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Community Mental Health Nurse/ Depot Nurse lead, Oxford
Client: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 495c7e9b67d6
Job Views: 4
Posted: 16.02.2025
Expiry Date: 02.04.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
Are you a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) who is passionate about improving outcomes for people with long term mental illness?
Are you looking for a new role with responsibility and variation in a busy working environment?
The Oxford City and North East AMHT are looking to recruit an experienced RMN to take a lead on running the Depot Clinic which is based at the Warneford Hospital in Headington. The City and Northeast OAMHT's main base is a stone's throw from the centre of Oxford and the dreamy spires. We provide care for the residents of Oxford, the local towns of Kidlington, Bicester and Woodstock, and the surrounding villages.
You would be in charge of the day to day running of the clinic and be responsible for ensuring that all of our SMI patients are receiving their anti-psychotic medications as per NICE guidance (including administering Depot injections).
The City AMHT is a wonderful team to work in and this role offers an opportunity to develop senior clinical and leadership skills. The Management team are committed to the wellbeing and development of the staff working in the team.
You will be supported by an experienced leadership team from across the professions who facilitate forums for Nursing and Occupational Therapists and hold your development as central. We offer regular supervision and you will be encouraged and supported to undertake any training relevant to your professional development.
Main duties of the job
This role is open to Registered Mental Health Nurses who have experience of working in Adult Mental Health services and understand the challenges that this care group can bring.
Responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:
* Deliver and maintain high quality and meaningful care for our patients. You will need to be a highly motivated practitioner who has experience of mental health services and can demonstrate the ability to initiate and manage your work effectively.
* Act as an independent practitioner within a defined community setting, while liaising with other professionals as necessary. You will manage the depot clinic whilst working closely with our lead pharmacy technician and have a caseload of clients prescribed IM medication and provide supervision to others as appropriate.
* Responsible for the evaluation of nursing care within agreed parameters, and have a working knowledge of local and national policies including legislation which governs current service provision and audit.
* To support and participate in a team based learning culture, engaging in practice development initiatives, supervision, and reflective practice forums.
* To support and supervise junior members of the team and to act as a mentor/preceptor to student nurses/trainees.
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:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are a supportive, dynamic and integrated team which although busy has many rewards. We care deeply about our patients and their families and carers. We believe in listening and responding as a team, piloting new models, supporting each other and developing and using new care approaches. We aim to improve patient care as well as provide increase staff satisfaction and sense of achievement.
For more information and a greater overview of the role, please refer to the attached job description.
We would encourage you to give us a call to discuss the role and we very much welcome visits from interested applicants.
Person specification
Education and Training
* To evidence a professional qualification (degree or equivalent) and current valid professional registration.
* To evidence continuing professional development since qualification. (Portfolio may be required to be viewed at interview)
* To evidence post graduate qualifications specifically relating to an appropriate aspect of care or management.
Occupational Experience
* To evidence appropriate experience and a high level of knowledge about working within community mental health care with working age adults.
* To evidence experience of working within a multidisciplinary team and an understanding of AMHTs and interdisciplinary working.
* To evidence of understanding and experience of risk management both clinically and operationally.
* To evidence a good understanding of clinical governance and your professional legal responsibilities.
* To evidence experience of supervising other staff.
Skills required - IT / Admin
* To evidence IT literacy, to include the Microsoft suite of programmes.
* To evidence excellent English written and verbal communication skills.
* To be able to travel between sites as required.
We’re advocates of flexible working, offering in many roles a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
* 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.
* 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.
* We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
* 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.
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