Community Mental Health Nurse + £6000 Recruitment Premium
Band 6
Main area: Community Mental Health
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9-5)
Job ref: 367-PLAN-7961-F
Site: Rosanne House ACMHS
Town: Welwyn Garden City
Salary: £35,392 - £42,618 per annum, pro rata + 5% of basic salary (min £1,192 max £2,011)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/10/2024 23:59
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust, we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered, please take part in our online values questionnaire. When you have finished, you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
Are you a qualified mental health nurse looking for a new challenge?
Would you like to work for an outstanding Trust?
The Hertfordshire Adult Mental Health Community Transformation Programme is implementing new mini teams within Adult Mental Health services to focus support and give more time to care for service users with low intensity psychosis - a new Low Intensity Psychosis Pathway.
This Band 6 post will be the named nurse lead for the new mini team in a specified Adult Mental Health Service, working closely with the Clinical Nurse Specialist and the MDT of the service to support this new focus.
The Low Intensity Psychosis Pathway seeks to promote the personalised recovery and future care of those service users who are settled in mental health and have an enduring diagnosis of psychosis, by working in partnership with people with psychosis and their carers to:
* offer help, treatment, and care in an atmosphere of hope and optimism
* take time to build supportive and empathic relationships as an essential part of this care.
This post attracts a recruitment premium: £1,500 on commencement of employment and a further £1,500 in arrears at the end of the first six months, followed by £3,000 in arrears at the end of 12 months. Terms & Conditions apply.
Main duties of the job
Our successful candidate will:
* hold a strong belief in the rights of people with severe and enduring mental health problems to access community assets in their local neighbourhoods
* provide assessment and specific interventions to meet the needs of service users, their carers, and families
* be a flexible practitioner who enjoys new challenges in meeting the developing needs of the service and our service users
* have an excellent understanding of the issues people with mental health needs and carry out interventions to a standard that ensures safe and effective care and complies with the NMC Code
In return, we can offer you:
* leadership and management training opportunities
* £6000 recruitment premium
* 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)
* 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
* One of the UK's best pension schemes
* Comprehensive health and wellbeing services
* Special leave for family and personal reasons
* NHS Car Lease Scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission. Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout: Welcoming, Kind, Positive, Respectful, Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To lead a mini team of staff to oversee the holistic care of service users on the Low Intensity Psychosis Pathway.
To carry a clinical caseload and fulfil the named nurse role.
To undertake comprehensive health needs and risk assessments (including capacity assessments) and develop a care plan in accordance with identified needs establishing specialist course of responsibilities/actions based on Recovery Principles.
To carry out joint assessment with other MDT members as required.
To be aware of and comply with the relevant mental health and work-related legislation and policy at all times.
To provide relevant up-to-date evidence-based information about treatment/intervention that enables service users to make informed choices about their care.
To deliver evidence-based care in a timely manner.
To make reactive recommendations as necessary when working alone in the community.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
* RMN or Dip/BSc (Hons) / MSc in Mental Health Nursing
* ENB 998/Preceptorship and Mentorship
* ENB 812/BSc in Specialist Community Nursing Practice (Mental Health)
* Psychosocial Interventions
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
* Experience of working in a range of settings relevant to the post
* At least 2 years of post-registration experience with at least one year at Band 5
* Experience of working in acute mental health inpatient/day care services
* Experience of working in situations of crisis and emotionally demanding environments.
* Experience and knowledge of safeguarding process
* Experience of teaching and training
* Experience and knowledge of working in a multi-ethnic community
* Experience of delivering evidence-based care
* Experience of working with acute mental health problems in a community setting
* Warranted Approved Mental Health Professional
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
* Up to date knowledge of relevant legislation, ethical issues, strategic frameworks and current guidelines regarding the range of presenting problems in adult mental health, their implications for both practices and clinical management
* Professional Code of Conduct
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Clinical risk assessment and management in a community setting.
* Ability to teach and train others using multi-media materials suitable for presentation.
* Knowledge of current developments in research with service user group
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
* Able to communicate effectively, orally and in writing at an age-appropriate level – complex, technical, and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and professionals within and outside the NHS
ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS
* Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries.
* Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to hold the stress of others.
* Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals
* Ability to maintain high standards of record keeping, including data entry and recording.
* Ability to work autonomously, setting appropriate goals in accordance with professional, ethical guidelines and Trust policies.
OTHER
* Disclosure and Barring approval (formally CRB check)
* Confident to work autonomously in the community and use own initiative to make decisions in complex situations.
* Able to travel independently across the Trust.
* Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were “blown away” by our people’s achievements and that everything they saw “sings and hums”. This year, our staff rated us the 4th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported through a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Additional Information
HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
Infection Control
All our staff will need to comply with current Infection Prevention and Control measures which could include wearing a mask on all our Trust sites and in all roles.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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