Job overview
Are you a resilient and compassionate Mental Health Nurse looking for a role where you can make a real difference?
Do you have the passion and perspective to navigate the challenges and complexities of adult mental health care?
We are seeking an experienced and dedicated Registered Mental Health Nurse to join our City and North East Oxon Adult Mental Health Team (AMHT). Whether your post-qualification experience lies in Child and Adolescent, Adult, or Older Adult mental health, we welcome your expertise and commitment to high-quality patient care.
This role carries an incentive premium of £3,500* which will be paid in instalments over an 18-month period.
Join our supportive and collaborative multidisciplinary team, where innovation, teamwork, and person-centred recovery are at the heart of our approach. This role offers an excellent opportunity to develop senior clinical and leadership skills, with strong support from management. Based at Warneford Hospital in Oxford, with a satellite base in Bicester, our service covers a diverse patient group in a dynamic setting. We take pride in our CQC rating of Good and are committed to delivering high-quality care while fostering staff development and wellbeing. Working alongside a range of professionals, including doctors, social workers, nurses, occupational therapists, support workers, and psychological therapies staff, you will play a key role in providing evidence-based, person-centred care.
*terms apply to incentive
Main duties of the job
The responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:
1. To work as an autonomous practitioner an active participant of the multi-disciplinary team undertaking specialist nursing assessments in collaboration with the service user and their families/carers and presenting back to the wider MDT.
2. To work in partnership with service users and their families/carers to ensure the development of a treatment plan to facilitate their safety, promote their well-being and support their independence and inclusion in the community. This may include working closely with partner agencies.
3. To delivery evidence-based interventions following NICE guidelines to promote recovery and relapse prevention in a variety of settings.
4. To regularly review care and outcomes, supporting service users to complete clinical outcome measures and monitoring progress and adapting treatment options as required.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
5. Excellent opportunities for career progression
6. Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
7. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
8. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
9. Competitive pension scheme
10. Lease car scheme
11. Cycle to work scheme
12. Employee Assistance Programme
13. Mental Health First Aiders
14. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
15. Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
Person specification
Education and Training
Essential criteria
16. To evidence a professional qualification (degree or equivalent) and current valid professional registration.
17. To evidence continuing professional development since qualification.
Desirable criteria
18. To evidence post graduate qualifications specifically relating to an appropriate aspect of care or management.
Occupational Experience
Essential criteria
19. To evidence appropriate experience and a high level of knowledge about working within community mental health care with working age adults.
20. To evidence experience of working within a multidisciplinary team and an understanding of AMHTs and interdisciplinary working.
21. To evidence of understanding and experience of risk management both clinically and operationally.
22. To evidence a good understanding of clinical governance and your professional legal responsibilities.
23. To evidence experience of supervising other staff.
Desirable criteria
24. To evidence a good knowledge of community services in the local area.
25. To evidence awareness of National and local policy concerning mental health guidance.
26. To evidence experience of conducting clinical audit and presenting the resulting analyse.
27. To evidence experience of supervising students on placements.
Skills required – IT / Admin
Essential criteria
28. To evidence IT literacy, to include the Microsoft suite of programmes.
29. To evidence excellent English written and verbal communication skills.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
30. To evidence understanding and commitment to work within the Trust policies of data protection, equal opportunities, health & safety, and to meet the diverse needs of patients.
31. To evidence the ability to travel around the local area to undertake home visits and visits to hospital and non-hospital sites, and have the capacity to carry equipment relative to your post.
Desirable criteria
32. Car driver with own car available to use for work.
33. All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
34. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
35. We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
36. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
37. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
38. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
39. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
40. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing