Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Community Mental Health Nurse

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Job summary

The Intensive Support Team is a new and exciting service working across Portsmouth and the Southeast region supporting the older persons population of Gosport & Fareham, Havant & Waterlooville and Petersfield and Bordon.

We are seeking positive and motivated staff who are committed to improving the quality of life for others who may be at a point of crisis in their lives who wish to be part of a resilient, welcoming and professional team.

The aim of IST is to implement a model of OPMH care to support older adults with mental health needs both organic and functional who are experiencing a crisis. The service provides time-limited specialist support, assessment, formulation and intervention for individuals who are experiencing a significant decline in their quality of life as a result of complex mental health needs and/or distressed behaviours that may result in placement/home breakdown and/or hospital admission. Those accessing the service present with a complexity of mental and physical health needs which cannot be safely managed by the person themselves, their family, support provider and/or the Community Mental Health Team.

The service is Monday-Sunday 9am-5pm and based at Aerodrome House in Gosport. Due to the nature of the role it is essential that applicants have a valid driving licence to travel independently across the locality and have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes.

Main duties of the job

To contribute to the provision of intensive home-based treatment, as an alternative to hospital admission, providing a 7-day Monday to Sunday 9-5pm service across the Southeast. To work proactively in accordance with the principles of social inclusion, promoting independence and recovery.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Date posted

02 December 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£27,055 to £32,934 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

348-PSE-C-1048A

Job locations

Aerodrome House

Fratergate Business Park, Aerodrome Road

Gosport

Hampshire

PO13 0GY

Job description

Job responsibilities

*To ensure the provision of intensive home-based treatment, as an alternative to hospital admission.

*To undertake ongoing assessment, implementation and evaluation of mental and physical care needs of a changing caseload of service users within their home environment.

*To work closely with the inpatient units ensuring the effective transition of care across the acute pathway.

*Liaise closely with Community Older Persons Mental Health Teams ensuring the safe discharge of service users following a period of treatment with the Intensive Support Team

*To work as a practitioner in managing a flexible, team-based caseload.

*To mentor, supervise and teach unqualified staff including students.

*To lead the care for a specified group of service users.

*To work in a 7 day a week service.

*To undertake supervision and appraisal for B3 staff.

*To proactively work in accordance with the principles of social inclusion, promoting independence and recovery.

Clinical

*To lead the clinical management of a designated group of service users.

*To allocate work to colleagues, reviewing progress and agreed outcomes.

*To co-ordinate and monitor the delivery of person-centred healthcare to a designated group of service users, using complex clinical decision making where appropriate.

*To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, the CMHT, in assessing and planning care and responding to changes in service users' health.

*To identify and provide appropriate intervention and emotional support for service users.

*To create, develop and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff with other professionals and agencies to enhance recovery.

*To ensure prescribed physical observations are undertaken as follows: blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height and act upon exceptions appropriately.

*To work with service users and carers across a wide age range including those under 65 diagnosed with dementia.

*To work in flexible ways with service users who may be difficult to engage or demonstrate a degree of diagnostic uncertainty.

*To undertake direct work with service users and their families, including formulating care plans, crisis management, and advocacy.

*To be confident in using social inclusion, person centred, and recovery focussed models of care.

Communication

*To accurately record all contacts with service users in case notes in line with the Trust's record keeping policy.

*To ensure effective communication with clients, relatives and carers, visitors, staff and others.

*To ensure that all communication takes place in a manner that is consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.

*To develop measures to improve communications where barriers exist.

*To ensure that consent to intervention or assessment is sought in a manner that is meaningful to the service user.

*To communicate with people in a manner that is consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background.

Quality

*To lead the development, maintenance and monitoring of service standards and

*policies, collect and collate data/ information effectively for the purpose of audit, research and service performance.

*To identify, implement and evaluate, with others, areas for potential service improvement and agree further action.

*To contribute to the maintenance, monitoring and implementation of service standards and policies.

*To promote shared decision making with service user / carer/ relative involvement, as appropriate, in all aspects of their care.

*To contribute and make suggestions to the improvement of services.

*To identify issues of concern at work and alerting appropriate personnel.

*To present a positive image of the team, service and trust.

*To work effectively in own team and as part of the whole organisation.

*To ensure the availability of clinical supervision and preceptorship.

*To ensure structures are in place for effective appraisal, personal development and performance management and audit these regularly.

*To assess and plan care in a manner that is consistent with evidence-based practice, policies and procedures and the management of risk.

Risk Assessment

*To understand the range of risks potentially faced by the service user group.

*To work in partnership with others to identify and assess the nature, location and seriousness of the particular risks.

*To recognise potential crisis situations and act responsively and responsibly, to resolve the situation seeking assistance if required.

*To contribute to the CPA process and support service users, and others, through the process.

*To be aware of the potential for vulnerability and abuse amongst the service users/families and using the local policy to inform appropriate personnel in line with safeguarding vulnerable adults and children and Southern Health FT Policies.

*To follow the Southern Health FT Lone Working Policy ensuring that home visiting, and any autonomous activity is effectively reported and logged.

*To work with other members of the multi-agency team to plan, monitor and review the effectiveness of the risk management plan.

*To take all possible precautions to safeguard the welfare and safety of staff, service users, visitors and the public, by implementing all policies related to health, safety and risk.

*To recognise the range of risks related to infection.

*To take appropriate measures to control infection and minimise associated risk.

Professional/Personal Development

*To receive clinical supervision and participate in appraisal and performance development.

*To adhere to the appropriate code of professional conduct for their professional background.

*To ensure attendance at all Southern Health FT essential training.

*To identify own development needs and set personal development objectives in collaboration with appraiser

*To demonstrate the achievement of competencies through the collection of evidence within a personal portfolio.

*To participate in the orientation and induction of all staff new to the service.

*To contribute to the experience of learners and to ensure delivery of mentorship requirements meeting NMC standards for nursing students.

*To develop an environment that is conducive to learning, promoting staff development and involvement.

*To evaluate the effectiveness of learning and development, informed by learners.

*To take proactive steps to ensure that children and vulnerable adults are kept safe from abuse.

*Maintain professional responsibilities in line with the professional regulation required of your professional body (ie NMC, GSCC, HPC etc).

Management

*To participate in the recruitment, deployment and management of staff in line with Southern Health FT policy.

*To support the B6 and B7 Team Manager where necessary

*To lead the development, maintenance and monitoring of service standards, collect and collate data/ information effectively for the purpose of audit, research and service performance.

*To identify, implement and evaluate, with others, areas for potential service improvement and agrees further action.

*To ensure structures are in place for effective appraisal, personal development and performance management and audit these regularly.

*To assess and plan care in a manner that is consistent with evidence-based practice, policies and procedures and the management of risk.

*To take all possible precautions to safeguard the welfare and safety of staff, service users, visitors and the public, by implementing all policies related to health, safety and risk.

*To adhere to professional confidentiality standards.