Care Home and Outreach Mental Health Nurse
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
We are eager to recruit a Nurse passionate about older people's mental health and quality service delivery and care. The postholder will work with the wider MDT, internal and external stakeholders including care homes and families to support those who are experiencing a crisis and present with behaviours which challenge within their own environments.
The post holder will clinically support our service users and the team working with older people who have a mental health diagnosis or dementia to get their needs met in a proactive manner.
The successful candidate will be experienced working with older people with mental health needs and or dementia.
We welcome your application and any questions you may have.
Main duties of the job
The care home and outreach teams are currently undergoing a period of transformation, we therefore seek someone who is not only passionate about working with older people who have a mental health condition or have been diagnosed with dementia and are currently presenting with behaviours which challenge; but also passionate about driving forward quality care.
About us
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference.
We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs.
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners.
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:
* Increase mileage rates for > 3500.
* A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages.
* A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for further details about this role.
Person Specification
Registration
* Registered RMN, Current Registration on part 3 or part 13 of NMC Register.
* Experience of working with People who have Dementia.
* Dementia Qualification.
Experience
* Experience of working with people with complex care needs associated with their Dementia in the community.
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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