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Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
About
We provide NHS care and treatment for people living in south east England. Our mental health services provide care and treatment for people with conditions such as psychosis, depression, anxiety, dementia and personality disorder. Our vision is to provide outstanding care and treatment you can be confident in.
Community Psychiatric Nurse - Incentives Apply
Accepting applications until: 31-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 31-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Drayton House
- Address
- Drayton Lane
- Town
- Chichester
- Postcode
- PO20 2EW
- Major / Minor Region
- West Sussex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Mental Health
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
Community Mental Health Nurse – Band 6
We have a great opportunity for a full-time band 6 nurse to work in the Intensive Support Element of the Dementia & Older People’s Mental Health Team based in Chichester. This post will sit within our multidisciplinary community older person's team and will work alongside our lead practitioners to deliver interventions to those people who have more complex or intensive needs. We aim to help people to remain safe and well at home thus enabling them to maintain the relationships that are important to them.
Our service is in the process of moving away from a more traditional model to adopt the follow me care principles advocated in NHS England’s new Community Mental Healthcare Strategy. We are confident that this approach will help us to meet the growing demands for services whilst continuing to provide good outcomes for people.
The service operates Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.
The successful candidate will join a friendly, highly-skilled and enthusiastic multi professional team. We will take a keen interest in helping you to develop the skills important to this role and the post-holder will be encouraged to develop special interests and expertise in line with service and team objectives.
The ability to travel across sites is essential.
Advert
The role of this post is to actively engage those requiring an increased level of support with the aim of keeping people within their home and maintaining their wellbeing and independence as far as possible. We are looking for individuals who are dynamic, compassionate, good communicator who are able to demonstrate a holistic and person-centred approach to their work.
You will also need to be able to work cohesively with other services both within our Trust, and with other partner agencies. We follow a multi-disciplinary approach and within that context you will manage a caseload of older adults.
Working for our organisation
We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
All our clinicians are given opportunities to develop and grow as professionals in the organisation. We provide regular supervision, a supportive working environment and access to training opportunities to assist you to realise your potential.
This Trust offers the following;
- Excellent starting salary
- NHS Pension contributions
- 27 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
- Flexible Working patterns
- Child care vouchers
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- NHS Discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme
We'd love you to join our organisation that is rated good overall and outstanding for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical
- To contribute to the management of a team caseload of clients with complex needs, using CPA principles, evidence based/client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions, which will be delivered in the Dementia and Older Adults Mental Health Service.
- To support/manage a team caseload and attend relevant MDT meetings
- To regularly support and cover the duty rota
- To provide specialist assessment and intervention as part of a multi-disciplinary approach, with specific responsibilities regarding the care pathway
- To provide risk screening and assessment as well as risk management planning
- To contribute to and facilitate evidence-based assessments and individual and group interventions
- To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Service
- To regularly share and supervise students on practice placement, and junior staff as appropriate
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name
Candice Douglas
Job title
Team Leader
Email address
Telephone number
01243 791833
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Maximum score 6
· Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role
· Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
· Evidence of continuous professional development
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
Maximum score 20
· Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
· Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
· Experience of supervising staff
· Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
· Experience of working consultatively with professionals
· Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
· Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies
· Experience of working within the CPA process
· Understanding of clinical governance
· Previous experience of working in the community
Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.
We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children’s social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.
Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.
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 Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role
- Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
- Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
- Experience of supervising staff
- Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
- Experience of working consultatively with professionals
- Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
- Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies
- Experience of working within the CPA process
- Previous experience of working in the community
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Candice Douglas
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03003040681
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