Senior Community Mental Health Nurse

NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; North End; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health service provider is seeking a skilled mental health practitioner to join their Memory Assessment Team – Care Homes. This role involves assessing mental health needs of older residents in various care homes, collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team, and providing tailored care planning. The position supports hybrid working opportunities and requires a full UK driving licence.

Benefits

New hire bonus

Flexible working base

NHS pension

Comprehensive training programs

Career progression opportunities

Annual leave starting at 27 days

Staff physiotherapy service

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Skilled mental health practitioner with a focus on older adults.
• Experience in community mental health services.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a car.

Responsibilities

• Visit service users in care homes to assess mental health needs.
• Work closely with a multi-disciplinary team.
• Provide bespoke care planning based on assessments.

Skills

Experience in working with older people

Knowledge of dementia assessment and management

Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team

Strong communication skills

Job description

About the role

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.

Key responsibilities

You will 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.

Why work for 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 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 cafés, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Benefits

• New hire bonus
• Flexible working base
• NHS pension
• A comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• Career progression and excellent development opportunities
• Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• Staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more