Community Mental Health Nurse Band 6 - Joint Homelessness Team
A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
Community Mental Health Nurse - Joint Homelessness Team
The Joint Homelessness Team are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and dynamic mental health nurse who can be clinically creative in engaging an often marginalized client group.
Your skills and abilities will enable you to work closely with other statutory mental health services, housing provider services and social care teams to deliver an assertive and responsive service throughout the rough sleeper pathway.
You will also gain experience of working closely with third sector, charitable and voluntary homeless services. The JHT work in many, varied settings and on any given day you may find yourself engaging clients at their sleep sites, hostels or day-centres in addition to the more usual community practice areas.
This post offers an excellent opportunity to develop and build upon existing clinical skills within the framework of a supportive multi disciplinary team.
If you are interested in working with the Joint Homelessness Team and have any questions you are invited to contact Haroun Kamara prior to applying on 0207 8544206 or email: harounkamara@nhs.net
To be you and to do what you do best in the job you love!
The successful applicant will take the lead of a caseload of patients and be at the forefront of their care. You will also be expected to work in collaboration with the Operational Team Manager, Clinical Leads/Senior Practitioners and to have close working relationships with the Inpatient Service and Home Treatment Team.
To help support you with the above we offer a robust induction and tailored training will be given and encouraged.As an employer, CNWL also offer various training opportunities, dependent on how long you are in post and your development needs as well as the CMHH offering internal training opportunities so that the team continues to learn and evolve their practice and support of their clients and each other.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
In return we can offer you the following; • Flexible shift workingopportunities for a healthierwork-life balance- Commitment from the team to develop you by offering coaching and in-house development sessionssuch as, Leadership programmes, non-medical prescribing, CBT-P training and much more
- Free access to our Staff and Wellbeing service to ensure that you are always looking after yourself
- Commitment to career mapping to ensurecontinuous professional developmentincluding opportunities within the Trust
- Shadowing opportunities including HTT, Psych Liaison and many more
- Local Reflective Practice forums run by one of the senior leads
- An opportunity to work with a friendly, dynamic, passionate and diverse team who are committed to looking after each other as well as their patients
- Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include:childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, blue light card, discounts at Nando's and Superdrug, mobile phone contracts and much more!
- Award-winning Staff Networks
- Hidden Gem & annual award ceremonies
**Please see full job description for further information**
Key Duties
Clients/Users- To make contact with homeless people in Day Centres and other voluntary organisations providing services for homeless people.
- To undertake individual comprehensive assessments of mental health housing and social care needs.
- To offer short-term intervention to link clients into mainstream services where appropriate.
- To undertake care management assessments and responsibilities for individual clients in relation to care planning.
- To carry an allocated caseload of clients with ongoing Care Management responsibilities for assessment, care, treatment and review for individual clients.
- To assist where necessary in rehabilitation programmes for individuals and groups.
- To advocate for clients in relation to access to services, including welfare benefits and housing and social care, and support with applications as required.
- To participate as a full member of the multidisciplinary team.
- To be familiar with all legislation and policies that relate to the team and apply correctly in practice. This will include all housing legislation and government homelessness initiatives in addition to national and local mental health policies and directives.
- To attend team meetings and support groups and other routine and specific meetings as required.
- To undertake joint work with other team members and to co-ordinate this if required.
- To contribute as required to the development of policies and procedures devised by the team.
- To take part in the weekly Duty Rota for the Advice and Referral service.
- To take part in regular reviews of team performance and goal setting.
- To undertake planned, regular contact sessions at specific agencies e.g. Day Centres, Hostels
- To develop good communication with agency staff as a basis for good working relationships.
- To represent the Joint Homelessness Team at agency meetings if requested to do so.
- To offer informal consultation on mental health issues to agency staff.
- To offer formal training sessions to external agencies on mental health and homelessness issues if requested to do so.
- To develop and maintain effective joint working arrangements with colleagues in mainstream Health and Social and Community Services Departments to ensure a comprehensive and co-ordinated service.
This advert closes on Friday 18 Oct 2024