Job summary
North West Mental Health Team (PCN 3) which is part of the Community Integrated Mental Health Service are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic RMN who will work well within our MDT. You will need to be skillful in assessing patients who may be presenting to mental health services for the first time with good biopsychosocial assessment skills.
Overall Purpose of the job:
To provide a consistently high standard of mental health care to people in Newham; to assess patients based on sound theory, principles and practice within a nursing context.
- To liaise with other care providers in Newham in order to facilitate a comprehensive service for individual service users.
- To promote and maintain a specific focus and interest in the care of people with mental health needs.
- To liaise and work closely with the teams attached ward in order to promote a seamless service between community and in-patient services.
Main duties of the job
The service mission is to provide a high quality service for people with severe and enduring mental health needs by working in active partnership with service users, carers and with local voluntary and community groups, in addition to statutory services within the Primary Care Network (PCN) Structure in Newham. The 9 Newham PCNs are grouped into 5 CIMH Teams, managed by a North and South service manager. CIMHS is a new service, integrating a range of existing offers, including ELFT's Enhanced Primary Care (EPC) and Assessment and Brief Treatment (ABT), with new provision funded via NHSE early implementer resource, including significant 3rd Sector provision, Peer Support and existing Social Care provision through the council.
The team provides a recovery focused approach, aimed at reducing social isolation, social exclusion and stigma, promoting and enabling the independence of people with mental health support needs, their integration into their local community and improvement in their quality of life. The team demonstrates this through form and function, the triple integration critical to the overall population health approach we aspire to - a seamless physical health and mental health, VCSE/Local Authority/Health and primary care/secondary care offer.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy for further details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy for further details.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Recognised mental health qualification in nursing.
- Current Professional Registration
- Evidence of continual professional development and revalidation of practice
Experience
Essential
- Experience as a community psychiatric nurse.
- Experience in working with diverse agencies in a complex environment
- At least one year's experience of working as a Community Mental Health Nurse in a community setting
- At least three year's experience of working as a RMN in a mental health setting.
- Experience of completing full psycho-social assessments and writing reports.
- Previous experience of acting as a Primary Care Link Worker.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively in English both orally and in writing about a range of complex issues
- Ability to provide structured and focused consultation to GPs
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload and to work proactively under supervision
- Ability to use current IT systems for data entry and analysis
- Ability to assess people who may have serious mental health problems and to advise other colleagues on treatment options.
- To engage with people with serious mental health problems in a holistic manner. To assess their needs, design and deliver appropriate interventions and evaluate the effectiveness of the process.
- Ability to assist and support patients to comply with their treatment plans.
- Ability to develop supportive and trusting professional relationships with patients with mental health problems.
- Ability to form good/effective working relationships with a range of professionals, including GPs, Consultant Psychiatrists, Practice Nurses, Practice Managers,
- Ability to work in a flexible way across a range of different venues
- Ability to work in a culturally sensitive way with patients from a whole variety of backgrounds.
- To work effectively as part of a Team and facilitate productive working relationships
- To manage time, be self-motivated and to work both independently and as part of a team as required.
- To use supervision positively and effectively
- To liaise effectively with other agencies, statutory and non-statutory
- To teach and supervise junior staff and students
- Knowledge and understanding of mental health issues in Primary Care
- Understanding of the Quality and Outcome Framework.
- Up to date knowledge of NICE guidance relating to Serious and common Mental Illnesses.
- Understanding of the key themes of Clinical governance and evidence based practice
- Knowledge and understanding of equal opportunities policies and practice and how they affect staff and service users.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Recognised mental health qualification in nursing.
- Current Professional Registration
- Evidence of continual professional development and revalidation of practice
Experience
Essential
- Experience as a community psychiatric nurse.
- Experience in working with diverse agencies in a complex environment
- At least one year's experience of working as a Community Mental Health Nurse in a community setting
- At least three year's experience of working as a RMN in a mental health setting.
- Experience of completing full psycho-social assessments and writing reports.
- Previous experience of acting as a Primary Care Link Worker.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively in English both orally and in writing about a range of complex issues
- Ability to provide structured and focused consultation to GPs
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload and to work proactively under supervision
- Ability to use current IT systems for data entry and analysis
- Ability to assess people who may have serious mental health problems and to advise other colleagues on treatment options.
- To engage with people with serious mental health problems in a holistic manner. To assess their needs, design and deliver appropriate interventions and evaluate the effectiveness of the process.
- Ability to assist and support patients to comply with their treatment plans.
- Ability to develop supportive and trusting professional relationships with patients with mental health problems.
- Ability to form good/effective working relationships with a range of professionals, including GPs, Consultant Psychiatrists, Practice Nurses, Practice Managers,
- Ability to work in a flexible way across a range of different venues
- Ability to work in a culturally sensitive way with patients from a whole variety of backgrounds.
- To work effectively as part of a Team and facilitate productive working relationships
- To manage time, be self-motivated and to work both independently and as part of a team as required.
- To use supervision positively and effectively
- To liaise effectively with other agencies, statutory and non-statutory
- To teach and supervise junior staff and students
- Knowledge and understanding of mental health issues in Primary Care
- Understanding of the Quality and Outcome Framework.
- Up to date knowledge of NICE guidance relating to Serious and common Mental Illnesses.
- Understanding of the key themes of Clinical governance and evidence based practice
- Knowledge and understanding of equal opportunities policies and practice and how they affect staff and service users.
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).
