Job summary
Bank RMN Community Nurses Band 6
Do you enjoy caring for people?
Do you want the flexibility to determine your own shift pattern?
Do you already have experience, but would like to broaden your clinical experience; working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver a wide range of care?
We are inviting passionate and committed individuals to join our Trust's Staff Bank.
We are looking for motivated, skilled, and experienced Registered Mental Health Nurses (RMNs) to work in our community setting.
The BANK RMN under the direction of a nurse in charge, is accountable for the provision, organisation, and direction of safe and person centred nursing care approaches for patients.
Main duties of the job
To cover shifts in various departments across Oxleas Trust where the Multi-Disciplinary Team have
identified that a Registered Mental Health Nurse is required to provide care to patients with complex
and enduring mental health needs.
Care Coordinators working with people with rehabilitation needs should ensure they are competent in:
o Engagement
o Working with a biopsychosocial formulation
o Assessment skills
o Using explanatory models of illness
o Knowledge of Mental Health diagnosis
o Explaining treatment options
o Negotiating skills
o Skills for working with families of people with psychosis
o Conflict management and conflict resolution.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
A manual of self-management programme should be developed and delivered face-to-face with service
users, as part of the treatment and management. Self-management programmes should include:
Information and advice about psychosis
Effective use of medication
Identifying and managing symptoms
Accessing mental health and other support services
Coping with stress and other problems
What to do in a crisis
Building a social support network
Preventing relapse and setting personal recovery goals.
Care Coordinators should be skilled in working with recovery-based approaches to care planning. Theyshould be able to work flexibly and creatively with people in order to achieve their individual goals,supporting them across a range of health and social care needs, including housing, benefits and debt advice.
Care coordinators will also deliver family intervention when trained and supervised in delivery. Care Coordinators working with people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds should ensure they are competent in addressing cultural and ethnic differences in beliefs regarding biological, social and family influences on the causes of unusual mental states, treatment expectations and adherence.
Job description
Job responsibilities
A manual of self-management programme should be developed and delivered face-to-face with service
users, as part of the treatment and management. Self-management programmes should include:
Information and advice about psychosis
Effective use of medication
Identifying and managing symptoms
Accessing mental health and other support services
Coping with stress and other problems
What to do in a crisis
Building a social support network
Preventing relapse and setting personal recovery goals.
Care Coordinators should be skilled in working with recovery-based approaches to care planning. Theyshould be able to work flexibly and creatively with people in order to achieve their individual goals,supporting them across a range of health and social care needs, including housing, benefits and debt advice.
Care coordinators will also deliver family intervention when trained and supervised in delivery. Care Coordinators working with people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds should ensure they are competent in addressing cultural and ethnic differences in beliefs regarding biological, social and family influences on the causes of unusual mental states, treatment expectations and adherence.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
- 2 years Community Experience
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 3 years post registration
- Experience of supervising junior staff
- Experience of working in a multi disciplinary team
- Experience of working with adults with Mental Health problems
Desirable
- Experience of liaising with other agencies
Skills
Essential
- Knowledge and skills in the management of clients on Clozapine & Depot medication
- Experience of being able to work within policy frameworks in a regulated patient care setting
- Excellent Communication Skills
Desirable
- Experience of facilitating/planning/supporting groups in a healthcare setting/smoking cessation/activities
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
- 2 years Community Experience
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 3 years post registration
- Experience of supervising junior staff
- Experience of working in a multi disciplinary team
- Experience of working with adults with Mental Health problems
Desirable
- Experience of liaising with other agencies
Skills
Essential
- Knowledge and skills in the management of clients on Clozapine & Depot medication
- Experience of being able to work within policy frameworks in a regulated patient care setting
- Excellent Communication Skills
Desirable
- Experience of facilitating/planning/supporting groups in a healthcare setting/smoking cessation/activities
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
