Registered and Experienced Mental Health Band 6 Nurse

Job summary

We are looking for a highly motivated, experienced and innovative Band 6 mental Health Practitioner to join our CMHT. Meadows CMHT is a close, lively, dynamic, nurturing, and supportive team with excellent peer support and regular supervision. You will manage a reasonable-sized caseload of service users, covering shared care and carrying out assessments. You will be involved in training, mentoring and supervising new and unregistered staff as well as providing excellent front-line clinical care. Meadows CMHT provides compassionate, kind and recovery-focused care to our patients, carers and their families. The successful candidates will have sound clinical skills, administration and IT skills including be able to type. You will also need excellent assessment and communication skills. There will be lots of shadowing/training opportunities to introduce you to the care coordination role and you will need to work alongside other agencies to promote holistic recovery-focused care. Meadows CMHT have regular weekly training slots which are psychologically informed so that our interventions are meaningful.

Successful applicants will need a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work use.

Main duties of the job

To be an active member of the multi-disciplinary team supporting the assessment and care planning for our service users. To act as care co-ordinator to an agreed caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness. To undertake ongoing review, treatment and evaluation for service users known to the service. To support the delivery of therapeutic interventions either individually or within a group setting. Support the transformation of the team to deliver local evidence-based care. To co-ordinate the care of an agreed caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness. To formulate care plans in line with identified need with service users, carers and other agencies. To provide recovery focused therapeutic interventions in line with the agreed care plan and risk assessment. To assess risk, develop risk management plans, review and adjust in line with the service user's needs. To work in collaboration with service users as experts in their own care, promoting the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation, which value and empower the service user. To use tools which promote user empowerment (my crisis and safety plan).

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse, Social Worker, Mental Health Practitioner or O.T.
• Computer skills.

Desirable

• Psychological therapies training - CBT, ECS.
• Completion of in-depth safeguarding.
• Knowledge of high-cost placements.

Experience

Essential

• Commitment to lifelong learning.
• Ability to communicate effectively with people who have difficulty understanding.
• Good facilitation skills.
• Evidence of effective interpersonal skills (active listening, building empathy).
• Ability to organise self and others to achieve tasks.
• Able to co-facilitate group work.
• Working knowledge of the application of the appropriate professional Code of Conduct.

Desirable

• Knowledge of risk assessments and outcome measures.
• Facilitating group and/or project work.
• Able to carry out supervision of staff.

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Providing compassionate, safe care.
• Listening to each other.
• Doing the right thing.
• Appreciating each other.
• Delivering quality.
• Communicating clearly.
• Supporting each other.
• Working as a team.
• Building relationships.
• Making things happen.
• Acting with honesty and integrity.
• Respecting each other.
• Taking responsibility.
• Getting the best from our resources.

Desirable

• Willingness to complete studies as required to meet service delivery.