Senior Community Mental Health Nurse

NHS; Norwich; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a Senior Mental Health Nurse to join its dedicated Rehabilitation in Complex Psychosis Community Mental Health Service in Norwich. The role involves managing a caseload of service users, conducting assessments, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure effective rehabilitation. Successful candidates will play a crucial part in improving the lives of those with severe mental illness, emphasizing a recovery-focused approach. With attractive benefits like extensive training programs and generous annual leave, this position offers a rewarding career in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive in house & external training programmes

Career progression

Starting annual leave of 27 days, increasing to 33 based on service

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Experience working within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Knowledge of mental health practice and risk assessment.
• Ability to travel independently.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload while planning and assessing treatment for patients.
• Work collaboratively with a supportive MDT, providing assessments and treatment plans.
• Act as a keyworker for up to 15 service users, focusing on recovery.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Decision-making skills

Time management

Education

Nursing degree or equivalent RN(MH)

Mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake training

Leadership/Management training

Higher degree or post graduate certificate in clinical practice

Job description

Our innovative and award-winning Rehabilitation in Complex Psychosis Community Mental Health Service seeks a creative and flexible Senior Mental Health Nurse to join our team. The Rehabilitation in Complex Psychosis Team, based in Norwich, supports service users with complex and enduring severe mental illness in the Central Norfolk Locality. As a team we are passionate about creative engagement, and empowering service users with complex needs to achieve their Recovery goals.

The team is a pioneering multi-agency project, and along with NSFT colleagues (nursing, OT, psychology,psychiatryand pharmacy), we havefully integratedsubstance misuse support from CGL, social workers from Norfolk County Council,andrecovery and peer support workers from Together.As a caseload holding team, we provide rehabilitation support when and where a person needs it - in the community, in supported accommodation, or in-reaching to inpatient settings.

The successful candidate will be required to work with a caseload of service users and work collaboratively towards rehabilitation goals. This could mean working with people in their own homes, residential care and supported living settings as well as, on occasion, in-reaching to people who are in a mental health hospital bed.

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidate will have an interest in working within a busy and dynamic Community Mental Health Service. This is a clinically focussed post with emphasis on ensuring high quality clinical care provision and outcomes.

You will take a recovery focused approach to enable service users to live well and access their wider community. Service users will remain at the centre of the team's approach and they will support people who are eligible for the service wherever they are residing in the local area.

You will be expected to act as a source of advice and guidance to others in the team aligned with your your scope of practice. You can expect to act as a keyworker for a small number of service users (limited to 10-15) but will work with any service user who can benefit from your skills and experience. Successful candidates can expect to spend the vast majority of their working week in face to face contact with service users, making use of their specialist clinical skills.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

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 nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• 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

Within this role you will work with an established and supportive MDT. As with many services we currently use a blended model of virtual and face-to-face working which provides opportunities for flexibility. You will have knowledge, skills and experience of working across the range of complexity and severity in adult mental health.

We will expect the post holder to work collaboratively and flexibly with others to undertake assessments, develop and share psychological formulations and develop treatment plans.

You will be responsible for managing a caseload, assessing and planning treatment for your patients. Working with the patient to plan care and optimise treatment plans. Feeding back to the MDT and working within the team for the best outcome for the patient

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!

Person Specification

Qualifications

Nursing degree or equivalent RN(MH)

Mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake training

Evidence at social care / health related study

Experience

Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team

Familiar with risk assessment and its management

Previous experience of working with people with complex mental health needs

Skills / Knowledge

Ability to work regularly unsupervised

Good interpersonal and communication skills

Good observation and reporting skills

Ability to supervise others

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.

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Person Specification

Experience

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
• Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
• Experience working in the specific area

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist OR Social Worker with the relevant professional 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)
• Recognised Leadership/Management training
• Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice

Other

• Ability to travel independently

Skills

• Effective analytical and decision-making skills
• Care planning and Risk assessment knowledge and skills
• Able to time manage and reflect on clinical practice

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 - pro rata