Job summary
A fantastic opportunity has arisen in Hillingdon for highly motivated and enthusiastic Mental Health Nurse to join our Older Adult Community Mental Health Service as a Duty Worker.
The OA CMHT works with older adults covering the Hillingdon borough and the site is at The Woodland Centre; based beside The Hillingdon Hospital.
We are a service user led service and work with older adults that have mental health issues and require support with additional physical health needs.
Main duties of the job
The role of the Duty worker is to triage and complete assessment of new referrals into the teams, answering incoming duty queries, carrying out risk reviews and feeding back to the wider MDT with recommendations based on service user need.
The OACMHT is a multidisciplinary team, comprising of nurses, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers. The team is supported by good administrative systems and offers an excellent working environment.
The team has good links with local statutory and non-statutory services and works closely with our colleagues within acute mental health inpatients.
The post is for 37.5 hours a week and the OACMHT working hours are Mon-Friday 9am-5pm.
About us
What will you get?
- Regular individual supervision and reflective practice groups
- Training package to ensure continuous professional development
- Working within a dynamic team with visibility of the Senior Management Team
- Access to London Leadership Academy Coaching and Mentorship programmes
- A range of staff benefits including "kids pass", range of salary sacrifices schemes (including for electronic goods and 30% savings on a car), interest free loans and many more).
- Opportunities for flexible working
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
What we are looking for?
- Post registration experience of working with older adults with mental health problems and desirable experience of working with older adults in a community setting.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a sound understanding of current government legislation, demonstrate the ability to work as part of a MDT and provide high quality care with evidence based therapeutic assessments, interventions and completion of accurate and timely documentation.
- Specialist skills in mental health assessment, risk assessment, safety planning and medication administration.
- Car owner/driver would be ideal but not essential as it is about finding the right person
Job description
Job responsibilities
What we are looking for?
- Post registration experience of working with older adults with mental health problems and desirable experience of working with older adults in a community setting.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a sound understanding of current government legislation, demonstrate the ability to work as part of a MDT and provide high quality care with evidence based therapeutic assessments, interventions and completion of accurate and timely documentation.
- Specialist skills in mental health assessment, risk assessment, safety planning and medication administration.
- Car owner/driver would be ideal but not essential as it is about finding the right person
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Substantial post qualification experience
Desirable
- Evidence of post qualification education
Experience
Essential
- Mental health assessment, risk assessment and management
- Post registration experience
Desirable
- IT systems experience
- Supervising the work of others
- Older Adult Mental Health experience
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Substantial post qualification experience
Desirable
- Evidence of post qualification education
Experience
Essential
- Mental health assessment, risk assessment and management
- Post registration experience
Desirable
- IT systems experience
- Supervising the work of others
- Older Adult Mental Health experience
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).
