Job summary
Are you interested in joining a specialist team?
Are you innovative and forward thinking, and committed to providingthe best service?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced RMN with an interest in older people's mental health and social care to join the Waltham Forest Older Adults Mental Health Team.
As an organisation NELFT strives to deliver services within a recovery - focusedand socially inclusive approach. The time is right for innovative clinicians to provide skilled input within a multidisciplinary team to support a culture of recovery and social inclusion.
The successful candidate will join an experienced and established team, delivering meaningful outcomes for service users and their carers, as well as using their evidence based clinical skills to manage a caseload of service users with frailty and functional mental illness or a primary diagnosis of dementia. You will have the opportunity to work flexibly within a diverse community in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, to develop quality services which improve the lives of local people.
The post is open to registered mental health nurses who are looking for a fantastic opportunity to develop their existing clinical skills or advance their career.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will use their evidence based clinical skills to support older adults with a dementia diagnosis or functional mental illness and frailty.
- You will care coordinate a caseload of service users that have complex and challenging needs and support them to achieve best quality of life.
- You will provide specialist nursing interventions in accordance with national guidelines and best evidence, also supporting families andcare providers.
- You will deliver recovery focused health and social care interventions that include managing risk and safeguarding concerns under the Care Act.
- You will receive regular professional and managerial supervision and be positivelyencouraged to accessa range of clinical and professional development opportunities within the Trust.
- We are committed to providing training where required including Dementia Care.
About us
COVID-19 Vaccination
We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement - London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436 per annum pro rata).
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key responsibilities:
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of clinical care, manage and deliver care to meet complex needs for service users under CPA.
- Building therapeutic working relationships with service users, their families and carers.
- Provide comprehensive mental health assessments for service users.
- To initiate and maintaincommunication with service users, carers, relatives, GPs, and otherprofessionals' and agencies as appropriate.
- Provide an effective alternative to hospital admission.
- To work jointly ad collaboratively across internal and external organisations
- Maintain professional registration, achieve and demonstrate agreed standards of personal and professional development.
- To work within a multi-disciplinary framework, promoting the principles of the Team.
The Waltham Forest Older Adult Mental Health Team is an experienced and innovative community team, which shows a strong commitment to deliveringhigh quality care.
Waltham Forest is a vibrant and diverse borough with excellent transport links. The team base at Red Oak Lodge is situated in a large Victorian building within a secure gated complex, and free onsite parking. The base isaccessible from Stratford(Overground, Central Line, Jubilee Line, C2C, TFL rail and DLR), Leyton- Central Line and Leytonstone High Road-Overground, Bus routes from the High Road Leytonstone include the 257 and 339, while Leyton High Road include the 58, 69, 97 and 158 routes.
The catchment area spans diverse communities, and you have the opportunity to participate in external partnership working, service development and the transformation of older adults service within the Borough.
If you are interested in career development specialising in working for older adults and ready for a new challenge, then we would like to hear from you.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key responsibilities:
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of clinical care, manage and deliver care to meet complex needs for service users under CPA.
- Building therapeutic working relationships with service users, their families and carers.
- Provide comprehensive mental health assessments for service users.
- To initiate and maintaincommunication with service users, carers, relatives, GPs, and otherprofessionals' and agencies as appropriate.
- Provide an effective alternative to hospital admission.
- To work jointly ad collaboratively across internal and external organisations
- Maintain professional registration, achieve and demonstrate agreed standards of personal and professional development.
- To work within a multi-disciplinary framework, promoting the principles of the Team.
The Waltham Forest Older Adult Mental Health Team is an experienced and innovative community team, which shows a strong commitment to deliveringhigh quality care.
Waltham Forest is a vibrant and diverse borough with excellent transport links. The team base at Red Oak Lodge is situated in a large Victorian building within a secure gated complex, and free onsite parking. The base isaccessible from Stratford(Overground, Central Line, Jubilee Line, C2C, TFL rail and DLR), Leyton- Central Line and Leytonstone High Road-Overground, Bus routes from the High Road Leytonstone include the 257 and 339, while Leyton High Road include the 58, 69, 97 and 158 routes.
The catchment area spans diverse communities, and you have the opportunity to participate in external partnership working, service development and the transformation of older adults service within the Borough.
If you are interested in career development specialising in working for older adults and ready for a new challenge, then we would like to hear from you.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.
Person Specification
A.C. as per Person Spec
Essential
- Experience
- Skills / Abilities
- Knowledge
- Qualifications / Registration
Desirable
Person Specification
A.C. as per Person Spec
Essential
- Experience
- Skills / Abilities
- Knowledge
- Qualifications / Registration
Desirable
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).
Employer details
Employer name
NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
Address
Waltham Forest Older Adults Community Mental Health Team
Red Oak Lodge 17 Thorne Close, Leytonstone
London
E11 4PH
Employer's website
https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
