The closing date is 31st Aug 2026
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Job summary
As an RMN in our team you will deliverhigh quality holistic care for people with severe and enduring mental illness. You will be expected to work collaboratively with other clinicians and GPs to contribute to annual health reviews risk assessments and risk management and achieve key performance indicator. This opportunity also gives you the chance to make a real difference to individuals lives through high quality compassionate and integrated care.
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Main duties, tasks & skills required
Clinical Your primary caseload will include patients registered with GPs within the Andover CMHT catchment area.This offers a fantastic opportunity to develop your knowledge and build strong working relationships with local Primary Care Networks.To work in line with all relevant policies and procedures. This is including care planning risk and safeguarding. Helping with Depot and Clozapine clinics. Holding a small caseload of patients. Supporting housebound patients in the community. To alert the Team Leader or Manager to any concerns in a timely manner
Communication To develop a professional relationship with service users based on principles of recovery, such as hope, opportunity and choice. To record agreed outcome measures. To accurately record all contacts with service users in the Rio electronic record in line with Hampshire & the Isle of Wight Healthcare FT record keeping policy. To ensure effective communication with service users their relatives and carers. To ensure that all communication takes place in a manner that is consistent with legislation as well as policies and procedures. To ensure that consent to intervention or assessment is sought in a manner that is meaningful to the service user and complies with legislation. To respond to questions or concerns from service users and carers in a timely and professional manner. To be aware of professional boundaries in keeping with Trust policy.
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About us
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
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Job description
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.
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Person specification
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Qualifications
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Essential
Registered Nurse. Social Worker.Mental Health Practitioner or OT with Computer skills
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Experience
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Essential
Commitment to lifelong learning
Ability to communicate effectively with people who have difficulty understanding
Good facilitation skills
Evidence of effective interpersonal skills
Ability to organise self and others to achieve tasks
Able to co facilitate group work
Working knowledge of the application of the appropriate professional Code of Conduct
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Desirable
Knowledge of risk assessments and outcome measures
Facilitating group and project work
Able to carry out supervision of staff
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Additional Criteria
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Essential
Patients & People First
Providing compassionate and safe care
Listening to each other
Doing the right thing
Appreciating each other
Delivering quality
Partnership
Communicating clearly
Supporting each other
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
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UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
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For help with your application, contact:
Mandy James
[email protected]
02382313137
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Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
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Band
Band 6
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Salary
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£39959.00 to £48117.00 Yearly
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Contract
Permanent
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Working pattern
Full-Time
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Reference number
348-MNH-12333
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Job locations
Andover Health Hub
The Chantry Centre, Chantry Street
Andover
Hampshire
SP10 1RL
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Attachments
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Job Description
Band 6 Mental Health Nurse.docx – 173KB Opens in a new window
Converted File Band 6 Mental Health Nurse.docx.pdf – 169KB Opens in a new window
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Additional document 1
EmployeeBenefits_hiowh_v1-compressed_3.pdf – 1001KB Opens in a new window
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