B5/6 Community Mental Health Nurse (Dev Role)
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
This opportunity is open to candidates with the NMC and living in the UK.
The Community Mental Health Recovery Service in Reigate is seeking enthusiastic community mental health nurses (NMC) to join the team.
The Post Holder will work within a community team based within the area, partnering with statutory and voluntary sectors to facilitate a whole system approach to care delivery. The Post Holder will act as Care Coordinator/Lead Professional, where appropriate, to patients who require the skills of a Mental Health professional, providing a holistic, clinical autonomous nursing service to enable individuals to engage in the best standards of care available.
This will be a developmental post, progressing to band 6 after 12 months, subject to evidence of competency, extending to 24 months to achieve.
The candidate must have a full and valid driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes due to the community element of this role.
Student nurses waiting for registration will also be considered.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Manage a defined caseload that reflects the priorities of the local population and carry responsibility for the assessment of care needs under the supervision of the CPN Clinical Lead.
2. Participate in the multi-disciplinary assessment of individuals with mental health problems living in the community.
3. Ensure that a risk assessment is completed for service users.
4. Be aware of the potential for vulnerability to abuse among service users/families, and use local policy to inform appropriate personnel in line with safeguarding vulnerable adults and children and SABP Policies.
5. Ensure that a carer's assessment is offered to carers of service users.
6. Utilise the full range of mental health nursing skills to participate in the assessment, care, and support of service users.
7. Participate in the provision of community mental health nursing advice and consultation to colleagues, community groups, and organisations.
8. Promote the recovery model to the people who use the service and their carers.
9. Respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality, and spiritual beliefs of individuals, actively supporting them to fulfil these.
Please refer to the attached job description for full details.
About Us
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations that provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast, with historic market towns and bustling districts enveloped in wonderful countryside.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Job Responsibilities
Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* NMC Registration as RN3 or RNMH
* Student nurse waiting for registration
Experience
* Band 5 - proven experience working with people with mental health (can be prequalification)
* Band 6 - significant post-qualification experience of working in the community with people with severe and enduring mental health illnesses.
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.
Salary: £31,469 to £47,084 a year including 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.
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