This is an exciting opportunity to work as a Senior Community Mental Health Nurse within our Recovery Team.
You'll be part of a compassionate, forward-thinking service that places people at the heart of everything we do. This is an opportunity to work autonomously, build meaningful therapeutic relationships, and contribute to innovative approaches that support individuals on their recovery journey.
If you're looking for a role that values your clinical voice, nurtures your development, and empowers you to make a real difference, we'd love to welcome you.
Please note that this role requires you to travel around the city.
To work as a member of the integrated Multidisciplinary Mental Health Team in Portsmouth City providing a service to people with severe and enduring mental illness.
To effectively co-ordinate the care of a complex caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness and to act as a Lead Professional for Service Users with complex needs ensuring full implementation of the CPOC.
To provide recovery focussed therapeutic interventions in line with the agreed care plan and risk assessment and dialogue.
To assess risk, develop risk management plans, review, and adjust in line with the service user's needs.
To work in collaboration with service users as experts in their own care, promoting the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation, which value and empower the service user.
Positive risk management will take place, with recognition that the secondary care mental health service works with patients who may present long-term high risk of completing suicide. The service will work in accordance with relevant clinical guidelines and evidence-based practice.
CPOC and Care plans will include risk assessment and risk management plans, identifying sources of support if in crisis and if support is needed outside of office hours and required to ensure robust multi-disciplinary and / or multi-agency care planning.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Registered Mental Health Nurse registered to diploma level
NMC Registration
Training in psychosocial interventions.
Mentorship Phlebotomy training.
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Dawn Thisby
dawn.thisby1@nhs.net
03001233921
Agenda for Change
Band 6
Permanent
Full-Time, Flexible Working
348-PSE-11075
St.Mary's Community Health Campus (Portsmouth) Milton Road Portsmouth Hampshire PO3 6AD