An exciting opportunity has risen for a part time (30hrs) experienced Registered Mental Health Band 6 nurse to join our community mental health team for older adults in the Totton and Hythe area .
Our experienced MDT are innovative and forwarding thinking offering opportunities for the successful candidate to work across the Memory assessment service/CMHT and In reach pathways to deliver high quality person centred care to our client group and their carers and families.
The new forest is a beautiful and vibrant place to work and live with good access to the coast other amenities. We encourage and support professional development with the nearby Universities of Bournemouth and Southampton providing a range of courses and opportunities(including Non Medical Prescribing) for enhancing skills and knowledge to support career progression. We are open to flexible ways of working with hybrid working( a mixture of face to face and telephone assessments) to help balance your work and home life.
To act as care co-ordinator to an agreed caseload of patients with severe and enduring mental illness. To participate within the multi-disciplinary professional team in the relevant care group to deliver safe patient care. To be an active participant in the multi-disciplinary team, formulating care plans and utilising appropriate assessments. To work in partnership with families and carers to ensure the patient's holistic health needs are met.
Understand evidence based therapeutic interventions relevant to the client group to include education, clinical care, wellness recovery action plans and discharge planning.
To participate in regular clinical, and managerial supervision.
To supervise junior staff.
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.
Professional registration with the NMC.
Car Driver with business insurance.
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.
Mandy Kelly
mandy.kelly7@nhs.net
03003031730
Agenda for Change
Band 6
Permanent
Part-Time, Full-Time
348-SSW-11083
Oakley Road Millbrook Southampton Hampshire SO16 4GX
This vacancy is closed to applications.