Job summary
Are you a Registered Nursing Associate with training in Venepuncture and experience of physical health checks, with a motivation to work in mental health?
Would you thrive in a role where you work with a complex caseload?
If so, our Band 4 Physical Healthcare Worker role in our Neighbourhood Mental Health Team may be the role for you!
Mid Sussex ATS are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and skilled Nursing Associate with experience in venepuncture. It will be your responsibility to coordinate and undertake physical health assessments for our Client Group with support from band 6 staff and medical staff. This will involve visiting and carrying out assessments in the community for hard to engage patients (with another member of staff). This post is for 37.5 hours per week. Your role may also involve other tasks around supporting and building relationships with patients, depending on your experience.
Main duties of the job
We are a well-staffed multi-disciplinary team made up of Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, a Psychologist, Psychiatrists, Support Workers, Peer Support Worker and a Pharmacy Technician. We operate as a team within a creative and flexible approach and provide shared responsibility of risk management to support our service users who have a primary diagnosis of psychosis. We run groups for service users and has a biopsychosocial approach to support.
Your role will involve supporting Lead Practitioners with their complex caseload, primarily around physical health checks. Your role may, at times, also involve undertaking duty tasks including supporting patients in crisis, with medication related matters and practical support to service users by building up long term relationships with them.
About us
The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex.
We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, recent staff survey results told us that 82% recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Key staff survey results include:o 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at worko 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their teamo 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for the full details on the role. See below for further contact details;
Lilibet Hill
Team Leader
Lilibet.hill@SPFT.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for the full details on the role. See below for further contact details;
Lilibet Hill
Team Leader
Lilibet.hill@SPFT.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
- Educated to a minimum level 5 Foundation degree level specific to nursing associate practice
- Care Certificate
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Minimum of three years working with people with mental health problems (A/I)
- Ability to listen effectively and communicate at all levels (I)
- Basic written communication skills to enable completion of records etc (A)
- Empathy, compassion and patience (I)
- Willingness to be flexible in meeting service users needs (I)
- Ability to create innovative solutions to help empower service users (A,I)
- Ability to work unsupervised in a range of settings. (A,I)
- Ability to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers. (A,I)
- A keenness to make a positive contribution to improving the quality of life for people with mental health problems. (A,I)
- Ability to acknowledge diversity and promote antidiscriminatory practice/equal opportunities (A,I)
- Ability to provide practical support with daily living activities (A/I)
- An ability to act calmly in emergencies and to respond in a professional manner to stressful and challenging behaviour. (I)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
- Educated to a minimum level 5 Foundation degree level specific to nursing associate practice
- Care Certificate
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Minimum of three years working with people with mental health problems (A/I)
- Ability to listen effectively and communicate at all levels (I)
- Basic written communication skills to enable completion of records etc (A)
- Empathy, compassion and patience (I)
- Willingness to be flexible in meeting service users needs (I)
- Ability to create innovative solutions to help empower service users (A,I)
- Ability to work unsupervised in a range of settings. (A,I)
- Ability to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers. (A,I)
- A keenness to make a positive contribution to improving the quality of life for people with mental health problems. (A,I)
- Ability to acknowledge diversity and promote antidiscriminatory practice/equal opportunities (A,I)
- Ability to provide practical support with daily living activities (A/I)
- An ability to act calmly in emergencies and to respond in a professional manner to stressful and challenging behaviour. (I)
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).
