Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

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Job summary

Here at Defence Primary Health Care (DPHC), we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel!

We are looking for a friendly and well organised Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse to join our team at Department of Community Mental Health (DCMH) in Old Medical Centre in RAF Leeming.

If you meet the job specification then please apply.

Benefits:

Access to NHS Pension
Free Parking
Inclusive Working Environment

This Full Time position offers 37.5 hours per week. Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.

Main duties of the job

The Community Mental Health Practitioner will work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team to provide a specialised/occupational mental health service for all Service and entitled personnel within the DCMH area of responsibility (AOR) and the DPHC Region as required. The post holder will have experience of working in adult community mental healthcare.

The successful candidate will provide a rapid, timely and high-quality mental health service to all patients referred to the Department of Community Mental Health for assessment and treatment of mental health problems and implementing changes as and when necessary.

About us

Our success depends on our people our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.

Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.

In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.

If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.

Date posted

15 December 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£33,706 to £40,588 a year (Pro Rata for Part Time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share

Reference number

K0003-22-2114

Job locations

Old Medical Centre

Building 20, RAF Leeming

Northallerton

DL7 9NJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties include but are not limited to:

Receiving, appraising and advising on the direct referrals for mental health problems from relevant General Practitioners/Medical Officers (GP/MO).

Providing initial assessment and formulation of the mental health and treatment needs for referred patients, planning, implementing and evaluating care with a high level of autonomy.

Acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in areas relating to mental health and in the promotion of psychological well-being to patients, professional colleagues, commanders and where appropriate unit personnel.

Maintaining and evaluate data on the outcome of clinical and educational work.

Initiating administrative advice on mental health management of service personnel on caseload to Unit Commanders and Medical Officers.

Maintaining professional knowledge and registration and/or accreditation in line with the code of conduct and standards of their United Kingdom (UK) professional regulatory body.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of Duties and Responsibilities.

The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.

If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Failure to provide evidence of your immunity may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.

To be eligible to be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.

There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.

The selection at sift stage will be based on your application. At interview, you will be tested against the following

Civil Service behaviours:

Leadership (Mandatory)

Communicating and Influencing

Working Together

Delivering at Pace

NHS Technical skills:

NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning

NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment

At the interview a standard case study will be supplied, for formulation and discussion. Re: What step 2 intervention would be delivered.

Please ensure the required skills, qualifications and memberships are demonstrated in your application.

We encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply. Please see the attached further information document for full details.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, <a href=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans/>Making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans</a>

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.