Registered Mental Health Nurse / Occupational Therapist

NHS; Dover; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to transforming mental health care. As a Registered Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist, you'll play a crucial role in delivering person-centred care and evidence-based interventions. This position allows you to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, supporting service users in their recovery journey while addressing complex mental health needs. With a focus on empowerment and inclusivity, you'll help bridge the gap between primary and community mental health services. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the lives of individuals facing mental health challenges.

Benefits

Learning and Development Opportunities

Health and Wellbeing Initiatives

Staff Forum

Progression Opportunities

Competitive Annual Leave Entitlement

Incremental Pay Progression

Approved Blue Light Card Provider

Salary Sacrifice Schemes

Company Car Lease Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years post-registration experience required.
• Registered Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist qualification needed.

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based interventions to support mental health recovery.
• Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams and community agencies.
• Engage service users in relapse prevention and care planning.

Skills

Person-Centred Care

Evidence-Based Interventions

Strengths-Based Approach

Collaborative Working

Risk Management

Crisis Intervention

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Registered Occupational Therapist

MELPS Qualification

Tools

RiO

Job description

Registered Mental Health Nurse / Occupational Therapist

Do you want to be part of a person-centred mental health revolution?

Together, we're stronger. Join the multi-agency force for better mental health care!

Invicta Health in partnership with Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) are seeking to recruit Community Mental Health Practitioners to be part of Mental Health Together.

What is Mental Health Together?

In Kent and Medway, the community mental health transformation model has created a new service called Mental Health Together. It is a multi-agency offer, which means bringing all the services and agencies that support people with varying mental health needs much closer together. This ensures that people get the right care, without having to navigate service boundaries and without repeatedly telling their story.

Mental Health Together will add new roles, as part of a new joined-up model of care which bridges the gap that currently exists between primary (i.e. GPs) and community mental health (i.e. KMPT). It will treat people with complex mental health needs by:

• Providing someone with support in a person-centred, holistic way
• Removing barriers to access, and thresholds across services working together
• Involving service users and carers as equal partners in their care
• Building in involvement and co-production at all levels of service design delivery
• Delivering needs-led and personalised trauma-informed care.

Main duties of the job

The Registered Mental Health Nurse / Occupational Therapist will be expected to deliver stepped care by delivering a range of evidence-based interventions which will promote recovery, social inclusion and normalization for service users who suffer from mental health problems.

They will work in partnership with the MDT, CRHT, Acute Inpatients Services, other community teams, Primary Care and the Voluntary Sector to provide support and treatment to service users and facilitate the safe management of their needs within a range of community settings.

The principle purpose is to promote mental and physical health and prevent ill health by treating mental health problems effectively through evidence-based interventions that build on strengths and supports choice and is underpinned by a single care plan within a model of care based on inclusivity, particularly for those people with co-existing needs, who experience marginalization.

They will be a Registered Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist responsible for patients allocated to them and will be involved in assessment, management planning and delivering care.

The post will support their peers and team leaders and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will supervise Band 5 Nurses/OTs and pre-registered students and hold a mentoring qualification. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals.

About us

Invicta Health is a not for profit company, with a passion for primary care. We have a wide range of services such as GP surgeries, services in Urgent Treatment Centres, a mental health service, GP staff training service and the list is growing all the time.

We are formed by a federation of General Practitioners working in Canterbury and South Kent Coast areas of East Kent. Our aim is to provide local, high quality services for local people by collaborating with other established organisations in the health and social care community.

What perks can we offer you?

• Learning and development opportunities
• Health and wellbeing initiatives
• Staff forum
• Progression opportunities
• Competitive annual leave entitlement
• Incremental pay progression
• Approved blue light card provider
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes
• Company Car Lease Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

Applying:

We have full time and part time opportunities within Thanet, South Kent Coast and Dartford area. On application, please indicate which locality you wish to be considered for and your preference of hours.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.

Job responsibilities

Main Responsibilities

• Foster recovery through empowerment of service users and carers by using a strengths-based approach involving the service user and carer in the planning of their care establishing and maintaining consistent supportive relationships, which encourage increased self-determination and responsibility for service users and their care.
• Offer a range of evidence-based interventions and risk management approaches enabling the service user and carers to reduce and manage symptoms and high-risk behaviour in episodes of relapse.
• Be proactive, innovative, and creative in delivering care, enabling the facilitation of service users recovery.
• Engage service users and carers in relapse prevention and risk management / contingency plans, providing interventions that maximize the service users ability to resolve relapse crisis and prevents admission to hospital.
• Liaise with inpatient units to support discharge through appropriate pathways.
• Facilitate early discharge from both inpatients and the CRHT Team by providing regular, formal reviews.
• Deliver a flexible and responsive service through practice that is dictated by service users/carers needs.
• Work collaboratively and effectively with members of the multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with other agencies.
• Deliver high quality care and provide solutions and signposting to service users with severe and enduring mental health problems to support correct pathway access.
• Provide care within the Strength Based Model of practice maintaining service users within their own environment in the community.
• Act as an educator for service users and carers. Advise on issues of mental health to generate a positive approach to health and strengthen the service users capacity to manage illness, symptoms, and relapse.
• Respond swiftly to urgent referrals providing interventions to prevent admission or re-admission.
• Work closely with carers.
• Recognise racial, cultural, sexual preference and address health inequalities.
• Ensure that record keeping/documentation reflects needs.
• Maximize the use of resources within the team and available in the community.
• To be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care, using evidence-based tools and models of care.
• Work within the MDT framework according to code of practice, for delivery of optimum care.
• Ensure that care plans are reviewed and updated to take into account of the most recent information regarding service users needs. It should reflect the views of the service users and carers.
• Undertake risk assessment/management for service users on the caseload and disseminate the information to their team members and professionals involved.
• Ensure activity/contact is entered promptly on RiO, conforming to the organisations data quality requirements, in line with contract specification Trust and Social Care data quality requirement.
• Provide care plans in accordance with National Guidelines.

Person Specification

Experience

• Minimum of 2 years post registration experience.
• Previous experience of working in a community team.

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse, or registered Occupational Therapist (holding diploma or degree qualification).
• MELPS (Mentoring and Enabling in a clinical setting).

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.