Bank Comm MH Nurse Band6

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Dartford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Dartford seeks a Registered Mental Health Nurse to support patients with complex mental health needs. Responsibilities include care coordination, developing self-management programs, and engaging with diverse populations. The role emphasizes recovery-based approaches and offers an inclusive environment for all applicants.

Benefits

Disability Confident Scheme

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse required to provide care for patients with complex mental health needs.
• Competence in engaging with people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
• Experience in working recovery-based approaches to care planning.

Responsibilities

• Work with rehabilitation needs and provide care to patients.
• Deliver family intervention when trained and supervised.
• Develop self-management programmes for service users.

Skills

Engagement

Assessment skills

Knowledge of mental health diagnosis

Negotiating skills

Conflict management

Job description

Overview

To cover shifts in various departments across Oxleas Trust where a Registered Mental Health Nurse is required to provide care to patients with complex and enduring mental health needs.

Responsibilities

• Care Coordinators, working with people with rehabilitation needs, should be competent in:
• Engagement
• Working with a biopsychosocial formulation
• Assessment skills
• Using explanatory models of illness
• Knowledge of mental health diagnosis
• Explaining treatment options
• Negotiating skills
• Skills for working with families of people with psychosis
• Conflict management and conflict resolution
• A manual of self-management programmes should be developed and delivered face-to-face with service users, as part of the treatment and management. Self-management programmes should include:
• • Information and advice about psychosis
  • Effective use of medication
  • Identifying and managing symptoms
  • Accessing mental health and other support services
  • Coping with stress and other problems
  • What to do in a crisis
  • Building a social support network
  • Preventing relapse and setting personal recovery goals
• Care Coordinators should be skilled in working with recovery-based approaches to care planning. They should be able to work flexibly and creatively with people in order to achieve their individual goals, supporting them across a range of health and social care needs, including housing, benefits and debt advice.
• Care Coordinators will also deliver family intervention when trained and supervised in delivery.
• Care Coordinators working with people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds should ensure they are competent in addressing cultural and ethnic differences in beliefs regarding biological, social and family influences on the causes of unusual mental states, treatment expectations and adherence.

Organisation and culture

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview if they have questions about the role or the process. If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

Disability Confident Scheme: If you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview. Please ensure you select this on your application form.

About Oxleas

Working for our organisation, Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children\'s centres, schools and people\'s homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England, including London boroughs and Kent.

We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services, providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families, guided by our values: We\'re Kind, We\'re Fair, We Listen, We Care.