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Main area
Community Mental health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
455-NLFT-0071
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Victoria Unit, St. Ann's Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£42,939 - £50,697 pa
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/06/2025 23:59
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Community Mental Health Nurse / Key Worker - Older People

NHS AfC: Band 6

Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we: 

  • Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
  • Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
  • Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
  • Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
  • Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
  • Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer.  We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is:  https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ 

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a community mental health nurse to join our Haringey Older People Services team based in the Victoria Unit at St. Ann's Hospital. We cover the London borough of Haringey.

As a multi-disciplinary team we provide needs-led holistic assessment and treatment pathways for older adults, and people with mental health and frailty needs. Our service provides seamless pathways between primary care and secondary care services for people with functional mental illness, and dementia.

We are looking for a dynamic nurse who is passionate about the care of our older adult service users. We consider transferable skills from other areas of mental health services as valuable and a positive contribution to a well-rounded team.

As a team, we can offer multi-disciplinary support from Clinical Psychologists, Consultant Psychiatrists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, as well as Mental Health Nurses. We also provide regular CPD sessions, reflective practice, staff support sessions, individual and group supervisions, and training opportunities.

 

Main duties of the job

The post holder to demonstrate expert practise in the care of clients with mental health needs and maintain clinical expertise. taking responsibility for initiating risk assessment, mental capacity, best interest assessments, crisis planning, dialog plus and core assessment, ensuring the care and interventions provided within the older people service are evidence based and in accordance with NICE guidance.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1.     We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2.       With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3.       We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4.       We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

 

Why NLFT?

·       We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.

·       We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

·       NHS Discounts, generous annual leave, and NHS pension scheme

·       Excellent internal staff network

 

The postholder will be aligned with our Values:

·       We Are Kind

·       We Are Respectful

·       We Work Together

·       We Keep Things Simple

·       We Empower

·       We Are Proudly Diverse

 

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Carry overall responsibility for the management of a caseload in the role of Key worker /care manager, as defined by the Dialog+ approach and other government and local directives. Ensure that the service of the CMHT i.e. nursing, social care, occupational therapy and psychology is carried out effectively within a multidisciplinary framework and in collaboration with other agencies. Maintain contact with service users on their caseload during periods of admission, including attendance at MDT meetings. To take lead in the planning and implementation of the client’s re-integration back into the community. 
 
2. Provide service users and their carers with a service that is culturally sensitive and gives due consideration to any special needs
 
3. Provide therapeutic interventions by means of assessment and ongoing treatment in various settings. Design care programmes in line with risk assessment and psychosocial needs. In consultation with MDT colleagues discharge service users in line with Trust and CMHT policies and procedures
 
4. Participate in the Duty System as the Duty Officer or ‘Backup’ providing a Direct Access mental health service to the community. Be responsible for the screening of all new referrals, arrange assessments, provide advice and refer to other agencies as appropriate.
 
5 Input and maintain clear, comprehensive and contemporaneous written records on all service users in accordance with NMC standards and Trust policies, utilising I.T. skills and knowledge to access and input all information and data to the RIO case management electronic / integrated notes and Framework I (social services computer system) as required.
 
6. Screen referrals received via intake (single point of access) in consultation with the designated duty manager. Bringing circumstances of an ‘urgent’ nature to the immediate attention of the senior practitioner.
 
7. Provide formal, ongoing clinical supervision and caseload management supervision to less experienced members of the CMHT and students on placement who are allocated cases. This includes carrying overall responsibility for junior practitioners’ caseloads
 
8. Undertake involvement of formal and informal training and team development for qualified and unqualified staff, including students 
 
9. Initiate and/or collaborate in clinical developments based on appropriate research evidence. Set, monitor and ensure maintenance of standards of mental health as appropriate to the post holder’s professional qualification.
 
10. Promote health and provide highly specialist advice / education regarding Mental Health to professionals, service users, their carers, other agencies and members of the community in general.
 
11. Receive regular, ongoing clinical and case management supervision; attend staff development and training as required.  The post holder will be subject to periodic appraisal for their work performance (Individual Performance Appraisal and Review) and objectives will be set on an annual basis between the post holder and their supervisor / manager
 
12. To prepare and provide all necessary social circumstances report and mental health tribunal report as required.
 
13. To prepare and provide evidence-based community Care, treatment and interventions. To negotiate buying in Services as required to meet client’s needs. E.g. Direct payments, Home Care, Housing.)
 
14. To provide a direct link / liaison to GP practices as a mental health specialist advisor for individual service users.
 
15. To assist clients with Welfare Rights / Benefits / Freedom Pass.
 
16. Promote Health and Safety advice at work and in the Community.
 
17. To be highly skilled in working with potential aggressive behaviour of clients, relatives and carers in the community.
 
18. To have specialist skills and knowledge required to work independently in highly unpleasant/potentially hazardous conditions and unpredictable environments.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria
  • • 1st Level Registration RMN/Registered Nurse (Mental Health) • Evidence of further post-registration education and training • ENB 998 or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification
Desirable criteria
  • • Further training within the specialist area of Mental Health for the Older Person.

Previous Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Minimum of 3 years post registration experience, one of which will be as a practitioner at band 5, working with people with severe and enduring mental health problems

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • • Ability to work under pressure in acute situations with minimal supervision • Communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary team • Ability to undertake evidence-based interventions with people suffering from a range of mental health problems • Ability to undertake comprehensive risk assessment and implement risk management plans • The ability to implement clinical and line management supervision • Excellent communication and leadership skills • Understanding of current issues informing the Health Agenda • Understanding of statutory policy relating to mental health care delivery incl. Care Programme Approach, National Service Framework for Mental Health and the Mental Health Act

Special Requirements

Essential criteria
  • • Car driver/owner • Use of public transport (TfL) • Full driving licence • Ability to work flexibly, including participation in the daily Sector Duty System

Equal Opportunities

Essential criteria
  • • Understanding of user empowerment • Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice • Understanding of gender issues in mental health care delivery
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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Imran Khan
Job title
OPCMHT Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0208 702 6300

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