Community Mental Health Nurse

We have an exciting opportunity for a nurse to join the Bromley East ADAPT Team. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in a busy and varied multi-disciplinary environment. You will work alongside clinical and other non-clinical colleagues to make a positive contribution to our patient's journey to recovery.

The Bromley EAST ADAPT Service provides care and treatment to individuals who are experiencing anxiety, depression, affective disorder, personality or trauma. If you are interested in developing your intervention-based skills with this cohort, then we would look forward to hearing from you and receiving your application. The successful candidate will be supported to develop their assessment skills and psychologically informed interventions (both group and individual) to enable them to work as an effective member of the team.

We would recommend that you contact the team for an informal chat in the first instance if you are interested in the post.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for undertaking comprehensive assessments of service users' and carers' mental health and social care needs. Once these needs have been identified, the post holder will be responsible for developing a goal-focused and person-centred care plan to enable the provision of an appropriate intervention.

The post holder will be working in a supportive diverse team, where there are opportunities for personal and professional development.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. 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, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and into Kent and manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital in Woolwich as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are one of the largest providers of prison health services providing healthcare to prisoners across 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 Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for further information relating to the job's main responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Evidence of further training in the last year

Experience

• Experience working in a clinical setting with people with complex mental health needs.
• Previous experience working in a community setting

Skills

• Experience in undertaking a variety of assessments with people with mental health needs.
• Manage and create care plans for a caseload of patients with complex needs.
• Experience of working with trauma, ASD, EUPD diagnosis.

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.