community mental health nurse

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

The Home Treatment Team (HTT) provides a 7 day a week service, between the hours of 8am and 10pm, whose key responsibilities are around the assessing and delivery of care for people who are in crisis with their mental health. The team is multi-disciplinary and has a strong ethos of team working and team support, in order to deliver high quality care. The post holder will work on a shift basis of 4 days per week over a 7 day period. The HTT works closely within the crisis network in ensuring that good liaison and joint working with other crisis provision teams are maximized.

Main duties of the job

The band 6 nurse will work within the Home Treatment Team. The post is to provide clinical care to Service Users who are in Crisis. The HTT is multidisciplinary and will involve working alongside other clinical professionals as well as the Crisis Network and other Community Mental Health Teams. As a band 6 the role will involve supervision of junior staff and participating in team development.

You will be involved in the assessment of Service Users in Crisis, leading on crisis assessments and decision making with onward referring to appropriate teams.

Planning interventions, delivering a variety of Acute Crisis interventions, whilst reviewing care and planning for discharge.

Working as shift coordinator.

Working within the MDT to maintain care and standards.

Supporting the ongoing development of the team with all team members.

Supervision of junior staff.

About us

We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.

What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.

It's important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of.

If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.

We are all very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us.

Job responsibilities

Clinical

• Triage and determine urgency of new referrals to the service.
• Carry out comprehensive assessments of an individual's health and social care needs in a variety of settings and agree the most appropriate course of action.
• To assess, evaluate and manage clinical risk.
• To formulate a plan of care based on identified need.
• Deliver evidence based crisis interventions as appropriate.
• Review effectiveness of care plan at regular intervals.
• To work collaboratively with service users, carers and partner agencies.
• To coordinate the clinic work on a day by day basis.
• To maintain computer held care records in an accurate and timely fashion.
• Undertake all work in a culturally sensitive manner.
• Act in accordance with the Care Programme Approach, Care Management System, Acute and Schedule Care Pathways as appropriate.
• Develop effective working relationships with inpatient, community and voluntary organisations.

Supervision

• Regularly review own clinical work with supervisor to promote efficacy and contribute to the overall management of the HTT.
• Deliver supervision and facilitate annual PDR with more junior members of staff.
• Participate in own PDR process, identifying training and development needs, and pursuing relevant actions to maintain and improve level of competence and effective contribution.

Education and Training

• Act as mentor to learners, keep up to date with relevant course and curriculum developments, and maintain sign off status.
• Participate in training relevant to role, including training needs for the team.
• Promote insight and understanding of mental health issues to service users, carers, and other agencies.
• Contribute to audit, research and evaluation as appropriate.

Service Development

• Contribute to service development and review of development within the team.

This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities and in discussion with the manager the postholder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the Banding of the post. The job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the postholder.

The post holder should be comfortable in the use of computer technology, have basic keyboard skills and have the ability to use email.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse - Mental Health.
• Experience of working as a Band 5 Nurse in a MDT setting.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Knowledge & Skills

• Working knowledge and understanding of Care Programme Approach & Care Management.
• Knowledge and understanding of appropriate therapeutic approaches.
• Knowledge and understanding of PDR and supervision processes as a supervisee.
• Demonstrable risk assessment and risk management skills.
• Demonstrable caseload and time management skills.
• Ability to work autonomously as well as a co-operative and effective member of the multi-disciplinary team with an ability to communicate at all levels.
• Ability to assess (under supervision), plan and evaluate care.

Experience

• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working.
• Experience of working in a community setting.
• Experience of mentoring others.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.