Job summary
- Main area
- nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9 to 5pm)
- Job ref
- 364-A-8204-C
- Employer
- Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Aubyn Centre
- Town
- Colchester
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Assessment & Intervention Nurse
Band 6
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
PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY
The post holder is responsible for the Assessment pathway within Poplar Ward at Rochford Hospital. The post holder will be responsible for caring for young people aged 13-18 requiring a short assessment admission admitted via A&E or community mental health services.
The post holder will also be responsible for supporting the discharge pathway for the young people admitted to the ward to ensure smooth transition back to community services.
The post holder will assist support of people with mental health needs and challenging behaviours, such as depression or psychosis, and working with young people who have likely felt or attempted suicidal. You will be required to provide person centred care and working, whilst supporting qualified staff to ensure the highest standards of care are upheld.
Young people, relatives, carers and other staff will find the post holder flexible, approachable and with a helpful and friendly disposition, upholding the ethos of EPUT of good customer care at all times with an awareness of own attitude at all times.
Main duties of the job
- To undertake clinical mental health assessments and support the management of Children and Young People presenting in crisis.
- Use clinical knowledge and expertise to formulate an assessment of relapse risk of the patient after specialist assessment. Liaise with other agencies caring for patients, including community mental health teams and GPs and use collateral information from relatives, GPs and past clinical reports, where available and appropriate, to provide care plans for all patients.
- Being responsible for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual children and young people.
- Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on the latest empirical evidence and in compliance with local policies and procedures.
- Act as the advocate for patients and relatives.
- To be aware of own personal development needs and participate in regular supervision and appraisal processes.
- Monitor and evaluate the standards of care and take actions to ensure that a high standard of care is maintained. Contribute to Audit to ensure quality standards are met.
- If there is not a patient utilising the Admission pathway you may be required to support the inpatient ward in nursing duties.
- You may be required to provide training and presentations to local providers on CAMHS care and preventing admission.
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
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- To undertake clinical mental health assessments and support the management of Children and Young People presenting in crisis.
- Ensure that care is based on the assessment of care needs and includes a thorough risk assessment and risk management plan.
- Use clinical knowledge and expertise to formulate an assessment of relapse risk of the patient after specialist assessment. Liaise with other agencies caring for patients, including community mental health teams and GPs and use collateral information from relatives, GPs and past clinical reports, where available and appropriate, to provide care plans for all patients.
- Utilise recent research findings in the advancement of best practice and in the delivery of an evidenced based service.
- To provide support and expert advice to colleagues involved in the care of patients with mental health needs and develop systems to ensure that this support is available in a range of ways.
- Promote general health education and specifically mental health education to the client group.
- Identify and intervene proactively in situations that contribute to an unsafe environment for patients, visitors and staff.
- Ensure the effective and efficient use of all resources.
- Ensure that all duties are carried to the highest possible standard, and in accordance with the current quality initiatives within the work area.
- Be aware of the responsibility to maintain a safe environment for patients, staff and visitors.
- Provide evidence based clinical interventions, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
- Being responsible for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual children and young people.
- Ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective and integrated manner.
- Promote a recovery model that empowers patients, carers and relatives to be at the forefront of decision-making and ownership of their packages of care and treatment.
- Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on the latest empirical evidence and in compliance with local policies and procedures.
- Act as the advocate for patients and relatives.
- To be aware of own personal development needs and participate in regular supervision and appraisal processes.
ADDITIONAL DUTIES
- Monitor and evaluate the standards of care and take actions to ensure that a high standard of care is maintained. Contribute to Audit to ensure quality standards are met.
- Identify and be responsive to the diverse cultural, social and spiritual needs of all patients.
- If there is not a patient utilising the Admission pathway you may be required to support the inpatient ward in nursing duties.
- You may be required to provide training and presentations to local providers on CAMHS care and preventing admission.
Person specification
essential
Essential criteria
- registered nurse
- camhs experience
Desirable criteria
- camhs experience
- registered nurse
registered nurse
Essential criteria
- registered nurse
- experience in camhs
Desirable criteria
- registered nurse
- experience in assessment of risk
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- louise summers
- Job title
- service manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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