Employer: 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: OPCMHT, Springwell Centre, Barnet General Hospital
Town: Barnet
Salary: £42,939 - £50,697 pa
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/02/2025 23:59
Community Psychiatric Nurse - Older People
NHS AfC: Band 6
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). It is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people.
We have an exciting opportunity for a mental health nurse to take up a full-time position with the Community Mental Health Older Adult Services at the Springwell Centre in Barnet, Hertfordshire. As a multi-disciplinary team, we provide holistic assessment and treatment pathways for older adults and people with mental health and frailty needs.
Main Duties of the Job
The post holder will demonstrate expert practice in the care of clients with mental health needs and maintain clinical expertise, taking responsibility for initiating risk assessment, mental capacity, best interest assessments, crisis planning, dialog plus and core assessment, ensuring the care and interventions provided within the older people service are evidence-based and in accordance with NICE guidance.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Dip/BSc (Hons) in Mental Health Nursing, or Occupational Therapy
* Evidence of further post-registration education and training
* Currently registered with the appropriate professional body
* Evidence of ongoing CPD
* Post-registration experience as a Band 5 Mental Health nurse preferably in a mental health setting working with older adults with functional and organic mental health needs
* Experience/Interest in working with older adults
* Experience of working in a community mental health setting
* Recognised training in teaching/mentorship/supervision
* Ability to demonstrate transferable skills if currently working in another setting
* Further training within the specialist area of Mental Health for the Older Person
Special Requirements
* Full driving licence
* Understanding of user empowerment
* Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice
Knowledge and Skills
* Ability to care coordinate within dialog plus requirements
* Ability to work independently and autonomously
* Ability to work under pressure in acute situations with minimal supervision
* Safeguarding Adult Processes
* Knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1973
Experience
* Minimum of 2 years post-registration experience, one of which will be as a practitioner at band 5, working with people with severe and enduring mental health problems
* Experience in managing patient caseload and working as part of an MDT
References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.
If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.
Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.
Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.
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