Job summary
We are pleased to confirm due to a recent promotion we are looking to recruit a Community Mental Health Nurse to join our secondary care service. You will be based at Colne House in Watford. However, you will work flexibly away from the base for most of the working time seeing people in the own homes, in care homes or in GP surgeries. The administrative aspect of the job can be done remotely from home, from other sites, or at Colne House.
In this role you will be required to take responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and the setting of standards of care and management of a defined caseload, including liaison with other agencies and, where appropriate, the supervision, development and teaching of staff and/or students. You will also act as care co-ordinator to a case load of service users, ensuring the care plan is met at all times.
All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.
Main duties of the job
As the band 6 Community Nurse, you will be expected to:
- Be within the Community Team, and will have close links with our Crisis Function, Care Home Function, Early Memory Diagnosis and Support Service and Therapies - along with all the disciplines that work across and within them.
- Develop working relationships and links with GPs and other professionals and organisations that work within your PCN so that the people you see get the right care at the right time.
- As a team we regularly hold teaching and reflective sessions, and look to embed an open culture of learning through our governance. You will have regular supervision, and an appraisal that looks to support your development, helping you to think about what you would like to do after the fixed term ends.
- Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving).
Does this sound like you? If you are passionate about caring for older people in the community, then we are the right team for you.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Be responsible for the full assessment of care needs and risk assessment of service users presenting with a wide variety of clinical conditions.
- Responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, without direct supervision (though clinical supervision is implemented as per policy to support you).
- Be named care coordinator, and act accordingly when applying care
- Manage one self in a professional manner, responding to requests, enquiries etc in a timely fashion.
- Respond to any crisis that a service user may advise of, with the aim of promoting independent living in the community
- Work with the philosophy to support service users to remain in their own home.
- Administer and/ or supervise medications as required.
- Have a sound knowledge of medications and their desired and undesired effects
- Provide education, advise and guidance to service users and their carers and families.
- Provide a range of clinical interventions and treatments appropriate to the individuals needs.
- Participate fully in providing quality care in line with local and national guidelines.
- Act as a role model in providing a service for people with mental health problems.
- Participate in audit/research projects associated with the service.
- Required to challenge practice that compromises or challenges high quality care to older people
- Advise Team Manager of any resource short falls.
- Partake in continuing professional development that will also benefit the development and quality of the service.
- Remain updated with local and national guidelines and policies.
- Partake in home visits with other professionals such as Consultant Psychiatrist, Specialty Doctors, Social Workers etc
- Partake in clinical and management supervision
Person Specification
Knowledge/Training/Experience
Essential
- Degree, diploma or equivelent in Nursing (Mental Health Nursing).
- Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Mentorship Preparation Course.
- Two years post registration experience, with at least one year post registration experience in Adult Mental Health Care.
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
- Knowledge of legislation related to mental health and social care (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Care Act, Care Programme Approach etc)
- Sound knowledge of dementia, mental health in older people, and how CMHT interacts with nursing/residential homes
Desirable
- Pre or Post registration training/ short courses in mental health
- Community and InPatient nursing experience
- AMHP qualification
- Supervision skills
- Formal courses in dementia care
Communication Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills, verbally and in writing
- Excellent report writing skills
- Excellent documentation of duties performed.
Physical Skills
Essential
- Computer literacy skills in order to enter data onto electronic client records.
- Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)
Desirable
- Ability to work in a number of locations (eg. office, ward, nursin home, own home etc)
Analytical Skills
Essential
- Good range of problem solving skills.
- Good range of information gathering skills.
- Ability to assess and manage risks
- Experience in working with service users who present with frailty
- Maintaining a positive, non - judgemental attitude and therapeutic optimism towards working with people with personality disorder.
- Fine attention to detail
Desirable
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Colne House, 21 Upton Road, Watford, WD18 0JP
21 Upton Road
Watford
WD18 0JP