Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to support local people living with mild to moderate mental health needs within our Primary Care Network (PCN). We are seeking a registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to play a key role in developing and delivering our enhanced primary care mental health offer.
You will join a friendly, established team committed to compassionate, patient centred care. Working across GP surgeries and primary care settings, you will triage and assess patients, provide brief psychosocial interventions, and signpost to appropriate services. You will offer specialist clinical advice to GPs, supporting safe, effective decision making and strengthening the interface between Primary and Secondary Mental Health Services.
You will be professionally accountable for your clinical practice and will contribute to the ongoing development of the Enhanced Primary Care Mental Health Team, with opportunities to deputise for the team lead when required.
Please note: One of the 4 days that the successful candidate will be required to work on is a Thursday, the remaining 3 days can be discussed at interview.
Main duties of the job
Clinical/Communication
*To participate in CMHT MDT meetings and MDT within a Primary care setting as required and deputise as chair if required.
*Communicating service user needs and be able to assist in prioritising the allocation of workload through the triage/referral's meetings. Deputising as chair when required.
*To assess risk, develop risk management plans, review and adjust in line with the service user's needs
*To work in collaboration with patients as experts in their own care, promoting the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation, which value and empower the service user
*To assess, coordinate and broker the needs of services users in primary care and other relevant agencies in partnership with the service user
*To accurately record all contacts with service users in the appropriate care system in line with the relevant record keeping policy
*To ensure effective communication with service users, relatives and carers, visitors, staff and others
*To ensure that all communication takes place in a manner that is consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
*To ensure that consent to intervention or assessment is sought in a manner that is meaningful to the service user and complies with legislation
*To respond to questions or concerns from service users and carers in a timely and professional manner
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Qualified as a registered mental health nurse
- *Mentorship course / evidence of CPD
- *Ability to fulfil travel requirements of the post
- *Clinical supervision training
- *More than 2 years' experience of working with clients with severe and enduring mental health needs
Desirable
- *Completion of in-depth safeguarding training
- *Additional qualifications in psychosocial interventions, substance misuse or brief interventions are desirable
Experience
Essential
- *Excellent assessment and risk assessment/crisis/contingency planning skills
- *Ability to triage referrals using clinical judgement skills
- *Awareness of common acute and long-term conditions seen in general practice
- *Evidence of effective team working and leadership skills
- *Evidence of effective interpersonal and communication skills (active listening, building empathy) and ability to negotiate and constructively challenge views and practices of other practitioners
- *Ability to organise self and others to achieve tasks
- *Ability to work autonomously
- *Ability to provide clinical supervision
- *Experience of mentorship (or equivalent) in practice
- *Working knowledge of the application of the Professional Code of Conduct/s
- *Working knowledge and application of the recovery model in collaboration with service users
- *Good IT skills
Desirable
- *Able to co-facilitate group work
- *Evidence of effective team working and leadership skills
- *Evidence of experience in education of nurses
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Confident, respectful, self-reliant, aware of personal boundaries, resourceful, imaginative, and enthusiastic
- *Able to contribute to team discussion and be respectful of others' views
- *Honest and trustworthy
- *Aware of personal and professional boundaries
- *Respect for service users and their carers
- *An understanding of the importance of service user involvement in their own care
- *Commitment to personalised, recovery-oriented care
- *Commitment to own continual professional development
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Qualified as a registered mental health nurse
- *Mentorship course / evidence of CPD
- *Ability to fulfil travel requirements of the post
- *Clinical supervision training
- *More than 2 years' experience of working with clients with severe and enduring mental health needs
Desirable
- *Completion of in-depth safeguarding training
- *Additional qualifications in psychosocial interventions, substance misuse or brief interventions are desirable
Experience
Essential
- *Excellent assessment and risk assessment/crisis/contingency planning skills
- *Ability to triage referrals using clinical judgement skills
- *Awareness of common acute and long-term conditions seen in general practice
- *Evidence of effective team working and leadership skills
- *Evidence of effective interpersonal and communication skills (active listening, building empathy) and ability to negotiate and constructively challenge views and practices of other practitioners
- *Ability to organise self and others to achieve tasks
- *Ability to work autonomously
- *Ability to provide clinical supervision
- *Experience of mentorship (or equivalent) in practice
- *Working knowledge of the application of the Professional Code of Conduct/s
- *Working knowledge and application of the recovery model in collaboration with service users
- *Good IT skills
Desirable
- *Able to co-facilitate group work
- *Evidence of effective team working and leadership skills
- *Evidence of experience in education of nurses
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Confident, respectful, self-reliant, aware of personal boundaries, resourceful, imaginative, and enthusiastic
- *Able to contribute to team discussion and be respectful of others' views
- *Honest and trustworthy
- *Aware of personal and professional boundaries
- *Respect for service users and their carers
- *An understanding of the importance of service user involvement in their own care
- *Commitment to personalised, recovery-oriented care
- *Commitment to own continual professional development
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).
