Holder will work as a member of a borough based Forensic Community Team and will manage a reasonable caseload of clients with offending history and complex mental health problems.

The post holder will aim to provide a flexible, responsive and pro-active programme of care and support for the service users and their carers. you will be required to develop and maintain links across a wide variety of statutory and non statutory organisations such as Probation, MAPPA, Jigsaw, Hostels, primary care and other voluntary and non voluntary services. You will also be involved in specialist mental health assessments and the application of evidence based psychosocial interventions.

About us

Benefits:

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

Counselling services
Wellbeing events
Long service awards
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Childcare vouchers
Staff restaurants

We look forward to receiving your application

Date posted

09 September 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£40,448 to £47,965 a year per annum Inc plus High Cost Allowances

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

334-CRY-4516601-HM

Job locations

Landor House

Lambeth Hospital, Landor House, 108 Landor Road,

London

SW9 9NT

Job description

Job responsibilities

Education and Qualification

Registered Mental Health Nurse and/or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse

-Mentorship qualification

Experience and Knowledge

Experience of research based/reflective practice, e.g. understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge anddevelop these by using evidence based practice

-Significant relevant clinical experience

-Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience as a preceptor / mentor

Desirable

Awareness/knowledge of the issues surrounding social inclusion for mental health service users

Experience of taking responsibility for a ward / clinical unit.

Experience of engaging / supporting clinical research projects

Experience of supporting practice development in clinical areas

Skills and Abilities

Skills in clinical assessment/baseline mental health assessment

Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations.

Skills in risk assessment and risk management and crisis management

Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service users needs, without close supervision

desirable

Problem solving, ability to identify problems, review options and take appropriate action without a predetermined framework

knowledge

Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation

Knowledge of clinical governance and audit

Job description

Job responsibilities

Education and Qualification

Registered Mental Health Nurse and/or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse

-Mentorship qualification

Experience and Knowledge

Experience of research based/reflective practice, e.g. understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge anddevelop these by using evidence based practice

-Significant relevant clinical experience

-Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience as a preceptor / mentor

Desirable

Awareness/knowledge of the issues surrounding social inclusion for mental health service users

Experience of taking responsibility for a ward / clinical unit.

Experience of engaging / supporting clinical research projects

Experience of supporting practice development in clinical areas

Skills and Abilities

Skills in clinical assessment/baseline mental health assessment

Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations.

Skills in risk assessment and risk management and crisis management

Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service users needs, without close supervision

desirable

Problem solving, ability to identify problems, review options and take appropriate action without a predetermined framework

knowledge

Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation

Knowledge of clinical governance and audit

Person Specification

Qualifications/Education

Essential

Registered Adult Nurse and/or Registered Mental Health Nurse and/or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse
Mentorship qualification

Desirable

Master's degree

Experience

Essential

Significant relevant clinical experience
Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience as a preceptor / mentor

Desirable

Awareness/knowledge of the issues surrounding social inclusion for mental health service users
Experience of taking responsibility for a ward / clinical unit.
Experience of engaging / supporting clinical research projects
Experience of supporting practice development in clinical areas
Experience of teaching. e.g. lecturer practitioner/preceptorship

Skills

Essential

Skills in clinical assessment/baseline mental health assessment
Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations.
Skills in risk assessment and risk management and crisis management

Desirable

Problem solving, ability to identify problems, review options and take appropriate action without a predetermined framework

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation
Knowledge of clinical governance and audit

Person Specification

Qualifications/Education

Essential

Registered Adult Nurse and/or Registered Mental Health Nurse and/or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse
Mentorship qualification

Desirable

Master's degree

Experience

Essential

Significant relevant clinical experience
Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience as a preceptor / mentor

Desirable

Awareness/knowledge of the issues surrounding social inclusion for mental health service users
Experience of taking responsibility for a ward / clinical unit.
Experience of engaging / supporting clinical research projects
Experience of supporting practice development in clinical areas
Experience of teaching. e.g. lecturer practitioner/preceptorship

Skills

Essential

Skills in clinical assessment/baseline mental health assessment
Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations.
Skills in risk assessment and risk management and crisis management

Desirable

Problem solving, ability to identify problems, review options and take appropriate action without a predetermined framework

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation
Knowledge of clinical governance and audit

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).