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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
About
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex and Kent.
We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.
Mental Health Nurse - Memory Service
Closed for applications on: 5-Jul-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 5-Jul-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Memory Service, Red Oak Lodge.
- Address
- Red Oak Lodge
- Town
- 17 Thorne Close, Langthorne, Leytonstone
- Postcode
- E11 4HU
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9 -5)
Salary
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Nursing
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Mental Health Nurse to join Waltham Forest Memory Service.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate that they can work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team using evidence-based approaches in the delivery of interventions. This includes key working a caseload of service users under supervision from the senior nursing team.
We are seeking candidates who have experience of working in mental health settings who have a keen interest in working with older adults, are innovative, dynamic and are looking to develop their clinical skills. They will be able to demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills and exhibit behaviours that reflect NELFT vision and values.
The successful candidate will receive support, managerial and professional supervision from the line manager in the service. Peer support and CPD opportunities are also available and actively encouraged. The post is a substantive position and would be a developing role for a newly qualified band 5 precepte.
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Key Responsibilities:
Providing assessments and supporting diagnosis for people with Mental Health problems
- Comprehensive cognitive assessments in the Service Users home
- Working effectively with the MDT
- Facilitating Mental Health practitioner led groups in the department. To encourage and develop teamwork within the team.
- Working effectively with our partners e.g., Local authority, Alzheimer’s Society and Age UK
- Excellent knowledge of the Mental health act and Mental Capacity Act
- To ensure a safe working environment
- To work with the Team in maintain excellent standards.
- Proactively collect feedback from Service Users and their Carers.
- Cover other teams/services, where necessary, which may require working on other sites.
- Education and training for the MDT or junior staff.
- Prioritising the weekly MDT meeting, ensuring the quality of the meeting is maintained.
- always Maintaining confidentiality
- Working therapeutically with your Service Users and carers promoting social inclusion and recovery
Working for our organisation
COVID-19 Vaccination
We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement – London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436 per annum pro rata).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Providing assessments and supporting diagnosis for people with Mental Health problems
- Comprehensive cognitive assessments in the Service Users home
- Working effectively with the MDT
- Facilitating Mental Health practitioner led groups in the department. To encourage and develop teamwork within the team.
- Working effectively with our partners e.g., Local authority, Alzheimer’s Society and Age UK
- Excellent knowledge of the Mental health act and Mental Capacity Act
- To ensure a safe working environment
- To work with the Team in maintain excellent standards.
- Proactively collect feedback from Service Users and their Carers.
- Cover other teams/services, where necessary, which may require working on other sites.
- Education and training for the MDT or junior staff.
- Prioritising the weekly MDT meeting, ensuring the quality of the meeting is maintained.
- always Maintaining confidentiality
- Working therapeutically with your Service Users and carers promoting social inclusion and recovery
Clinical Skills
- To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
- The post holder will have Current Effective Status on the relevant Professional Body i.e. NMC.
- Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses workshops, study and in house training programmes.
- To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients
- To be able to assess and develop plans of care to meet the needs of clients under Memory Service
- To make a full assessment of a person’s health and well -being, related mental health and social care needs and risk factors.
- To carry out specialist cognitive assessments such as ACE-111, MOCA
- To ensure that assessments and care plans reflect the psychological, emotional, social care, treatment, intervention, and risk management needs appropriate to adults with memory loss.
- To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
- Act as an educator for clients and carers. Advise on issues of mental health so as to generate a positive approach to health and strengthen the service user’s capacity to manage illness, symptoms and crisis.
- To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
- To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.
Leadership
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- To participate in the development of an effective team and the development of productive working relationships throughout the Trust.
- To actively promote integrated health professional working internally and externally.
- To facilitate the development of a positive and supportive team culture.
- To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the Trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols, and guidelines.
- To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance agenda.
- To advise, encourage and share knowledge utilising the latest research and practice development, through literature and peer reviews.
- Administration:
- To be computer literate.
- To ensure accurate recording of actions, and updating patient’s records, maintaining confidentiality at all times.
- To take part, and assist, in the planning and administration relating to day to day running of the caseload.
Communication:
- To have a wide range of knowledge in approaches to communicating and managing patient care.
- To be able to effectively communicate with colleagues, peers, senior managers, and clinical leads within the Trust.
- To be able to communicate complex patient related information facilitating positive outcomes and ensuring collaborative working.
- Participate in the review and development of clinical policies and identifies improvements to service provision.
Training
- To act as mentor to students, providing effective education, facilitating their development and promoting high standards of nursing care.
- Ensure students are actively supported to enable them to achieve their learning needs.
- To ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning in self and others.
- To undertake, and assist, in the planning of own mandatory training and workshops.
- To undertake a regular appraisal, developing a personal development plan that includes clinical competencies reflecting the health needs of the local population and relates to Trust strategy.
- To support new staff and their integration within the team.
- To support training as part of the role including changes to professional development and implementation of new policies and guidelines.
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
- A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
- A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
- Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
- Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.
Supporting our Armed Forces
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [email protected].
Correspondence with us
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.
In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
Desirable criteria
- Experience in working with Memory Service/Older Adult
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in working in Memory Service
Desirable criteria
- Experience in administering standardised cognitive assessments
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of National Dementia Stratergy
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of NICE guidelines in Dementia
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Wazir Khan
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03005551270
No longer accepting applications
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