Employer: Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: The Larches, Farnham Road Hospital
Town: Guildford
Salary: £39,205 - £47,084 Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/02/2025 23:59
Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse
Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for? This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
Job overview
My job makes better lives by ensuring an accessible, non-stigmatising, localised service that contributes to the continuing care and rehabilitation of people within the Guildford and Waverley locality with established mental health illness/dementia living in their home and/or a care home.
The successful candidate will work within a community mental health team or a care home pathway based in Guildford and Waverley area. The Post Holder will act as Care Coordinator/Lead Professional, where appropriate, to people living in their own homes and care homes with mental health diagnosis and/or dementia, who require the skills of a Mental Health Nurse. They will provide a holistic, clinical autonomous nursing service, enabling individuals to engage in the best standards of care available.
The delivery of care should encompass NSF standards and Government Policy guidelines to assist in improving the quality of life for older people with mental health problems, enabling them to remain in their own home for as long as possible.
Main duties of the job
* To deliver a high-quality service to older people with a mental health diagnosis and/or dementia within a multi–professional framework.
* To develop shared understandings of people’s presentations that help people to better comprehend the underlying function(s) i.e. behaviour that challenges.
* To act as key worker/care co-ordinator for named individuals and adhere to the Care Programme Approach process.
* The ability to work independently, autonomously, and take personal responsibility/initiative.
* To provide high standards of care, delivered in a professional manner.
* To ensure that the care delivered is based on best practice and is regularly revised.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time, as close to home as possible, to help people recover and stay well.
We are one of the top 10 mental health, learning disability and community trusts to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking, and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.
Person specification
Qualification
* RMN registered with the NMC
* Successful completion of Mentorship course OR equivalent
* Minimum of 1 year working as a qualified nurse
Experience of working in a CMHT (preferably older people's)
* Minimum of 1 year's experience working in the community
* Either personal or professional experience of dementia
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect the demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if they match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics, and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement, whether that’s job share, part time, or any other flexible working patterns.
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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