Senior Community Mental Health Nurse

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust; King's Lynn, Wymondham; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in King's Lynn is seeking a skilled mental health practitioner to assess and support older people's mental health needs. In this community-based role, you will work closely with a multi-disciplinary team and provide tailored care for clients in care homes. Applicants should have relevant registration and experience in mental health assessment. Competitive salary range between £38,682 and £46,580 per year.

Benefits

Comprehensive in-house and external training programmes

27 days annual leave increasing to 33 based on length of service

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in assessment of mental health.
• Effective risk assessment and risk management experience.
• Ability to travel independently as per service needs.

Responsibilities

• Assessing mental health needs in care homes.
• Working closely with the multi-disciplinary team.
• Providing bespoke care planning for service users.

Skills

Excellent communication and engagement skills

Competent assessment skills

Effective analytical and decision making skills

Care planning knowledge

Risk assessment skills

Education

Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker

Ongoing professional development towards degree level

Job description

Are you a skilled and experienced mental health practitioner looking to join a passionate and dedicated team?

We believe that older people should feel valued and be treated with the dignity and respect they so rightly deserve.

Our Memory Assessment Team - Care Homes (MAT-CH) works with our service users to help recovery and make a positive difference to their health and wellbeing. This service covers care homes across Norfolk & Waveney focussing on dementia diagnostic assessment, care planning and working with care home staff members in managing service users' needs and challenging behaviour. We believe that working closely with our service users and their family or carer allows us to provide bespoke care planning to meet their needs.

The post holder will be visiting service users in the care homes, assessing their mental health needs. The post holder will have an identified NSFT base and there is also an opportunity for hybrid working.

We're looking for individuals who have particular experience in working with older people community mental health services especially dementia assessment and management. The post holder will work closely with wider older people community mental health services, sharing experience and knowledge to continually learn from each other.

Main duties of the job

Older peoples nursing can be overlooked, however the complexity of the skills required for care for a patient with dementia embodies what mental health care is about and pulls on every facet of our training and knowledge base.

Memory Assessment Team - Care Homes (MAT-CH) is mostly nurse led service which links with locality consultant colleagues for complex case interventions. You will be become an essential part of our multi-disciplinary team of Nurse Consultant, Service Manager, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Non-Medical Prescribers and Community mental health nurses, supported by our fantastic admin team.

As a team we feel it is vital to raise awareness around the need for more research, early intervention and sign posting, and you will play a vital role in this, using your existing expertise and supported with continuous learning from the supportive team.

This diverse range of specialities in the team allows us to work collaboratively with the aim of providing high quality and integrated care.

Please note that this is a community-based role, the successful candidate will need to have a full UK driving licence and access to their own car.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• A comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more

Job responsibilities

Individual competence and suitability will be explored within interview. It is vital that the successful candidate demonstrates values and behaviours reflective of those of our Trust and this is a focus of the interview process.

We are committed to ensuring the voice of service users is central to our work and you will be encouraged to take a full role in supporting this. We work closely alongside colleagues in wider specialist mental health services

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

We look forward to having you as part of our dynamic team.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker with the relevant registration
• Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor training (NMC registrants) or Practice Educator (AHP & Social Worker Registrants
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level (if professional registration is following a diploma level course)

Experience

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
• Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
• Demonstrable experience in assessment of mental health

Skills

• Excellent communication and engagement skills
• Competent assessment skills and effective analytical and decision making skills
• Care planning, risk assessment knowledge and skills

Knowledge

• The ability to use clinical assessment tools and outcome measure effectively and collaboratively
• An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national
• Up to date knowledge of legal and ethical frameworks including Mental Health Act

Other

• Ability and willingness to travel independently to meet the needs and requirements of the service

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.

£38,682 to £46,580 a yeargross per annum