Community Mental Health Nurse/Practitioner
Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Older Persons Community Mental Health team have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner
The Community Mental Health team provides recovery focused treatment plans for those people who are 65 and over with severe mental illness or who have organic mental ill health including Alzheimer's disease.
You will manage a caseload of patients with a mixture of functional and organic disorders and provide a comprehensive, accessible and responsive mental health service to patients and their families. You will be a committed, dynamic, motivated professional with excellent communication, organisational skills and the ability to prioritise your work. You will have the support and opportunity to develop your own skills and we offer a structured management supervision and a very supportive team environment.
This role is a part-time position, 22.5 hours working 3 days between Monday to Friday covering the Sherborne area. You will be based at The Yeatman Hospital in Sherborne and will need to have a valid driving licence and use of a car to travel to assess and monitor patients in their own homes and within other community or inpatient settings.
Main duties of the job
You will have recent experience of working in a mental health environment and be able to apply the philosophies of engagement and recovery in your work with service users and have an awareness of the Mental Health Act. As a Community Mental Health Practitioner, you will contribute to effective multi-disciplinary working within the community mental health service and build up effective liaison with community, primary, and other secondary and tertiary services/agencies within the locality to provide holistic care based on the individual's need and service development.
You will communicate effectively in verbal and written form in the exchange of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in difficult situations using de-escalation, mediation, resolution and professional Duty of Candour.
You will evaluate care, taking appropriate action leading to improvement in quality standards through clinical audit.
Job responsibilities
For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.
Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of. Applicants who subscribe to the DBS update service are able to present a valid DBS certificate instead of requiring a new check.
Person Specification
Knowledge, skills and training
* Demonstrable history of working towards recovery planning within role
* Demonstrable history of patient focussed interventions
* Able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
* Risk assessment and management
* The ability to prioritise and meet deadlines; organise work of self and others; supervising, teaching and assessing; self-motivated with the ability to motivate others; effective resource management.
* Uses initiative and can make decisions. Manages difficult situations effectively.
* Evidence of ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team.
* Evidence of ability to be responsible for complex decision making and case holding
* Competent computer skills, experience inputting information on RIO
* Awareness of Primary Care and Steps to Wellbeing.
* Experience of duty work
* Experience/interest in facilitating groups
Business Travel
* Subject to the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act, able to travel using own vehicle on Trust business.
Additional Requirements
* Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English, adequate to enable the post holder to carry out the role effectively
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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