Band 6 Nurse
You will be working within the Urgent and Crisis and Home Treatment area of the Gleadless and Heeley Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre, working shifts of 8am – 8pm across 7 days per week on a rota basis.
You will join an exciting new team, one of the first 6 pilot sites across the UK to launch to the Neighbourhood Mental Health Model of care. The aim is to establish a coherent, functionally integrated team, working with the VCSE, social care and the local community to deliver high quality mental health care for all the people of Gleadless & Heeley aged 18 or over.
The Centre will embrace the 10 key principles highlighted for the NMHCs:
Trusted Relationships
Continuity of Care
Open Access
All Means All
Co- Produced
Citizenship & Belonging
Close to primary care and system partners
Neighbourhood based
Freedom, Autonomy & Choice
Do not harm.
The post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary home treatment team, sharing a base with CMHT, PCMHT, VCSE, peer workers and community groups.
Core responsibilities will include:
Comprehensive assessment of new referrals in crisis, intervention planning and care plan formulations.
Care planning for patients who are accessing the on site beds.
Service coordination duties include, understanding the roles of the team that day, which patients will be seen and identifying any gaps where services could be supported. Attending morning meetings/ referral meetings and Weekley MDT’s
Taking referrals from other services where the person is identified to be registered with a Heeley PCN GP.
Carrying out initial HTT visit to set up plan of care and interventions for the team
Link to other clinical areas such as inpatient and CMHT’s
Delivering supervision to more junior members of staff
Contribute to service development
We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.
What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.
It’s important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of
If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.
We are very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us.
General requirements
Maintain NMC registration and adhere to professional guidelines and code of conduct
Work within the framework of relevant policy and legislation both local and national
Principal duties
Clinical
Triage new referrals to the service
Carry out comprehensive assessments of an individual’s health and social care needs in a variety of settings and agree the most appropriate course of action
To assess, evaluate and manage clinical risk
To formulate a plan of care based on identified need
Deliver evidence based crisis interventions as appropriate
Review effectiveness of care plan at regular intervals
To work collaboratively with service users, carers and partner agencies
To coordinate the clinic work of a day by day basis
To maintain computer held care records in an accurate and timely fashion
Undertake all work in a culturally sensitive manner
Act in accordance with relevant policy and legislation.
Develop and support effective working relationships with inpatient, community and voluntary organisations.
Ensure timely and supported step down from acute inpatient setting and provide preventative intervention to avoid unnecessary acute admission.
Support admissions for service users within the Heeley + PCN to access the onsite hospitality beds to avoid further escalation of crisis.
Supervision
Regularly review own clinical work with supervisor to promote efficacy and contribute to the overall management of the HTT & NMHC
Deliver supervision and facilitate annual PDR with more junior members of staff
Participate in own PDR process, identifying training and development needs, and pursuing relevant actions to maintain and improve level of competence and effective contribution
Education and Training
Act as mentor to learners, keep up to date with relevant course and curriculum developments, and maintain ‘sign off’ status
Participate in training relevant to role, including training needs for the team.
Promote insight and understanding of mental health issues to service users, carers, and other agencies
Contribute to audit, research and evaluation as appropriate
Service Development
Contribute to service development and review of development of the NMHC in line with national development of the pilots.
