Band 6 Mental Health Nurse or Allied Health Professional

Job overview

Band 6 Nurse

You will be working within the Urgent and Crisis and Home Treatment area of the Gleadless and Heeley Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre, working shifts of 8am – 8pm across 7 days per week on a rota basis.

You will join an exciting new team, one of the first 6 pilot sites across the UK to launch to the Neighbourhood Mental Health Model of care. The aim is to establish a coherent, functionally integrated team, working with the VCSE, social care and the local community to deliver high quality mental health care for all the people of Gleadless & Heeley aged 18 or over.

The Centre will embrace the 10 key principles highlighted for the NMHCs:

Trusted Relationships

Continuity of Care

Open Access

All Means All

Co- Produced

Citizenship & Belonging

Close to primary care and system partners

Neighbourhood based

Freedom, Autonomy & Choice

Do not harm.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary home treatment team, sharing a base with CMHT, PCMHT, VCSE, peer workers and community groups.

Core responsibilities will include:

• Comprehensive assessment of new referrals in crisis, intervention planning and care plan formulations.
• Care planning for patients who are accessing the on site beds.
• Service coordination duties include, understanding the roles of the team that day, which patients will be seen and identifying any gaps where services could be supported. Attending morning meetings/ referral meetings and Weekley MDT’s
• Taking referrals from other services where the person is identified to be registered with a Heeley PCN GP.
• Carrying out initial HTT visit to set up plan of care and interventions for the team
• Link to other clinical areas such as inpatient and CMHT’s
• Delivering supervision to more junior members of staff
• Contribute to service development

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

General requirements

• Maintain NMC registration and adhere to professional guidelines and code of conduct
• Work within the framework of relevant policy and legislation both local and national

Principal duties

Clinical

• Triage 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 of 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 relevant policy and legislation.
• Develop and support effective working relationships with inpatient, community and voluntary organisations.
• Ensure timely and supported step down from acute inpatient setting and provide preventative intervention to avoid unnecessary acute admission.
• Support admissions for service users within the Heeley + PCN to access the onsite hospitality beds to avoid further escalation of crisis.

Supervision

• Regularly review own clinical work with supervisor to promote efficacy and contribute to the overall management of the HTT & NMHC
• 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 of the NMHC in line with national development of the pilots.

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.