Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Luton Community Mental Health Hub-South based in Charter House, Luton for Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse.
Roles : Community Mental Health Nurse - Luton
Date : 08/07/2024
Address : Charter house, Alma Street, Luton LU1 2PJ
Time : 9:00am – 1:00pm* (Registration is required to be interviewed on the day)
*Registration for interviews is 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM. Failure to register during this time will make you unable to partake in same day interview held from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
Main duties of the job
You will work as an autonomous practitioner within a dedicated Multidisciplinary Hub. If you are committed, relish new challenges and strives for excellence, this post is for you.
You will hold a caseload and work within the principles of the agreed model of care for the service as laid down in the Operational Policy.
This will involve the assessment, care planning, implementation and evaluation of the care provided and will liaise with all agencies involved with the clients. The role includes being part of a duty rota, screening referrals and participating in Quality Improvement (QI) projects within the Team.
You will also take part in the Transformation Agenda in line with The NHS Long Term Plan, which describes:
New community-based offer which will include access to psychological therapies, improved physical health care, employment support, personalised and trauma-informed care, medicines management and support for self-harm and co-existing substance use and proactive work to address racial disparities.
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
Local areas will be supported to redesign and reorganise core community mental health teams to move towards a new place-based, multidisciplinary service across health and social care aligned with primary care networks.
Please see the JD and PS attached to the vacancy for more information.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
1. Registered Nurse (Mental/ Learning Disability Nurse
Experience
Desirable criteria
2. Working with people with mental health problems/learning disabilities within acute/ forensic setting
3. Managing challenging and aggressive behavior.
4. Working within a multidisciplinary team environment
5. Experience of working in a multi cultural environment and knowledge of methods to develop culturally sensitive practice
6. Experience of setting therapeutic boundaries with patients who exhibit challenging and high risk behaviours, that require advanced interventions to enable effective deescalation
7. Experience of working with people who have personality disorders
8. Experience of using creative and sophisticated interventions with patients in distress who use self harm as a means of communication
9. Experience of racial awareness/diversity training and the ability to operationalise this.
Ability and Skills
Essential criteria
10. Good verbal and written communication skills appropriate to the needs of patients within a learning disabilities service
11. Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care appropriate to the needs of with learning disabilities patients using evidence based approaches.
12. Understanding of de-escalation in the context of acute or Forensic nursing
13. Able to work systematically and objectively in an environment with patients who can present high risk behaviours
14. Able to manage time so that deadlines are me
15. Ability to recognize stress
16. Ability to work as part of a team.
17. Able to utilize a range of therapeutic interventions and frameworks to improve practice and service delivery
18. Able to communicate with patients who are distressed, angry and have difficulty in communicating this.
19. Able to work sensitively and compassionately with patients
20. Emotional Intelligence: To understand the antecedents or factors that may have contributed to the patients current presentation
21. Emotional Intelligence: To understand how your own experiences or approach may impact on others
22. Emotional Intelligence: To demonstrate emotional intelligence and the ability to learn from situations or experiences in yours and others lives
23. Emotional Intelligence: To have the ability to S/I Page 7 of 7 understand your own and others feelings
24. To be able to empathise with a genuine awareness of why patients present or behave in a certain way
Knowledge
Essential criteria
25. Care Programme Approach
26. NMC Code of Conduct
27. Current Developments in nursing Clinical supervision
28. Single Assessment Process
29. Essence of Care
30. Care of Mentally Disordered Offenders
31. Knowledge of risk assessment, ability to operationalize and teach others
32. Knowledge of current learning theories, emotional intelligence framework, transactional analysis and reflective practice.
33. Current professional developments in learning disabilities care.
34. A clear understanding of user involvement initiatives within secure settings