Job summary
Southern Health Foundation Trust has exciting opportunity for an experienced CAMHS Community Nurse.
Eastleigh CAMHS is a Community CAMHS team within Hampshire CAMHS, and is made up of a wide range of professionals. We offer a supportive and engaging environment, with opportunities for learning constantly offered, regular supervision is in place, and peer support is readily available. We try to focus on wellbeing, have regular team days and time, and value the role of the Nurse highly. Nurses are supported across teams with their CPD, learning opportunities, and this year have had a specific Nurses awayday, which was very well received by those who attended.
The role of Community Nurse is to work in partnership with young people and families in the designated care group with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives. They will demonstrate an understanding of clinical interventions relevant the care group to include education, care plans and discharge planning, working closely with carers, families and partner agencies to facilitate this. The post holder will work at all times to promote the safety and the well-being of children, young people and their families/carers. The post holder will assess, plan and implement care, and provide specialist nursing advice and carry out specialist nursing procedures. They will provide clinical supervision to staff and students and act as a mentor for student nurses.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner who will carry continuing responsibility for a defined caseload of service users by undertaking the following duties:
*To undertake assessments of individuals and their families in the designated care group with complex health presentations, including those service users presenting with higher levels of risk. To develop alongside the service user their care plan.
*To offer specialist nursing assessment and advice where required.
*To assess and manage on going risks as identified during the assessment, ensuring that this is done in collaboration with the service user and carers. To regularly review risk factors and make changes to the management of them as necessary.
*To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust nursing strategy.
*To ensure that clinical practice is evidence based and consistent with relevant NICE guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.
*To provide supervision of junior staff and trainees where appropriate.
*To act within the NMC code of conduct at all times.
About us
Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.
With a workforce of more than 7000 and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we're committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities, whilst placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.
We are currently working closely with other NHS Trusts to combine all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services, with the plan to create a new larger, more integrated and accessible organisation.
The transformation will happen in stages; Hampshire CAMHS, part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust joined Southern Health in February 2024, with Isle of Wight NHS Trust mental health and community services transitioning across in May 2024. The final combination of Southern Health and Solent NHS Trust services is expected in late 2024, when our new organisation, to be known as Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, will be formed.
Our new Trust will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, making healthcare across the county more accessible, as well as offering staff more opportunities for career development, training and partnership working.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare in Hampshire.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
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
1. Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role
2. Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
3. Evidence of continuous professional development