Community Mental Health Nurse

NHS; Oxford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a dedicated Mental Health Nurse to join the City and North East Oxon Adult Mental Health Team. This role involves providing high-quality, person-centred care within a multidisciplinary team environment, and offers opportunities for career progression and professional development.

Benefits

27 days annual leave, rising to 33 with service

NHS Discount across shops and restaurants

Access to learning and development

Employee Assistance Programme

Lease car scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Mental Health First Aiders

Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)

Staff support groups by Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in nursing with valid registration.
• Post graduate qualifications relating to mental health care.
• Experience working within community mental health services.

Responsibilities

• Conduct specialist nursing assessments and create treatment plans.
• Deliver evidence-based interventions based on NICE guidelines.
• Review care outcomes and support service users in their recovery.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

IT Literacy

Education

Degree in Nursing

Post graduate qualifications in mental health

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Are you a resilient and compassionate Mental Health Nurse looking for a role where you can make a real difference?

Do you have the passion and perspective to navigate the challenges and complexities of adult mental health care?

We are seeking an experienced and dedicatedRegistered Mental Health Nurse to join our City and North East Oxon Adult Mental Health Team (AMHT). Whether your post-qualification experience lies in Child and Adolescent, Adult, or Older Adult mental health, we welcome your expertise and commitment to high-quality patient care.

Join our supportive and collaborative multidisciplinary team, where innovation, teamwork, and person-centred recovery are at the heart of our approach. This role offers an excellent opportunity to develop senior clinical and leadership skills, with strong support from management. Based at Warneford Hospital in Oxford, with a satellite base in Bicester, our service covers a diverse patient group in a dynamic setting. We take pride in our CQC rating of Good and are committed to delivering high-quality care while fostering staff development and wellbeing. Working alongside a range of professionals, including doctors, social workers, nurses, occupational therapists, support workers, and psychological therapies staff, you will play a key role in providing evidence-based, person-centred care.

Main duties of the job

The responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:

• To work as an autonomous practitioner an active participant of the multi-disciplinary team undertaking specialist nursing assessments in collaboration with the service user and their families/carers and presenting back to the wider MDT.
• To work in partnership with service users and their families/carers to ensure the development of a treatment plan to facilitate their safety, promote their well-being and support their independence and inclusion in the community. This may include working closely with partner agencies.
• To delivery evidence-based interventions following NICE guidelines to promote recovery and relapse prevention in a variety of settings.
• To regularly review care and outcomes, supporting service users to complete clinical outcome measures and monitoring progress and adapting treatment options as required.

About us

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:"Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"

Our values are:"Caring, safe and excellent"

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Job responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

Person Specification

Education and Training

• To evidence a professional qualification (degree or equivalent) and current valid professional registration.
• To evidence post graduate qualifications specifically relating to an appropriate aspect of care or management.

Occupational Experience

• To evidence appropriate experience and a high level of knowledge about working within community mental health care with working age adults.
• To evidence experience of working within a multidisciplinary team and an understanding of AMHTs and interdisciplinary working.
• To evidence of understanding and experience of risk management both clinically and operationally.
• To evidence a good understanding of clinical governance and your professional legal responsibilities.
• To evidence experience of supervising other staff.
• To evidence a good knowledge of community services in the local area.
• To evidence awareness of National and local policy concerning mental health guidance.
• To evidence experience of conducting clinical audit and presenting the resulting analyse.
• To evidence experience of supervising students on placements.

Skills required - IT / Admin

• To evidence IT literacy, to include the Microsoft suite of programmes.
• To evidence excellent English written and verbal communication skills.

Other Requirements

• To evidence understanding and commitment to work within the Trust policies of data protection, equal opportunities, health & safety, and to meet the diverse needs of patients.
• To evidence the ability to travel around the local area to undertake home visits and visits to hospital and non-hospital sites, and have the capacity to carry equipment relative to your post.
• Car driver with own car available to use for work.

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.