Mental Health Nurse (UK VISA SPONSORSHIP)

Employer: Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Position: Senior Community Mental Health Nurse – Memory
Salary: £39,959 – £48,117 per year 
Job Type: Full-time, Fixed term 
Work location: North Moor House, Northallerton 

FULL JOB DESCRIPTION

The ideal candidate will be highly motivated and be able to demonstrate best practice in community mental health service delivery for older people, their families and carers. The ability to work independently, effectively and collaboratively within Multidisciplinary Teams, with external partners, and most importantly – with people, their families and unpaid or paid carers, is an essential core competency.

As Senior Nurse, you will support the team’s triage and duty system as part of a rota. You will undertake a detailed assessment using a holistic memory assessment framework, with the initial collation of all clinically relevant individual service user information (clinical history) and involving families and carers as part of our genuine commitment to co-creation. In this way you will promote positive experience and clinical outcomes from the beginning of the person’s service journey.

Your Responsibilities include:

• We are looking for an experienced Nurse (fixed term/secondment – 12 months) who will thrive amongst the multi-disciplinary team of professionals to assess, formulate and provide feedback to patients within their journey. 

• You will work within a team of Registered Mental Health nurses, Support worker, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, as well as wider partner agencies including primary care services, social care and voluntary sector agencies.

• We offer robust supervision arrangements and a comprehensive induction and workforce development plan with a vast array of personal, professional and academic training opportunities enabling you to expand your skill set and evidence based practices.

• There is a requirement to accurately record and document clinical discussions and assessment details on our electronic patient record and to ensure that all individual service user documentation is up to date and available to aid formulation within the MDT meeting, providing consistent, safe and high quality decision making. The successful candidate will provide MDT formulation outcome feedback to the service user and families and carers.

• You will be required to be; innovative and flexible. 

• We require the post holders to be committed to equal opportunities and non-discriminatory practices and reflect the trust values of Responsibility, Respect and Compassion.

Work Schedule

Full-time fixed-term contract.

You Will Have

• Able to work in accordance with the Staff Compact and Trust Values and Behaviours.

• Compassionate in meeting the needs of vulnerable people and their families and carers.

• Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in distressing and challenging circumstances

• Able to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team

• Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently

• Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development. Able to accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision

• Self-motivated, resourceful and resilient in challenging situations

• Committed to continual quality and service improvement

• Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act).

• Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice

• Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice

• Clinical Governance and its application in practice

• Research and development methodology

• Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment

• Working knowledge of clinical medicines management, including administration of injections

Requirements

• Current professional registration with Nursing & Midwifery Council – RNMH or RNLD

• Recognised Practice Supervisor and/or Practice Assessor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within 6 months

• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.

• Trained in Clinical Supervision and providing clinical supervision OR willingness to work towards within 6 months

• 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework

• Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers.

• Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.

• Supervising or assessing students on practice placement

• Working in a multi-disciplinary team

• Quality improvement activities

Benefits

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

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Application Process

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