Mental Health Nurse

East of England, East of England

Permanent

£35,392 to £42,618

Health Educator

Mental Health Nurse

Job summary

Solent NHS Trust have an exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Practitioner to join the Assessment to Intervention team (A2i). You must be a qualified Registered Mental Health Nurse.

"After working as an Inpatient Mental Health Nurse with working aged adults for nearly 7 years, I was looking for a role to work around my home life whilst still contributing to our patients experiences within Mental Health care. I feel well supported by my management team with regular check-ins and meetings to discuss my case load and the team have been approachable and welcoming in helping me find my feet as an autonomous practitioner. Mental Health care is challenged and stretched but our A2i team work positively to put our patients at the heart of everything we do." - Nichola is proud to be Solent and you could be too!

Working in Portsmouth offers a diverse inner-city client base where we provide assessments and interventions to individuals who present with a range of mental health needs. We are the access point for Adult Mental Health by assessing and working with our patients to access the most appropriate services which are tailored to support their mental health and social care needs.

We're passionate about providing you with opportunities to develop and have a wide range of therapies and treatments to train in to continue your learning, which can also be transferable across all other areas of Mental Health. We want you to be the best you can be, to deliver the best to our patients.

Main duties of the job

To work as a member of the A2i Team in Portsmouth City providing an assessment service and up to 6 months follow to people with severe and enduring mental illness.
To act as a lead professional for Service Users with complex needs ensuring full implementation of the Care Programme Approach Policy
To provide recovery focussed therapeutic interventions in line with the agreed care plan and risk assessment.
To assess risk, develop risk management plans, review, and adjust in line with the service user's needs.
To work in collaboration with service users as experts in their own care, promoting the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation, which value and empower the service user.

About us

We have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by the end of 2024.

Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.

The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on the day the trust is formed. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical and Professional

To ensure the maintenance of a high standard of care to working age adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and act as lead professional to an agreed number of cases. . Ensuring the implementation and review of appropriate care and treatment meeting the needs of Service Users in an effective, efficient and recovery focussed approach
To offer comprehensive needs assessment and care plan, Risk assessment, Dialog assessment ensuring the implantation and review of appropriate care and treatment meeting the needs of Service Users in an effective, efficient and recovery focussed approach.
To discuss cases at an MDT level with a high standard of presentation
To be able work as a team member in a flexible facilitative manner.
To be Care Act Compliant, Social Workers will be expected to arrange, cost and purchase Social Care within the financial framework and procedures.
To maintain a commitment to service user and carer empowerment and to assist and encourage the development of initiatives which facilitate their involvement in their care and at wider service planning
Organise and arrange, chair, CPA meetings, Professional Meetings, MDT, Case Conferences, and other clinical meetings as indicated.
Develop, support and mentor new staff including students, trainees and support staff
Chair Professional Meetings, MDT, Case Conferences and other clinical meetings as indicated
To be able work as a team member in a flexible facilitative manner
Fully comply with Data Protection requirements, Freedom of Information and Caldicott Guidelines
Participate in audit process and in the implementation of any recommendations made
Participate in development and implementing service standards in line with Service Developments as required
Contribute to the educational programme and ensure that mandatory, statutory, and personal development plan training is undertaken.
Ensure active participation in supervision, scoping in reflective practice, hold a caseload management, Therapy supervision, personal development, and appraisal reviews.

Communication

To develop a professional relationship with service users based on principles of recovery.
To comply with requirements to monitor and record agreed outcome measures and key performance indicators e.g., mental health minimum data set.
To accurately record all contacts with service users in the S1 electronic record in line with Solent NHS record keeping policy. Including providing and receiving complex, sensitive or contentious information.
To ensure effective communication with service users, relatives and carers, visitors, staff, and others. At times managing hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmospheres.
To ensure that all communication takes place in a manner that is consistent with legislation, policies, and procedures.
To discuss cases at an MDT level with a high standard of presentation
To respond to questions or concerns from service users and carers in a timely and professional manner.
To maintain up-to-date HoNOS and clustering assessments re. PbR.
To be aware of own behaviour and professional boundaries with both service users and colleagues and ensure these are in accordance with Trust policy.

Administrative

The Trust is committed to providing a high-quality service through the effective management and development of its employees. The Performance Appraisal process ensures that the Trust is able to achieve its key aims of delivering cost effective, high quality and responsive healthcare, whilst enabling employees to understand how the outcome of their contribution fits within these overall aims.
All staff have the responsibility to support all learners and to keep their knowledge of supporting learners in practice up to date, according to appropriate governing bodies regulations.

Knowledge, Education and Training

To lead the development, maintenance, and monitoring of service standards, collect and collate data/ information effectively for the purpose of audit, research and service performance.
To identify, implement and evaluate, with others, areas for potential service improvement and agrees further action.
To ensure structures are in place for effective appraisal, personal development and performance management and audit these regularly.
To assist the team leader in ensuring a safe roster in the clinical area.
To assess and plan care in a manner that is consistent with evidence-based practice, policies and procedures and the management of risk.
To take all possible precautions to safeguard the welfare and safety of staff, service users, visitors, and the public, by implementing all policies related to health, safety, security, and risk.
To ensure compliance by self and staff of the Trust's Standing Orders, Standing Financial Instructions, Policies, Procedures and Guidelines, including taking all reasonable steps to manage and promote a healthy working and diverse working environment.
To adhere to professional confidentiality standards.

Management and Leadership

To receive clinical supervision and actively participate in appraisal and performance development.
To adhere to the appropriate code of professional conduct for their professional background.
To ensure attendance at all Trust essential and mandatory training.
To identify own development needs and set personal development objectives in collaboration with appraiser, in line with service priorities.
To demonstrate the achievement of competencies through the collection of evidence within a personal portfolio.
To participate in the orientation and induction of all staff new to the service.
To contribute positively to the experience of learners within the service and to undertake the role of a sign off mentor if a registered nurse.
Maintain professional responsibilities in line with the professional regulation required of your professional body (i.e. NMC, HPC.)
Provide supervision for unqualified staff within the team
Act in the absence of the Clinical Manager if required to do so

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Be qualified to degree level, post graduate or equivalentRegistered Mental Health Nurse

Experience

Essential

Previous experience of working with users and carers using a recovery approachDemonstrate understanding and experience of using the Care Programme Approach, risk assessment and managementAbility to use information technologyExperience of mental health serviceImplementing Care Programme Approach (CPA)Knowledge of liaison role between the residential/community teamsKnowledge of working with clients with a severe and enduring mental illnessExperience of working in a multi-agency environmentProven experience working in mental health services

Additional Criteria

Desirable

Skills
Experience of supervising junior staff
Knowledge
Understanding of voluntary/statutory organisations in mental healthKnowledge of good practice models of community based mental health care

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.