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About
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and physical health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving 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.
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in 2016, and were proud to be rated ‘Outstanding’ again in 2018. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
What Next?
If you like the sound of ELFT, don’t waste a moment. We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!
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Community Mental Health Nurse
Accepting applications until: 29-Dec-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 29-Dec-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- The Lawns Resource Centre
- Address
- The Baulk
- Town
- Biggleswade
- Postcode
- SG18 0PT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Mental Health
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving 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 overview
Advert
- Undertake specialist and comprehensive assessment of needs
- Co-ordinate care for a defined caseload
- Undertake physical health assessments and provide or support access to appropriate intervention.
- Practice within professional guidelines and promote professional practice in clinical area.
- Ensure high standard and accurate verbal/written communication about patient care with all team members.
- Put service users at the centre of everything achieved, taking responsibility for the development and delivery of evidence based practice, ensuring that it supports and reflects service user individual needs, Trust objectives and professional guidance.
- Work to values that include self-determination, empowerment and choice for service users.
- Work in partnership with service users and empower them to draw on their individual strengths and assets, and set goals they would like to achieve in all aspects of their lives.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To be responsible for an identified community caseload, ensuring high standard of professional conduct to comply with best practice and professional accountabilities.
- To promote a service user focused service.
- Participate in audits and survey relevant to the team.
- To participate in development of new policies and procedures as required.
- Ensure that clients receive a culturally competent service.
- To co-ordinate the day-to-day activity and manage the workload of the Team.
- To ensure the legal requirements of the Mental Health Act (1983) and subsequent amendments are adhered to
- To ensure the legal requirements of the Care Act 2014 other legislation
- To establish and maintain good relationships with service users, carers and voluntary sector colleagues.
- To provide best evidence practice to service users which complies with legislation, policies and procedures and relevant quality, governance and local and national guidelines.
- Liaise with General Practice and Primary Care colleagues to promote partnership working.
- Ensuring that the local demographics are taken into consideration for service provision and improvement
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified Mental Health Nurse Registered with the NMC or/ and Qualified Learning Disability Nurse
- Evidence of Continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Qualified Mental Health Nurse
- Educated to Degree Level
- Mentor
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post qualification experience in Mental Health Services
Desirable criteria
- Post qualification experience working with and supporting Older People
- Experience of working within an NHS/Local Authority environment
- Experience of working in a Community Mental Health Team
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act, the Care Act, the Mental Capacity Act and other social care and mental health legislation and guidance
- Good assessment skills and ability to produce risk assessments and compile care plans in collaboration with service users and carers
- Good IT skills with experience of working with service user data systems (ie RiO)
- Highly developed organisational skills with the ability to prioritise your own workload
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- provision where appropriate. Assessment skills and the ability to compile care plans in partnership with service users, carers and others
- Assertiveness and engagement with other professionals, able to make reasoned arguments and represent own professional views and perspectives.
- Decision -making and problem solving, able to adopt creative and flexible approaches to meet the needs of service users
- Highly developed organisational skills, able to prioritise workload and delegate effectively
- Well -developed communication skills, able to communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences
- Mental Health Practice Skills and an understanding of CPA and the NSF standards.
- IT skills, experience of working with service user data systems
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Team player, able to negotiate and lead other professionals whilst considering competing views and agendas
- Able to work independently, with initiative, but to seek appropriate guidance and supervision when required.
- Self-motivated, committed and open to new ideas and experiences
- Committed to equal opportunities, and equality and diversity issues
- Anti-discriminatory & antioppressive practice
- Committed nursing values, able to recognise and deliver caring, compassionate, respectful and inclusive services.
- A commitment to leadership & change management
Additional Requirments
Essential criteria
- Car driver essential and be able to travel between Trust sites throughout the County
- Full driving licence
- Flexible working according to the needs of the service and to support work/life balance and improving working lives.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Carla Lewinton
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01767 224181
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