Job summary
- Main area
- Community Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Will be required to Work Shift Patterns (08:00 - 20:00))
- Job ref
- 364-A-7197-C
- Employer
- Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Basildon Mental Health Unit, Basildon
- Town
- Basildon
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum + 5% High Cost Allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Nurse - Home Treatment Team (South West Essex)
Band 5
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values
- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
Our strategic objectives
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Mental Health Nurse position within the Home Treatment Team – West, based in Basildon. We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic individual who is passionate about community mental health. The post holder will join an evolving team, and will be jointly responsible for the delivery of a high standard community care, forming part of a coordinated plan of home treatment to Service Users predominantly within their own homes.
*Previous applicants need not apply*
Main duties of the job
We provide intensive home support to service users aged 18 and over, through a range of referral routes, which include work with our community teams; liaison services and partner organisations to provide a range of support options for people experiencing mental health crisis.
The service ‘gate keeps’ all admissions to acute mental health wards, we endeavour to provide care in the least restrictive manner by offering an alternative to hospital admission through intensive home treatment. Where required, the team support planned admission to wards and facilitates timely discharge from inpatient care, working closely with wards to identify patients who could be better supported in their communities.
We are seeking a Community Mental Health Nurse to join our team of Consultant Psychiatrists, Junior Doctors, Nurses, and Support Workers providing rapid response for adults who are experiencing an acute psychiatric crisis
Appointed applicants will have access to clinical and managerial supervision, career development opportunities, enhancement for any unsocial hours of working.
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
- Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
Join our Staff bank
What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder carries responsibility for the assessment of care needs and their development, implementation and evaluation of programs of care for clients with mental health problems who are referred to the Home Treatment Team Service.
The post holder is responsible on a day-to-day basis to the Clinical Lead but ultimately accountable to the Matron for the overall service. In addition, they will be a member of a multi-disciplinary team and work in close co-operation with wards and community teams. They will be responsible for the maintenance of standards of care within the Home Treatment service; sharing responsibility for an integrated service provision to the clients and ensuring that a good inter-disciplinary working environment is maintained.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Professional Qualification (OT, Social Work, RMN)
- • Evidence of personal and professional development in contemporary mental health practice
Desirable criteria
- • Educated to Degree Level in Health
- • Additional Professional Qualification/ Experience - Dementia related
- • Allied Health & Mental Health Practitioner (Mental Health Act 1983)
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Able to take on broader responsibilities to improve own and others knowledge and skills
- • Evidence of the knowledge and skills in the use of information technology to support care and professional development
- • Good understanding of the Mental Capacity Act and its application in practice.
- • Good understanding of person centred care and the Recovery Model.
- • Good understanding of crisis resolution home treatment service provision
- • Good understanding of positive risk taking.
- • Good understanding of national policy and the implications for mental health e.g. crisis care concordat, parity of esteem.
- • Evidence of an understanding of the principle of governance and implications for professionals practice
- • Evidence of knowledge of professional nursing standards
- • IT competency
- • Car Driver /able to travel to all required locations and achieve service activity targets.
Skills/Experience
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of personal development e.g. in objective setting, time management, skills etc
- • Ability to plan ways of improving efficiency and cost effectiveness of clinical services
- • Ability to coordinate work to meet agreed targets and deadlines
- • Evidence of ability to prioritise workload and competing demands
- • Evidence of personal development
- • Ability to seek ways of improving individual’s performance by training, coaching and development
- • Ability to manage ‘difficult’ behaviour by listening, showing tolerance and remaining objective
- • Develop team spirit and inclusivity
- • Ability to identify barriers to change and developing plans to deal with them
- • Ability to work positively in uncertain situations
- • Ability to flexibly and some unsocial hours required
- • Ability to use own judgement confidently and decisively
- • Ability to know when to seek the support and guidance of more senior colleagues when necessary
- • Ability to maintain high standards of work
- • Able to instil confidence in others in the quality of their own work
- • Able to champion high standards of professional practice throughout the service area
- • Evidence of user focus in the organisation, delivery and evaluation of care
- • Experience in the use of risk assessment tools
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- • Ability to communicate effectively
- • Evidence of personal development
- • Ability to provide effective feedback to staff in a constructive manner
- • Ability to deal sensitively and decisively with conflict management
- • Ability to build relationships and negotiate satisfactory outcomes
- Develop a positive environment which supports continuous improvement
Corporate
Essential criteria
- • Full UK Drivers Licence
- • Ability to Travel across Trust sites as required
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Burns
- Job title
- Clinical Team Lead (Interim)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01268 243514
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