The Community Mental Health Rehabilitation & Enablementservice is anexciting service that focuses on the rehabilitation needs of service users who have complex mental health issues and require intensive support to promote social inclusion and facilitate greater independence.
This service aims to enable Service Users to develop the right skills to improve their quality of life through independent living and effective management of their mental health difficulties.
An opportunity has arisen to appoint a Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse within our Bexley CMHRES team. This is a unique and exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and innovative professional from a community mental health nursing background who has experience of working with individuals with mental health problems, in community settings and fully understands the rehabilitation, enablement and recovery models of evidence based clinical practice.
As a Care Coordinator working in Bexley Community Mental Health and Enablement Service (CMHRES), you will promote and deliver evidence-based care for service users with mental health conditions in their own homes and within a variety of accommodation settings. You will hold responsibility for a defined caseload of service users who have complex mental health and rehabilitation needs. The main aim of the Team is to focus on rehabilitation, engagement, relapse prevention and enablement to optimise the service users’ ability to live independently and enjoy a good quality of life.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
• To hold professional responsibility for assessing individual care needs, risk assessments, development, implementation and evaluation of care plans for service users with the most complex rehabilitation needs.
• Being an effective communicator, observer and listener with advanced interpersonal skills, and a refined ability to deal sensitively with this client group
• Maintaining confidentiality at all times particularly in relation to consent in relation to sharing information, whilst respecting the individual service users rights and the Trust’s position on ‘common sense confidentially’.
• Adhere to the Trust’s, relevant policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Ensure good working relationships with service users, carers, family networks, nearest relatives, other professionals and the public.
• Demonstrating understanding and use of clinical supervision to reflect upon and modify own and others practice.
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This advert closes on Sunday 23 Mar 2025
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