Job summary
Mental Health Services for Older People (MHSOP) Nursing Home Team (NHT) and Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) are recruiting motivated, innovative and critical thinking, dedicated practitioners to the team. This is rare opportunity; once part of the MHSOP team, clinicians tend to choose to stay in the service. This demonstrates the great working environment, team culture and pride in the excellence of care we provide to our local community.
MHSOP comprises organic and functional inpatient wards, Psychiatric Liaison Team, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, service specific social worker team, and Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs). The NHT is one of the three CMHTs.
We provide the highest quality, patient focused, person centred care planning, care co-ordination. You will work autonomously and demonstrate excellent ability in assessment and care planning including patient needs and risk. Providing training and education to the care homes is also part of the NHT role.
Informal chat and visits are encouraged.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
Working as a community mental health practitioner your role will be to undertake the assessment and management of services users presenting with complex mental health care needs.
You will provide a comprehensive assessment of need, offering intervention, advice and support to service users, family, carers and other professionals involved in their care.
As part of the multidisciplinary team, you will ensure that care and treatment is delivered to a I high quality, ensuring that person centred care is deliver, risk are managed and appropriate treatment and other interventions (pharmacological and non-pharmacological) are offered within a timely manner.
You will contribute to the effective care planning of the service user's needs by providing regular reviews, risk assessment with the goal of working towards safe discharge planning.
You will practice in accordance with the Trust's Values: Respect, Everyone's Contribution Counts, Responsibility & Accountability, Patients First, Safe & High Quality Care.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To be responsible for the Assessment and Management of casework of service users who have substantial and complex needs.
- Provide specialist clinical advice to Service Users/Carers, staff, statutory agencies, 3rd sector partner agencies and the public.
- In collaboration with the Service User and Carer where appropriate, develop Recovery and Wellbeing focused Care Plans, ensuring regular reviews to monitor progress and adapt Care Plan as necessary.
- To consider Carer needs and ensure Carer and family are involved in Care Planning where appropriate.
- To deliver evidenced based Clinical and Psychologically based Interventions.
- The post holder will work as a member of the Multi-disciplinary Team ensuring that high quality individualised care is delivered which ensures safety and a commitment to promoting recovery and wellbeing and maximising independence.
- Coordinate Treatment Planning & Interventions, Reviews and Discharge Planning.
- Provide clinical supervision to staff as delegated by Team Manager.
- To provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity.
- To incorporate a client centred philosophy into nursing practice and client centred collaborative care.
- Work flexibly to meet the needs of Service Users across pathways which may regularly include working extended and flexible hours over 7 days a week.
- Demonstrate flexibility in the role. This may involve working across clinical pathways to support the needs of the service, whilst ensuring the delivery of high quality care at all times.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching topromote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To be responsible for the Assessment and Management of casework of service users who have substantial and complex needs.
- Provide specialist clinical advice to Service Users/Carers, staff, statutory agencies, 3rd sector partner agencies and the public.
- In collaboration with the Service User and Carer where appropriate, develop Recovery and Wellbeing focused Care Plans, ensuring regular reviews to monitor progress and adapt Care Plan as necessary.
- To consider Carer needs and ensure Carer and family are involved in Care Planning where appropriate.
- To deliver evidenced based Clinical and Psychologically based Interventions.
- The post holder will work as a member of the Multi-disciplinary Team ensuring that high quality individualised care is delivered which ensures safety and a commitment to promoting recovery and wellbeing and maximising independence.
- Coordinate Treatment Planning & Interventions, Reviews and Discharge Planning.
- Provide clinical supervision to staff as delegated by Team Manager.
- To provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity.
- To incorporate a client centred philosophy into nursing practice and client centred collaborative care.
- Work flexibly to meet the needs of Service Users across pathways which may regularly include working extended and flexible hours over 7 days a week.
- Demonstrate flexibility in the role. This may involve working across clinical pathways to support the needs of the service, whilst ensuring the delivery of high quality care at all times.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching topromote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- o Professional Qualification and current Professional Registration as, a First Level Registered Nurse (RNMH, RMN) or equivalent as an AHP, Social Worker or Clinical Psychologist
- o Mentor Training.
- o Evidence of post-registration training in clinical/ psychological interventions / skills relevant to the post.
- o Proven track record of post registration clinical experience relevant to the post.
- o Training in Safeguarding, MAPPA (Multi Agency Panel for the Protection of Vulnerable Adults) and Child Protection
- Up-to-date knowledge/experience of relevant legislation.
Experience
Essential
- o Previous band 5 qualified nurse experience dependent upon service need or 24 months post-registration as an AHP, Social Worker or psychologist.
- o Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team with patients who have mental health diagnosis.
Experience
Desirable
- Experience of working within a community team
- Experience of working within older adults in a functional / organic mental health pathway.
- Experience of working in a community setting.
- Experience of working with patients who are experiencing a mental health crisis.
- Experience of undertaking audit.
- Experience of change management process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- o Professional Qualification and current Professional Registration as, a First Level Registered Nurse (RNMH, RMN) or equivalent as an AHP, Social Worker or Clinical Psychologist
- o Mentor Training.
- o Evidence of post-registration training in clinical/ psychological interventions / skills relevant to the post.
- o Proven track record of post registration clinical experience relevant to the post.
- o Training in Safeguarding, MAPPA (Multi Agency Panel for the Protection of Vulnerable Adults) and Child Protection
- Up-to-date knowledge/experience of relevant legislation.
Experience
Essential
- o Previous band 5 qualified nurse experience dependent upon service need or 24 months post-registration as an AHP, Social Worker or psychologist.
- o Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team with patients who have mental health diagnosis.
Experience
Desirable
- Experience of working within a community team
- Experience of working within older adults in a functional / organic mental health pathway.
- Experience of working in a community setting.
- Experience of working with patients who are experiencing a mental health crisis.
- Experience of undertaking audit.
- Experience of change management process.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
