Community Mental Health Nurse

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience

YOUR APPLICATION

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Job overview

The North West Community Mental Health Team provides patient centred and compassionate care to people in North West Norfolk area with moderate to severe mental illness. Based at the Peddars Centre at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich we are looking for a caring and motivated Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurses to join us.

We are a team that prides itself on its team working and we value working together to meet the needs of service users. We work closely with psychology, psychiatry and staff from occupational health and Social Work and work hard to provide the opportunity to learn from each other.

As a band 5 nurse within the team, you would work with a defined and planned number of service users with moderate to severe mental illness who require care coordination. You would have opportunities to develop assessment skills, the direct provision of interventions and medicines management.

If you are looking for a highly functioning CMHT with caring colleagues and the opportunity to develop your career further, we’d love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

When you join us, you can expect to be supported in developing your skills and confidence in the band 5 role, there will be a minimum of two-week local induction

We fully support staff to particulate in the Trusts preceptorship program for newly registered nurses

You would have a development plan, personalised to your experience, strengths and identified development needs

We host regular reflective practice sessions, training days, clinical and management supervision.

We work Monday to Friday excluding bank Holidays

Working for our organisation

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.

We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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!

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Person specification

Qualifications

• Nursing degree or equivalent RN(MH)
• Membership qualification or willingness to undertake training

Experience

• CPA implementation

• Previous experience of working with mental health needs

Skills

• Ability to work regularly unsupervised
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Good verbal and written skills
• Good Observation and reporting Skills
• Ability to use own initiative
• Ability to display common sense and ability to display calm mature response to difficult situations
• Be self aware and have ability to learn
• Ability to motivate others
• Satisfactory Verbal and Written
• England Language Skills

• Ability to supervise others

Knowledge

• Understanding of issues surrounding confidentiality

• Awareness of security and its impact and willingness to expand knowledge on it
• Working knowledge/application of the Mental Health Act 1993

Other

• Ability to travel independently
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Fitness to undergo fitness PMA Training and perform full duties of the post
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Awareness and understanding equity and diversity issues
• Flexibility of duty and hours over a 24 hour 7 day week period
• Generally interested and motivated to work in a care environment

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.

DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)

FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.

Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.

The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.

This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £16 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.