Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub Nurse Practitioner

We are looking for a community mental health nurse practitioner with exceptional organisational and communication skills. Experience and/or interest in facilitating groups/workshops is preferred.

We are looking for a motivated, skilled, and experienced Community Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to join our Bexley Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub.

The Community Mental Health Transformation Programme has led to the development of the Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub in Bexley. This will be delivered by a combination of clinical staff from Oxleas, Bexley Mind, Primary Care, Bexley LA, voluntary, third party, and local partners. This will enable people to receive support with managing their mental health alongside help with issues including employment, relationships, housing, finances, and engaging in the local community and accessing community assets in Bexley. The Hub receives referrals from various sources, principally primary care sources including GPs and the London Borough of Bexley. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved with the development of the service and requires a commitment to integrated working.

The post holder will be responsible for undertaking comprehensive telephone and face-to-face assessments of referred patients to identify their needs. They will hold a caseload for a short brief-intervention period.

The post holders will be working in a supportive and diverse team, where there are opportunities for personal development.

The post holder will be a mental health professional registered with NMC with significant post-qualification experience, working either in a single point of access, primary care, or community setting.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector through our new provider collaboratives.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London, we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

The Community Mental Health Nurse Practitioner will act as an effective member of the integrated Bexley Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub, with responsibility for face-to-face and telephone assessments of incoming referrals from various sources within the borough of Bexley, principally referrals from GP practices and social services teams.

To enable Bexleycare to deliver a consistent and responsive Community Mental Health Wellbeing Hub in conjunction with the ethos of the NHS Long Term Plan Community Mental Health Transformation Programme. To develop, appraise, and improve the community mental health hub, working closely with all stakeholders from Bexleycare and other stakeholders to provide a robust service to people who are experiencing psychiatric and/or psychosocial mental health problems in Bexley.

The post holder will deliver and/or advise on the delivery of high-quality safe nursing care, ensuring consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence which comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of professional conduct. Bexley Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub is a primary care level service in the Borough of Bexley. The post sits within a multi-disciplinary framework and provides assessments (telephone, virtual, and face-to-face) and brief interventions. The team liaises and receives referrals from several sources including GPs, Bexley Local Authority, and MIND.

As a Community Mental Health Hub Nurse, you will promote and develop clinical leadership and clinical practice and be a positive role model to junior members of the team through the practice of evidence-based care. You will be expected to support professional development through clinical appraisal and supervision and contribute to the ongoing educational programme for staff, fostering a positive learning environment. As a senior nurse working within the Hub, you are required to encourage and foster collaborative and cross-organisational working.

This job description outlines the key tasks and responsibilities expected of a Band 6 Nurse. The post holder will be required to undertake additional duties appropriate to the clinical area/speciality in which they work.

• Two years post qualifying experience
• Experience in working with older adults
• Experience in running groups or workshops

• Experience in working with complex mental health presentations

• Presenting cases to the MDT and other primary statutory and voluntary organisations

• Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding adults and children

• Minimal experience but able to learn

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Bexley Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub, Bexleyheath / Erith Centre

Devonshire Road and Erith Centre

Bexleyheath and Erith

DA6 8DS

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