Job summary
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 5
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
Mental Health Services for Older People are seeking Band 5 Community Mental Health Nurses to join the community teams based at North Tyneside General Hospital.
Would you like the opportunity to join our Northumbria Family and work in a service where two days are never the same? Learn new skills or develop the skills you already have to provide high quality care to patients whose needs cannot be met in Primary Care?
We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic mental health nurses (RNMH) nurses who have a passion for mental health nursing in the community.
We have an excellent staff training programme and look forward to new staff embracing the development and skills our service has to offer. We work Monday to Friday 9 - 5. We have a wide range of skills and experience within our team which make it the perfect environment to develop your skills through hands on experience and challenges!
Main duties of the job
Duties include delivery of mental health nursing care to a caseload of patients and to provide verbal and written handovers to nursing colleagues and the multidisciplinary team.
This will involve working in patients homes and ensuring MDT informed evidence based care is provided and evaluated.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care working as a member of the ward team under the direction of the Team Manager.
To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
To be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries. You will be a team player with established skills in communication, organisation and with clinical management experience. You will have the ability to engage clinically with all members of the multi-disciplinary team. You will have in depth proven clinical knowledge and skills in caring for patients as well as working with the values of Northumbria Healthcare Trust.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse (must be registered with NMC)
- Evidence of post registration training and CPD
- Completed Preceptorship programme
- Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period)
Desirable criteria
- Training in psychosocial interventions ie: CBT, DBT, Family Therapy
- Other training relevant to role ie Substance Misuse; Trauma Informed Care; 5P’s Formulation; Dementia
- Evidence of training related to working with Older Adults
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team with patients who have mental health diagnosis
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a community setting
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
- Paul Mitchell
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2934278
- Additional information
Eddie O'Connor - Team Manager 0191 2934061
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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Northumbria House
Unit 7/8 Silverfox Way
Cobalt Business Park
NE27 0QJ
- Telephone
- 0191 203 1415
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