Bank Comm Mh Nurse Band6

Oxleas Nhs Foundation Trust; Dartford; Sur place; GBP 43 000 - 53 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking Bank RMN Community Nurses Band 6 to join our staff bank. The role supports flexible shift patterns and multi-disciplinary team care for patients with complex mental health needs in community settings.

Essentially, you will be a Registered Mental Health Nurse with CPD and at least 3 years post-registration experience, including working with adults with mental health conditions and experience supervising staff.

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse with current UK registration.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
• Desirable: 2 years community experience.
• Minimum of 3 years post-registration.
• Experience supervising junior staff and working in a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience working with adults with mental health problems.
• Knowledge/experience in managing Clozapine and Depot medication.
• Able to work within policy frameworks and demonstrate excellent communication skills.

Responsabilités

• Cover shifts across Oxleas Trust departments as part of the Staff Bank.
• Provide safe, person-centred nursing care to patients.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver care.
• Support care coordinators and families as needed.

Connaissances

Registered Mental Health Nurse

CPD

Community experience

3+ years post-registration

Supervising junior staff

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Clozapine & Depot management

Policy compliance

Excellent communication

Description du poste

Bank RMN Community Nurses Band 6

Do you enjoy caring for people?

Do you want the flexibility to determine your own shift pattern?

Do you already have experience, but would like to broaden your clinical experience; working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver a wide range of care?

We are inviting passionate and committed individuals to join our Trust's Staff Bank.

We are looking for motivated, skilled, and experienced Registered Mental Health Nurses (RMNs) to work in our community setting.

The BANK RMN under the direction of a nurse in charge, is accountable for the provision, organisation, and direction of safe and person centred nursing care approaches for patients.

Main duties of the job

To cover shifts in various departments across Oxleas Trust where the Multi-Disciplinary Team have identified that a Registered Mental Health Nurse is required to provide care to patients with complex and enduring mental health needs.

Care Coordinators working with people with rehabilitation needs should ensure they are 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.

About us

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 members of 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. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. 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. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £48,307 a year pa inc HCAS
• Contract: Bank
• Working pattern: Flexible working
• Reference number: 277-6761920-CMH-E

Job responsibilities

A manual of self-management programme 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Desirable

• 2 years Community Experience

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 3 years post registration
• Experience of supervising junior staff
• Experience of working in a multi disciplinary team
• Experience of working with adults with Mental Health problems

Desirable

• Experience of liaising with other agencies

Skills

Essential

• Knowledge and skills in the management of clients on Clozapine & Depot medication
• Experience of being able to work within policy frameworks in a regulated patient care setting
• Excellent Communication Skills

Desirable

• Experience of facilitating/planning/supporting groups in a healthcare setting/smoking cessation/activities

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer contact details

Recruitment and Retention Officer Ian Biggam

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07350374776

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