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Community Psychiatric Nurse | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum (pro rata for part time) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 August 2024 |
| Location: | Kirkby in Ashfield, NG17 7AG |
| Company: | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6465799/186-536-24-MH-B |
Summary
This post is eligible for a Golden Hello payment of £2,750 for new starters who are external to the Trust. This is payable in 3 instalments over a 2 year period. This payment is only eligible to new starters who do not already hold a contract of employment with the Trust and have not been an employee of the Trust in the previous 3 years. This post also includes paid enhancements for unsocial hours working during night, weekends and bank holidays.
The Mental Health Division of Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust comprises of three directorates; Adult Mental Health, Mental Health Services for Older People and Specialist Services. More than 2,800 dedicated staff provide vital and integral healthcare services for our patients in a variety of settings, ranging from community through to acute wards, covering a vast geographical area.
We’re investing heavily in our staff, facilities and patient care. As we move into this new chapter, we need a strong, motivated and compassionate workforce to reflect our core values of Honesty, Compassion, Trust, Respect and Teamwork. There has never been a better time to join our growing team.
We have exciting opportunities across different specialities and services, with an emphasis on career development and progression. We want to help our staff reach their full potential, and are committed to providing the support, skills and development needed to succeed.
The Intensive Home Treatment Team (IHTT) provides an intensive multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention to people in urgent need of mental health support allowing receipt of specialist care in their own homes.
As a Band 6 CPN within the IHTT your main duties will be:-
To provide a defined level of specialist assessment and access to interventions for a diverse patient group and their families under the care programme approach, who present with significant mental health conditions and people with a dementia diagnosis.
To provide realistic timely or occasionally intensive support to patients within their own community setting.
To demonstrate active clinical and managerial leadership skills within the team, providing education and supervision to junior staff members and other professionals.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Band 6, 37.5 hours per week, over a 7 day period. The service working hours are 08:00-20:00 7 days a week, 365 days per year.
Shift times are: 08:00-16:00 and 12:00-20:00.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 Mental Health Nurse to join our MHSOP Intensive Home Treatment Team (IHTT) within the Mansfield and Ashfield locality, We provide assessment, treatment and support for service users of any age with a diagnosis of a dementia or people over the age of 65 with a mental health condition.
The service is for patients experiencing mental health conditions or a dementia diagnosis. The team provides specialist assessment, therapy & treatment, working to an individually tailored care plan to adopt a flexible, patient-centred approach enabling the older person with mental health difficulties to engage in services available to them and to lead as independent a life as possible.
Delivered in people’s own homes within the community, the service makes every effort to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital and facilitates the opportunity for people to return home following a hospital admission or period in residential care.
There will be an expectation that the team will work closely with current Intensive Home Treatment Teams (IHTT’s) in the locality and also with the CRHT’s.
There will be an expectation that the Band 6 Clinician will be the duty worker for the team.
You will provide Community Mental Health Nursing input into the service. You will also provide specialist assessments and provide support and supervision to junior team members.
You will be an experienced Registered Mental Health Nurse and have current NMC registration. You will have proven post qualification experience and have experience of working with this client group and of multi-disciplinary working. You will have a sound knowledge of risk assessment and be able to demonstrate sound evidence-based practice.
A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Jul 2024
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