Senior Community Mental Health Nurse - Memory
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
The ideal candidate will be highly motivated and able to demonstrate best practice in community mental health service delivery for older people, their families, and carers. The ability to work independently, effectively, and collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, with external partners, and most importantly - with people, their families, and unpaid or paid carers, is an essential core competency.
As Senior Practitioner, you will support the team's triage and duty system as part of a rota. You will undertake a detailed assessment using a holistic memory assessment framework, with the initial collation of all clinically relevant individual service user information (clinical history) and involving families and carers as part of our genuine commitment to co-creation. In this way, you will promote positive experience and clinical outcomes from the beginning of the person's service journey.
There is a requirement to accurately record and document clinical discussions and assessment details on our clinical system and to ensure that all individual service user documentation is up to date and available to aid formulation within the MDT meeting, providing consistent, safe, and high-quality decision-making. The successful candidate will provide MDT formulation outcome feedback to the service user and families and carers.
Candidates must have 18 months post-qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.
Main Duties of the Job
We are looking for an experienced Nurse who will thrive amongst the multi-disciplinary team of professionals to assess, formulate, and provide feedback within their journey. You will work within a team of Registered Mental Health nurses, Support Workers, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, as well as wider partner agencies including primary care services, social care, and voluntary sector agencies.
We offer robust supervision arrangements and a comprehensive induction and workforce development plan with a vast array of personal, professional, and academic training opportunities enabling you to expand your skill set and evidence-based practices.
You will be required to be innovative and flexible. We require the post holders to be committed to equal opportunities and non-discriminatory practices and reflect the trust values of Responsibility, Respect, and Compassion.
We would encourage candidates to contact us for an informal discussion.
About Us
We invest in your training and development. All staff who join TEWV will be provided with a comprehensive induction programme.
Continuous professional development is important to TEWV. Once you are comfortable in your new role, you and your manager will work collaboratively to form a Personal Development Plan (PDP/appraisal), your personal career aspirations are taken into account and the trust will provide you with the resources you need to develop.
Job Responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for further detailed information regarding the role and main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Current professional registration with Nursing & Midwifery Council - RNMH or RNLD (RNSC - CAMHS only) - RGN (If appropriate)
* Recognised Practice Supervisor and/or Practice Assessor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within 6 months
* Trained in Clinical Supervision and providing clinical supervision OR willingness to work towards within 6 months
* Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
Experience
* 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework
* Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers.
* Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.
* Supervising or assessing students on practice placement
* Working in a multi-disciplinary team
* Quality improvement activities
Personal Attributes
* Able to work in accordance with the Staff Compact and Trust Values and Behaviours.
* Compassionate in meeting the needs of vulnerable people and their families and carers.
* Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in distressing and challenging circumstances
* Able to work flexibly and cooperatively as part of a team
* Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently
* Committed to continual quality and service improvement
* Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development. Able to accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision
* Self-motivated, resourceful, and resilient in challenging situations
Knowledge
* Provide leadership and monitor, coordinate and prioritise the activities of a team
* Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
* Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake key worker responsibilities
* Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice
* Write reports
* Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings
* Use approved techniques in physical interventions
* Demonstrate recovery focussed practice
* Experience of working within a range of services, including inpatient and community settings
* Experience of undertaking or participating in research
* Specialist knowledge of working within a multidisciplinary/multi-agency community team setting
* Principles of change management
* Principles of project management
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.
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
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