Community Mental Health Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Eastbourne Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (Specialist Adults) for a Registered Mental Health Nurse with experience of working in a community mental health setting. We are looking for three confident nurses to help us improve and enhance our access (triage), response and planned treatment offer.

Our service is a multi-disciplinary service for adults with multiple and enduring mental health needs. As a nurse in our service, you will be focussed on improving outcomes for service users, working creatively with them and their families and carers to co-create care plans that will help them achieve their goals and live as independently as possible. You will also work closely with other services within Sussex Partnership, our Core Neighbourhood Team as well as with other aligned and partner agencies.

As a nurse within our team, you will become part of a much more integrated network of services and will be central in driving and continuing to develop our Neighbourhood model in close partnership with our Primary and VCSE colleagues.

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Main duties of the job

The role of Community Mental Health Nurse is to work in partnership with service users in the designated care group with multiple mental health presentations and working alongside service users to develop their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives. You will demonstrate an understanding of Triage and Assessment, as well as clinical interventions relevant to the care group to include education, care plans and discharge planning, working closely with carers, families and partner agencies to facilitate this.

Post holder Expectations

• Be an active participant in the multi-disciplinary team, formulating care plans and utilising appropriate assessments.
• Take part in all quality initiatives actively supporting and participating in both policies and service developments in the specific care group.
• Carry a caseload, actively working with other involved agencies, families and carers.
• Assess, plan and implement care, and provide specialist nursing advice and carry out specialist nursing procedures.
• Participate in regular clinical, professional and managerial supervision.
• Provide clinical supervision to junior staff and act as a mentor for student nurses.
• Maintain and contribute to standards of professional care, ethics, policies and procedures.
• Contribute to improve access for patients to local generic health care services, primary, secondary and specialist services.
• Maintain record keeping within Trust guidelines, national standards and NICE.

About us

As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of their staff, their reward packages reflect the immensely important work their staff do. If you are looking for the opportunity to work within a busy but rewarding NMHT service in a seaside town like no other, then we would love to hear from you. Eastbourne is a vibrant seaside town, offering affordable coastal living along with independent shopping and a variety of cafes, bars and restaurants and a very creative music and artistic scene.

Benefits

• Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes
• Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
• Flexible working patterns
• Reimbursed parking
• Child care vouchers
• Access to a host of NHS discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
• A position within a trust rated as 'Outstanding' for caring and 'Good' overall by the CQC
• Generous holiday entitlement (dependent on length of NHS service) starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays
• NHS Pension contributions

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Job responsibilities Essential Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current registration appropriate to the job role.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.

Essential Knowledge

• Experience of working alongside people with complex mental health needs in the designated care group.
• Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of mental health problems.
• Experience of working consultatively with other professionals.
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments.
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies.
• Experience of working within the CPA process.
• Knowledge of MHA (1983/2007).
• Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act (2005), to include practical knowledge of FACE documentation, DOLS and Best Interest decisions.
• Child and Adult safeguarding procedures.
• Change management and organising and prioritising their workload.
• Demonstrate ability to enhance care through evidence based knowledge.
• Demonstrate professional development relevant to the specific care group.

Person Specification

• Registered Nurse with current registration Mental Health/LD .
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group.
• Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group.
• Experience of supervising staff.
• Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems.
• Experience of working consultatively with professionals.
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments.
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies.
• Experience of working within the CPA process.
• Previous experience of working in the community.

This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).

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.

Eastbourne Neighbourhood Mental Health Team St Mary's House

Eastbourne Neighbourhood Mental Health Team St Mary's House