Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health (Older Adults)
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9-5 Monday- Friday occasional evenings and weekends.)
- Job ref
- 110-NMR171-0424
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 71 Quarella Road
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £35,922 - £43,257 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Nurse in Older Persons Mental Health
Band 6
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced mental health nurse to join our busy Older Person's Community Mental Health Team, based in Quarella Road Bridgend.
You will be expected to work as part of a multi disciplinary team/multi agency team in conjunction with Bridgend County Borough Council. You may have to undertake the role of care coordinator, providing quality mental health services under the framework of the Mental Health Measures (2010) Wales. In addition to this you will undertake CHC reviews and nursing assessments to inform categories of care. As a registered nurse you will be involved in the day to day running of the team including mentoring of students and the supervision of junior staff. You will work autonomously and also under the supervision of a band 7 registered nurse/team manager and in conjunction with other nurses, unregistered health care support workers and colleagues from local authority, deliver a range of a supportive services for those individuals under the care of the Community and part 1 and 2 of the Mental Health Measure.
The team currently covers the hours of 9-5, 5 days per week.
The Team also covers on a rotation basis our Out of hours 5-8 pm Mon -Friday and Saturday and Sunday 9-5pm.
If you have the passion and ambition to join this busy, dynamic, multi agency service then we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
There is one 37.5 hours permanent position available.
- To be responsible for management of a caseload with accountability and responsibility for patient centred assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care in conjunction with the carer, multidisciplinary team and other agencies within the community.
- Undertaking individual care and treatment planning working alongside other health professionals as the allocated care Co-ordinator.
- Managing risk utilising WARRN
- To assist the Team Leader in managing a team of community nurses, co-coordinating and deploying resources within varied environments.
- To assist the Team Leader in the delivery of service objectives, performance management and service targets is an integral part of the role, as well as providing expert knowledge and advice to a wide range of service providers and users of the service, as well as management of their own caseload
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
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Our values and behaviours are fundamental to the way we do things at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board. They are everything we stand for and aspire to. That includes the way we behave, how we perform our roles and the way we recruit new talent. We look forward to exploring how your values align with ours. This is how we work: We listen, learn and improve We treat everyone with respect |
We all work together as one team
We are a proud employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only the lifeblood of our organisation but also of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience in Older Persons Mental Health setting
- Experience in Community Nursing
- Experience in Dementia care
Desirable criteria
- Experience of multi agency working
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of post registration education/CPD
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good assessment and formulation skills
- Demonstrated excellent communication skills
- Ability to time manage and organise self
Desirable criteria
- Ability to work collaboratively with a mutli-agency network
- Ability to work flexibly, within a developing service
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate sound clinical knowledge of older persons care/dementia care
- Demonstrates knowledge relating to legal frameworks (ie. MHA, MCH, DOLS, CTP, CHC)
- Demonstrates knowledge in relation to safeguarding processes
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of Dementia Care Pathway of Standards
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of The All Wales Dementia Care of Standards
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Flexible approach to work and ability to work under pressure
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to work as part of a team
Desirable criteria
- Welsh speaker
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Corrinna Cullen
- Job title
- Memory Service Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 763097
- Additional information
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