Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse

Eput; Braintree; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday plus bank holidays

Excellent pension up to 14.5%

Relocation package £8K

Staff discounts and travel benefits

Job summary

East of England NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) is seeking a dedicated practitioner for care coordination and assessment across mental health services. The role covers a wide geographic area, requiring a driving license and access to a vehicle to support client appointments and home visits.

The post involves delivering recovery-based care plans, MDT collaboration, and robust documentation to ensure high-quality care for patients with complex needs.

Qualifications

• Care coordination of a caseload of clients.
• Assessment of care needs and development of recovery-based plans.
• Maintain individualized care through assessment and documentation.
• Participate in MDT meetings and initial health and social needs assessments.

Responsibilities

• Undertake initial health and social needs assessments and participate in MDT meetings.
• Assess under the Care Act 2015 and present findings to funding panels.
• Plan creatively to meet client needs with evidence-based interventions.
• Prioritize and manage workload for clients with complex needs.
• Collaborate with colleagues to improve service quality.
• Provide urgent and unplanned care as part of the duty rota.

Skills

Care coordination

Assessment

MDT meetings

Documentation

Driving license

Tools

Care Act 2015

Funding panels

Job description

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Please be aware that, due to current allocation constraints, Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) are being prioritised for registered roles at this time.

Our Trust cares for more than 100,000 patients at any one time across our community health, mental health and learning disability services across Essex and parts of Bedfordshire and Suffolk.

We want you to be part of our journey of transformation, where our patients and their families are at the heart of everything we do and to achieve our vision to be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care.

You’ll be part of a Trust where you will be supported to be your authentic self and be the best you can be, where we will help you to grow, develop and thrive.

The Trust is recognised by the University of Essex and is a top provider of apprenticeships for people looking to be an assistant practitioner, senior health care support worker (CAP). Our trailblazing CAP apprenticeship won a national HSJ Award.

We are also recognised as a Veteran Aware Trust and holder of gold accreditation from the Ministry of Defence Employment Recognition Scheme. Our services are highlighted as an exemplar of good practice, producing the best care for more than 3.500 armed forces veterans in the past seven years.

We have been shortlisted and won national awards. We are an inclusive organisation and Level 3 Disability Confident Leader Trust.

We are constantly innovating and looking for new ways to deliver care, such as using technology to enhance patient care and working with partners to launch new services such as the Basildon Mental Health Urgent Care Department, virtual hospitals and falls response cars.

Join us and you’ll do the best work of your life – and make a difference to other people’s lives. What we do together, matters.

Job overview

Assessment and Care Co-ordination of clients experiencing a range of mental health conditions including but not limited to, Schizophrenia, Bi-Polar Disorder, Personality Disorders, Depression, Anxiety and OCD. As well as this the team runs a both Depot and Clozapine Clinics, and the person would be expected to cover these as and when required, or potentially take this on as a regular part of their working week. The role covers a wide geographical area within Mid-Essex, as such a driving license and access to a car is essential for the role. The team is a made up of other CPN’s, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists and Psychiatrists as well as Support Workers and admin staff. The team hold regular MDT and Business meetings to discuss the ongoing care of the clients as well as the functioning of the team.

Main duties of the job

• To undertake care co-ordination of a caseload of clients.
• Carry responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of recovery based care plans.
• To maintain effective individualised care through assessment of service user and carers problems. Plan, implement and evaluate interventions and clear, accurate and concise documentation of individualised care.

• Undertake initial health and social needs assessments and participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings to look at appropriate selection and allocation of clients to CPA and regular reviews.
• Undertake assessments under the Care Act 2015 and present relevant findings to the funding panels where appropriate.

• Following analysis of client assessments, plan creatively to meet their needs including the provision of evidence based interventions.
• Prioritise and manage workload to ensure the effective management of a defined group of clients with complex needs.
• Responsible for working with colleagues in seeking to improve the quality of services provided to our clients/patients.
• Participate in the teams duty rota, providing urgent and unplanned care for those under the team who are allocated only to psychology or psychiatry colleagues, or for those whose care coordinators are on leave or sick

Working for our organisation

Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.

• Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
• Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
• If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service.
• Excellent pension of up to 14.5% of your pensionable pay.
• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
• £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
• Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.

Work that wraps around your needs

• Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The post holder will be fully conversant and uphold their professional code of conduct.
• Ensure all care is delivered in accordance with Trust’s care programme approach guidelines.

• To participate in the initial assessment of clients to determine appropriateness for secondary care services and to liaise with referring agencies to identify alternative agencies as appropriate to meet the client’s needs.

• Undertake risk assessments with clients and plan effectively to manage this in care plan with MDT.
• Ensure that all interventions are undertaken within established time scales and according to standards of best evidence based practice and operational policy.
• To provide clinical supervision and professional leadership to junior staff and promote evidence based practice.
• Attend training as provided and be responsible for keeping oneself up to date at all times with mandatory training.
• Keep oneself updated in all legislative government initiatives and guidelines.

Please see full Job Description and Person Specification documents

Person specification

Experience

• At least 2 years experience working at Band 5 level
• Experience of working within community mental health setting

Knowledge

• Demonstrates sufficient knowledge to work at band 6 level
• Awareness and understanding of community mental health roles and procedures

As a newly appointed employee, you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post; the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.

Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email [e-mail] and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.

The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.

Important Notice: Recently the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 (the Regulations) which amended on 22 July 2021 and come into force on 11 November 2021 that anyone directly employed to work in a Care Home or who are required as part of their role to be deployed to a CQC registered care home are required to have had both their COVID vaccinations, unless they are exempt. This is therefore a requirement of this role and will form part of our pre-employment checks.

Please note -staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered ‘suitable alternative employment’ to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to 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.