Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual who is experienced in complex mental health care to join our specialist team at Pinetree Lodge as a Nursing Support Practitioner!
To be successful in the role, you will be passionate about delivering person-centred dementia / mental health care, possessing good communication and interpersonal skills and will have recent experience caring for people with dementia, preferably as a Support Worker.
Due to limits on our certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This is regularly reviewed.
Main duties of the job
You will be joining our team of hard-working and caring professionals within Pinetree Lodge, a 24-hour specialist mental health care unit for older people commissioned by the NHS. Your main role will be assisting our residents who have complex mental health needs and/or dementia in the general domestic routine of their home and providing clear and positive leadership to our team of Support Workers. Please note, you will work on a shift rota basis, which could be any time 24/7.
We are looking for people who embody our values of compassion, accountability, respect, excellence and innovation which sit at the heart of everything we do. We are here so nobody struggles alone, and you will be an essential part of this.
About us
We are proud to have been recognised and certified as a Great Place to Work, which speaks volumes on how much we value our staff members. In return for the hard work and dedication from our teams, we offer the following benefits:
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 32 days at 5 years service) and the option to purchase or sell day
- Enhanced pension
- Wagestream-ability torelease earnings, giving youinstant access to your pay
- Smart Clinic Wellbeing Programme, including Employee Assistant Programme, GP and priority physiotherapy access and counselling sessions Shopping discounts with the opportunity to sign up for a Blue Light Card
- Enhanced life assurance scheme, payment being three times your annual salary
- Plus, many more great benefits on offer!
Here at Everyturn Mental Health we champion equality, diversity and inclusion within the organisation by ensuring our opportunities are open to all and our approach is inclusive. We positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.
We welcome you to be yourself at work and have a range of Colleague Networks for members and allies of the LGBTQ+; Black, Asian and minority ethnic; menopause and neurodivergent communities.
In order to streamline our recruitment process, once we have received a sufficient number of applications, we reserve the right to expire vacancies.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide a service that meet the needs of service users and their carers
inclusive of all required patient records in order to provide high quality
support services.
- Provide administration Clinical and dispensing of medication under the
direction of medical and nursing professionals and/or manufacturers
guidelines. Support nurses during medication round.
- Prepare for and join GP and psychiatrist reviews and district nurses on
their visits under the direction of the Clinical Lead. Document outcomes of
visit to support the patient.
- Coordinate with family members regularly attending meetings as required
and at times offering counselling and support to the patient.
- Support and enable colleagues to meet the needs of patients who express
themselves through difficult or challenging behaviour. Ensure that these
approaches are linked to nursing support plans.
- Coach and mentor the support workers in order to support with the
individual development of each support worker in the team.
- Support the Staff Nurse to ensure that the service meets all relevant
quality standards, related to professional regulatory bodies.
- Undertake any reasonable duties/responsibilities to meet the needs of the
organisation
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide a service that meet the needs of service users and their carers
inclusive of all required patient records in order to provide high quality
support services.
- Provide administration Clinical and dispensing of medication under the
direction of medical and nursing professionals and/or manufacturers
guidelines. Support nurses during medication round.
- Prepare for and join GP and psychiatrist reviews and district nurses on
their visits under the direction of the Clinical Lead. Document outcomes of
visit to support the patient.
- Coordinate with family members regularly attending meetings as required
and at times offering counselling and support to the patient.
- Support and enable colleagues to meet the needs of patients who express
themselves through difficult or challenging behaviour. Ensure that these
approaches are linked to nursing support plans.
- Coach and mentor the support workers in order to support with the
individual development of each support worker in the team.
- Support the Staff Nurse to ensure that the service meets all relevant
quality standards, related to professional regulatory bodies.
- Undertake any reasonable duties/responsibilities to meet the needs of the
organisation
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with people who have enduring and complex mental health needs, who can present with behaviours that challenge.
- Experience of working with families and non-professional carers.
- Experience of working in a community-based setting.
Desirable
- Experience working within a commercial charity/social enterprise.
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE Maths and English minimum Grade C (or equivalent qualification).
- NVQ Level 3 (or greater) in Health and Social Care this will be essential to the role, but if you do not have this, you must be prepared to be undertake this course within the role.
- Safe medicate this will be essential to the role, but if you do not have this, you must be prepared to undertake this course within the role.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Knowledge and awareness of issues relating to mental health.
- Knowledge and awareness of the principles of person-centred care and overall (mental and physical) wellbeing.
- Able to recognise safeguarding issues and maintain appropriate boundaries.
- Genuine desire to work with this client group.
- Ability to work positively in difficult and unpredictable circumstances.
- Able to work under pressure/possess a high level of emotional resilience.
- Able and willing to regularly work without direct supervision, using initiative.
- Able to develop good working relationships with and among colleagues.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Good IT skills.
- Good organisation skills and able to prioritise workload.
Desirable
- Knowledge of mental health delivery in wider NHS organisations.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with people who have enduring and complex mental health needs, who can present with behaviours that challenge.
- Experience of working with families and non-professional carers.
- Experience of working in a community-based setting.
Desirable
- Experience working within a commercial charity/social enterprise.
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE Maths and English minimum Grade C (or equivalent qualification).
- NVQ Level 3 (or greater) in Health and Social Care this will be essential to the role, but if you do not have this, you must be prepared to be undertake this course within the role.
- Safe medicate this will be essential to the role, but if you do not have this, you must be prepared to undertake this course within the role.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Knowledge and awareness of issues relating to mental health.
- Knowledge and awareness of the principles of person-centred care and overall (mental and physical) wellbeing.
- Able to recognise safeguarding issues and maintain appropriate boundaries.
- Genuine desire to work with this client group.
- Ability to work positively in difficult and unpredictable circumstances.
- Able to work under pressure/possess a high level of emotional resilience.
- Able and willing to regularly work without direct supervision, using initiative.
- Able to develop good working relationships with and among colleagues.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Good IT skills.
- Good organisation skills and able to prioritise workload.
Desirable
- Knowledge of mental health delivery in wider NHS organisations.
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.
