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Main area: Mental Health Nursing
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Service works across Monday - Sunday)
Job ref: 333-G-HM-0695
Site: Woodland Centre, adjacent to Hillingdon Hospital/ Riverside Centre
Town: Uxbridge
Salary: £42,939 - £50,697 per annum inc HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/01/2025 23:59
Job overview
A fantastic and exciting opportunity has arisen within Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse to join our Hillingdon Older Adult Home Treatment Service (HTS).
The post is full-time, 37.5 hours per week across 7 days and the service hours are Monday to Sunday 9am-5pm. We also have flexible working policies to support individuals achieve the work – life balance that their situation might require.
The HTS is a needs-led service and work with service users that are in crisis, are physically frail and have a mental health problem. Caseloads are a mixture of service users with long and enduring mental health issues, acute mental health issues or issues relating to memory loss who are in crisis.
The HTS is a multidisciplinary team; comprising of mental health nurses, a psychiatrist and a support worker. The team is supported by a good administrative system and offers an excellent work environment. The team also works closely with our colleagues at OACMHT, the older adult acute inpatient ward and the wards within the Riverside Centre at Hillingdon Hospital and the Memory Service. The team has good partnership working with local non-statutory Dementia services.
Main duties of the job
The role will have a focus on triage, assessment and care planning for older adults in Hillingdon who have been referred into the Crisis pathway. Working as part of the Older Adult Home Treatment Service the role offers intensive support and treatment to patients in the community in the acute phase of a mental health crisis as an alternative to inpatient care. The role will also act as gatekeepers to admissions onto the acute inpatient ward and to support early discharge from hospital.
The HTS works with Older adults covering the Hillingdon borough and is based in Woodland Centre in Hillingdon. Hillingdon is home to a diverse population and contexts, from urban to semi-rural. Situated in North West London, it has good transport links with the rest of London and surrounding counties and is home to a wide range of social, leisure, and sporting opportunities available to people working and living in the area.
Working for our organisation
What will you get?
* Regular individual supervision and reflective practice groups
* Working within a dynamic team with visibility of the Senior Management Team
* Access to London Leadership Academy Coaching and Mentorship programmes
* Opportunities for flexible working and some remote working.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
What we are looking for?
1. Post registration experience working with adults/ older adults with mental health problems and experience of working with adults in a community setting and/or crisis service.
2. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a sound understanding of current government legislation, demonstrate the ability to work as part of a MDT and provide high quality care with evidence based therapeutic assessments, interventions and completion of accurate and timely documentation.
3. Specialist skills in mental health assessment, risk assessment, safety planning and social care assessments.
4. Car owner/driver would be ideal but it is about the person and we can work around this within the team.
Person specification
Qualifications
* RMN-Diploma/Degree
* Evidence of continued professional development in post-registration qualifications
Experience
* Post-registration experience in a range of clinical areas
* Experience of working as member of a Multi-disciplinary team
* Experience of managing/supervision of staff.
* Experience of working in a community setting and/or Crisis service.
* Experience of working with dementia
* Experience of working with older adults
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
* Knowledge of CPA, Risk Assessment and Risk Management Processes
* Knowledge and understanding of the needs and rights of service users and their carers.
* Knowledge of ethical/legal requirements within mental health nursing.
* Knowledge and understanding of legislation relating to the care of Older Adults with Mental Health problems in the community
* Ability to assess complex risk and produce care plans to manage this
* Ability to take responsibility for managing a caseload
* Ability to manage complex decision-making situations.
* Ability to organize and prioritize own workload.
* Previous experience of audit and research.
* Ability to work effectively in stressful and emotionally charged situations
* Knowledge of NHS IT systems
* Effective communication skills both verbally and through written reports.
* Effective leadership skills
* Ability to supervise junior staff and students
* Teaching and assessing skills.
* Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page.
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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.
Name: Suzanne Smith
Job title: Older Adult Mental Health Service Manager
Email address: suzanne.smith10@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01895488998
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