Bank - Mental Health Community Nurse

7 months ago


Essex, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

We are looking for experienced Community Mental Health Band 6 Nurses to work on a temporary basis, as and when required, who will support the team, department and organisation to achieve the Trust’s mission of “best care by the best people”.

You should be a Registered Mental Health Nurse with a minimum of 2 years post registration/qualification, good written and verbal communication skills, be able to work as part of a team and demonstrate an understanding of mental health issues with experience of dealing with emotional distress.

You will be able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate all aspects of care including working/liaising with multi-disciplinary teams and other agencies in the provision of care and have the ability to engage service users and relatives with empathy and compassion.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
1. Foster recovery through empowerment of service users and carers by involving the service user and carer in the planning of their care establishing and maintaining consistent supportive relationships, which encourage increased self-determination and responsibility for service users and their care.
2. Offer a range of evidence based interventions and risk management approaches enabling the service user and carers to reduce and manage symptoms and high-risk behaviour.
3. Be proactive, innovative and creative in delivering care, enabling the facilitation of service user’s recovery
4. Engage service users and carers in relapse prevention and crisis plans, providing intervention that maximizes the service user’s ability to resolve crisis and prevent hospitalization.
5. Facilitate early discharge from both inpatient and Home Treatment Team by providing regular, formal reviews.
6. Deliver a flexible and responsive service through practice that is dictated by service users/carers needs.
7. Work collaboratively and effectively with members of the multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with other agencies.
8. Deliver high quality care and provide solutions to service users with severe and enduring mental health problems.
9. Provide care within the Recovery Model of practice maintaining service users within their own environment in the community.

Working for our organisation

We operate a Temporary Staffing service and offer our Bank Staff excellent benefits including:

Competitive hourly rates and weekly pay; Access to paid annual leave and statutory sick pay; My Trust Benefits discount scheme; Access to the NHS pension scheme; Paid mandatory training; Opportunities for locally agreed training; PAMOVA training for Mental Health staff; Flexibility of hours/location; Priority over agency staff for booking shifts; Free uniform; Opportunity to apply for permanent posts.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The main duties of the job are outlined fully in the attached job description.

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.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

RGN

Experience

Essential criteria

Minimum of 2 years post

Skills

Essential criteria

Crisis resolution and management skills.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Provide a holistic service Working knowledge of Mental Health Act 1983,NHS and Community Care Act 1990

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.


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