Site West Suffolk Specialist CAMHS Town Bury St Edmunds Salary £37,338 - £44,962 Gross per annum/ pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 02/04/2025 23:59
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require.
Job overview
Is it your passion to work creatively with children, young people and families?
Our Specialist CAMHS team covering West Suffolk have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Registered Mental Health Nurse to join their existing team.
Ideally, you’ll have experience and skills in working with children, young people and their families and carers. CAMHS experience would be especially welcome and as would knowledge of attachment, child development and working systemically.
Suffolk CFYP services are in the process of innovative transformation. We are striving to develop our care model to be more aligned with the needs of the local communities. This has created opportunities to not only recognise and consolidate what we are doing well, but also to drive creativity in radically changing service delivery. These are both challenging and exciting times, in which we are redeveloping how we deliver mental health services in Suffolk. As such, this provides many opportunities for successful applicants to play a key role in bringing about positive change and making a difference, not only at an individual, family or team level, but in shaping the future direction of our services.
Our dedicated team is relatively small and is compassionate and responsive. There are processes to review our work, to develop areas of good practice, therapeutic skills and support learning and development of staff.
Main duties of the job
The team has been developing ways of working which help to identify the types of needs that arise for children, young people and their families and channel resources appropriately.
If you’d like the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, intriguing role then we’d love to hear from you!
Previous applicants need not apply.
We are confident that being part of our team would enable you to be the Registered Nurse you trained, and would like, to be. This role will offer you the time and facilities to make a difference.
Managing and assessing risk is a large part of our role and as a team we robustly make decisions in complete collaboration with all systems.
As part of this team, responsibilities would include undertaking assessments of children and young people, working collaboratively with families and other supporting agencies to manage needs, as well as holding a caseload and undertaking duty.
You can expect regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development, you’ll be provided with a full induction program and access to extensive training and career development.
We are committed to formulation and ensuring that the pathway of the young person is based on the biosocial model of care and that the voice of the young adult is heard and validated throughout their episode of care.
Working for our organisation
We are seeking a warm, compassionate and needs-led approach with our service users, their families and their network.
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To assist in the management and organisation of work as required.
Provide planned nursing care and risk assessment / screening for patients within his or her care plan.
To be responsible for implementing first and / or urgent patient assessments.
Provide ongoing evaluation of patients’ needs and identify suitability for potential discharge in conjunction with the Senior Nurse, through caseload management and supervision.
Initiate and attend patient centred reviews, case conferences and other meetings as required.
To advise the Responsible Medical Officer(s) and / or health and social care professional of any change in the patients’ conditions and / or circumstances.
To work within the multi-disciplinary team and to form working partnerships with other care providers.
To ensure service users and / or carer(s) are enabled and empowered to make informed decisions about their care and delivery of that care, working with agencies from within and outside the multi-disciplinary team.
To provide caseload management supervision to junior staff under direction and supervision of the Senior Nurse.
Assist with the supervision of peers if requested.
To have ongoing responsibility for the review of a patient’s care within the team setting and to prioritise and disseminate such information within the team.
To enable patients to gain and maintain independence.
To fully co-operate with the educational requirements of Learner Nurse placements in the Community Nursing Service in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
To keep the Clinical Nurse Leader fully informed of clinical and service delivery issues.
To maintain and provide accurate records, statistics and reports as required by the Nurse Manager and / or the Trust.
To participate in clinical governance / audit, clinical trials and research practice that would affect service development.
To understand and work within the requirements of the Mental Health Act (1983).
To effectively organise the working day for self and others, making the best use of time, geographical distances and resources.
To be responsible for and legally comply with the safe carriage, custody and administration of drugs and other clinical material.
Ensuring the nursing practice is a person centred and, as far as possible, promoting the direct involvement of patients and carers in the development of the plan of care from admission to discharge.
Identifying personal learning and training needs through KSF, appraisal and personal development plans on an annual basis.
Taking responsibility for ensuring that personal nursing practice is informed by relevant local and national developments and is evidence based.
Actively participating in training and education.
Act as a mentor for students and undertake annual updates on mentorship and evidence for triennial reviews.
Undertake sign-off mentor training and responsibility.
To delegate appropriate tasks to junior staff as appropriate.
Adhere to organisational guidelines on clinical supervision and undertake protected time as per Trust guidelines.
May act as a mentor to students within all professions.
May participate in recruitment and selection of junior staff.
Ensure that personal appearance, practice and manner conform to the standards and expectations of the Trust.
Maintaining a professional therapeutic relationship with patients, carers and colleagues.
To comply with all Trust policies, guidelines and protocols with particular regard to community services.
To discharge statutory social care functions as delegated under the Section 75 agreement with Suffolk County Council for service users (aged 18+, excluding those with moderate/severe learning disabilities or dementia and carers on behalf of the organisation (for Suffolk service users only).
To provide appropriate health and social care interventions according to service users’ recovery goals (for Suffolk service users only).
To assess health and social care needs as part of an integrated team and implement / commission packages of care where appropriate (for Suffolk service users only).
Person specification
Qualifications
* Nursing degree or equivalent Mentoring / Mentorship (ENB988 or equivalent)
* Evidence at social care / health related study
Experience
* Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
* Previous community experience
Skills
* Able to time manage and reflect on clinical practice
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.
DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.
Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.
The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.
This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.
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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