Senior Community Mental Health Nurse

3 weeks ago

Ipswich, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner to join our MSNAP Accredited Memory Assessment Service.

The Memory Assessment Service East (CMAS) is nurse-led with a strong emphasis on multi-disciplinary team working to ensure that users of the service receive high quality, compassionate care throughout their memory assessment process. The team is comprised of a Psychiatric Consultant, Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Associate Psychologist, Occupational Therapists, Non-medical prescribers, nurses and clinical support workers, and excellent admin support.

The service is proud of being dynamic, responsive, and proactive to the changing needs of the local population and its service users. We work closely with other multi- agencies services such as Dementia Connect.

The team is currently embracing the upcoming changes of rebranding of the service to Suffolk Dementia Assessment Service East thus supporting the vision of aligning and accredited both East and West Memory Services to the same standard of quality of care across Suffolk. This is a fantastic time to be part of the development of this ambitious plan.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will join a service with a positive team culture, focused on learning, developing, improving and supporting each other as well as our service users. Staff wellbeing and development are key priority areas.

General responsibilities include:

- Completing holistic assessments that include the application of a Cognitive Testing tool (training provided). These are undertaken at patient facing clinics or home visits.

- Undertaking Duty/Triage role on a rota basis

- Attending a weekly Diagnostic Formulation MDT meeting to review the outcomes of assessments completed

- Will be delivering diagnoses to service users (Training provided)

- Participating in regular team teaching/ development opportunities thus supporting sharing of best practices.

- Supporting students on placement with the service as either practice assessor and/or supervisor.

- Supporting the facilitation of post-diagnostic groups

- Monthly management and clinical supervision is provided.

- Participation in service development

- Participation in research projects

- Development of robust relationships with partner agencies and services.

-Maintain professional registration and completing of CPD as necessary.

- The role allows for hybrid working where you will be expected to be able to work autonomously and manage your time well.

-You must be able to be able to travel to various locations across Suffolk.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Individual competence and suitability will be explored within interview as per above information. It is vital that the successful candidate demonstrates values and behaviours reflective of those of our Trust.

Furthermore, to have a good knowledge and understanding of Dementia and impact on service users and their loved ones is crucial in the work we do. We are committed to ensuring the voice of our service users is central to our work and you will be encouraged to take a full role in supporting this. We work closely alongside colleagues in wider specialist mental health services.

In addition please see attached Job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent

Experience

Essential

Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience

Skills

Essential

Able to effectively prioritise own work load

Knowledge

Desirable

Developing knowledge of local wider systems and networks

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