Senior Community Clinician

Job summary

You will work as a Band 6 Senior Community Nurse with the NE Home First Team in providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic assessments to patients in line with your NMC professional code of conduct and Trust policies.

You will assess, plan, implement and evaluate packages of care based upon individual service user needs, under the guidance of the Team Leader as per NICE guidance.

The team works closely with the 2 other teams which form the Urgent Care Pathway - Hospital Liaison and Crisis Response team - to respond to urgent and emergency mental health crisis.

Assessments can be completed within the community and ability to drive is essential. The Team have use of a lease car.

As required by your manager, you will have responsibility for the day to day co-ordination of the shifts within the NE Home First Team.

You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering services; providing a 7-day a week, 24-hours a day service for 365 days a year working shifts where appropriate and operationally required.

Shifts are 11.5 hours with an hour break time.

Main duties of the job

? Produce accurate and timely documentation on all service users in line with your professional code of conduct and Trust policy.? Triage of referrals received and to ensure a timely response and accurate allocation of referrals received according to risks.? Participate in the planning and ongoing review of service users either awaiting assessment or allocation for continuing care to ensure care provided is effective and safe? Provide practical support, advice, signposting and education to service users, carers and other disciplines.? Have an awareness of other statutory and voluntary service provisions to signpost service users for appropriate care.? Responsible for the recording of all patient related activity information onto Paris.? Provide education and support to develop service users understanding of mental illness.? Support the induction and ongoing development of newly qualified nursing staff.

About us

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

• Season Ticket Loans
• NHS discounts for staff
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
• Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.