Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic Community mental health nurse to join our friendly multi-disciplinary team.
We're able to offer an individualised program of support and professional development to work through with the encouragement from an experienced team. We encourage Newly qualified professionals to apply.
You will hold a caseload and undertake the role of care coordinator for those with varied complex mental health and social care needs. Provide assessment and specific interventions to meet the needs of service users, their carers, and families. Be a flexible practitioner who enjoys new challenges in meeting the developing needs of the service and service users, forgingprofessional working relationships with multi-agencies.
Benefits
Reallocation package and Golden Hello (T&C)
Career development and training opportunities, such as CBT, DBT, Nurse prescribing, family therapy etc.
As a registered professional you will automatically become a member of our Academy of Clinical Excellence (ACE) which has a specific focus on the professional development and career progression of our nurses and Allied Health Professionals
Pay Enhancements 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays, 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
Excellent pension
Cycle to work scheme
Salary sacrifice car scheme
Wellbeing programme
Main duties of the job
To act as care co-ordinator to an agreed caseload of service users with severe and
enduring mental illness.
To undertake ongoing assessment, treatment and evaluation for service users known
to the service.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To lead the clinical management of a designated group of service users.
To allocate work to junior 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 in assessing and planning care and
responding to changes in service users' health.
To identify and ensure the provision of the necessary physical care to service users, to
help them complete daily living activities, ie: personal hygiene, diet and fluid intake,
clothing and laundry, manual handling, personal environment, manual handling,
elimination, maintaining rest and sleep and activity, physical observations.
To act in a manner to respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual
beliefs, actively supporting the individual to fulfil these.
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 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To lead the clinical management of a designated group of service users.
To allocate work to junior 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 in assessing and planning care and
responding to changes in service users' health.
To identify and ensure the provision of the necessary physical care to service users, to
help them complete daily living activities, ie: personal hygiene, diet and fluid intake,
clothing and laundry, manual handling, personal environment, manual handling,
elimination, maintaining rest and sleep and activity, physical observations.
To act in a manner to respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual
beliefs, actively supporting the individual to fulfil these.
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 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse, Social
- Worker, Mental Health
- Practitioner or O.T.
- Computer skills
- Significant post qualifying
- experience
- Mentorship course
- Clinical supervision training
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse, Social
- Worker, Mental Health
- Practitioner or O.T.
- Computer skills
- Significant post qualifying
- experience
- Mentorship course
- Clinical supervision training
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
