Mental Health Nurse

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a Qualified Mental Health Nurse that has an interest in working in a community team but would like some support to see if this is the right career path for you or are you moving to the South Shropshire area? If so, South Shropshire Mental Health Service has an opportunity for a fixed-term Band 6 Nurse to join the team until May 2027. The post holder will work from the Bridgnorth team base and cover across the South East of Shropshire.

The post offers the successful applicant the ability to learn the skills of managing a community caseload with support from the wider MDT. The role also offers the opportunity to learn how to assess a person's mental health needs, make holistic plans of care involving the service user and their family/carers, and evaluate the care at regular intervals to help the person work towards Recovery. The role also involves the ability to learn the skills of managing day-to-day calls to the team via the Duty system and making clinical judgements on the correct pathway for a person's needs.

This is a very rewarding role. If you would like further information, do not hesitate to contact the team to discuss prior to application/interview.

The post is community-based, visiting people in their homes; hence driving and use of a car is essential for this role.

Main duties of the job

• Take responsibility for the management of a complex caseload, which includes specialist assessment (within service specification) and care planning in collaboration with the service user.
• Responsible for participating in the setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring, and reviewing of practice in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.
• Assess patients' individual care needs, develop, implement, and evaluate programmes of care utilising patient-related outcome measures (PROMs).
• Deliver a range of interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care and Pathway guidance, including pharmacological and psychologically informed interventions.
• Complete and contribute, where appropriate, to robust risk assessments and risk management plans. Deliver and promote positive risk-taking, where appropriate, to improve quality of life and maximise occupational performance/independence.
• Utilise agreed outcome measures to review the effectiveness of interventions, as part of the care planning and evaluation process.
• Participate in the development of the service to ensure clinical governance processes are actively implemented at team level.
• Assist in ensuring that the aims and objectives of the ward/department (as set by the responsible clinician) are fulfilled and to identify factors which may inhibit these from being achieved.
• Work within the NMC Code of Practice and professional guidelines.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities, and in return for this, we will support you by:

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI, and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one-off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation, and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI, you must state this in your application.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Job responsibilities

You will be responsible for working in an identified adult community mental health team, with the flexibility of working across localities, dependent on skill and service need.

You will be responsible for undertaking clinical assessments in order to establish the person's needs, goals, risks, and strengths in order to generate a collaborative care plan agreed with all involved. You will be responsible for delivering recovery-focused interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to an identified group of people experiencing mental health-related difficulties.

You will also be expected to be available for consultation, support, and clinical supervision to other health professionals working within the team and other areas of the Trust where identified as appropriate.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Qualified Nurse (Mental Health)
• Post Registration experience in a community setting

Skills

• Skills in evidence-based therapy
• Leadership skills or qualification

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.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address