South AMHT Community Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

Are you a qualified Psychiatric Nurse  passionate about mental health and supporting people with severe mental illness towards their recovery in their community?

The Wallingford, Henley and Thame AMHT have a rare opportunity for you to join our team on a full time basis.

The team is a busy and dynamic team that holds patient centred-care at the core of what we do. We are currently adapting our service to support co-produced care plans and using Patient Recorded Outcome Measures (PROMs) to identify and guide patient care.

The South AMHT consists of four satellite bases in Wallingford, Abingdon, Didcot and Wantage and consists of the multi-disciplinary team who work alongside Keystone Hubs in primary care and also with embedded third sector services in each locality.

As a team we are aiming to provide an excellent service for our local community, and are seeking candidates who share our passion.

You will be supported by an experienced leadership team from across the professions who hold your development as central. We offer regular supervision and you will be encouraged and supported to undertake any training relevant to your professional development.

The role will require travel so it is essential that the candidate has a valid UK driving licence and access to a car that can be used for work purposes.

Main duties of the job

The role will involve being the allocated Key Worker (formerly known as Care Coordinator) for a caseload of patients with severe and enduring mental illness.  In these instances, you will be:

• Playing an integral role as part of an multi-disciplinary team in that person's recovery, which would include the assessment, collaborative care planning and review of the person's needs.
• Assessing and care planning risk, including understanding and applying safeguarding processes.
• Undertaking assessment of patients newly referred to the team, offering biopsychosocial assessments and providing brief intervention as appropriate.
• Undertake the duty role, which involves the triage of new referrals with the view to signpost people to appropriate services or offer assessments with the team in appropriate timeframes.

You will need to be able to work autonomously, however there will be ongoing support from peers and the leadership team in the form of both informal and formal clinical and management supervision.

The team continues to operate seven days a week, with hours ranging from 07:00-21:00, with core duties are Monday-Friday 09:00-17:00. We are anticipating the implementation of the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team, which will mean that we will then operate Monday - Friday (exclusive of Bank Holidays) 09:00-17:00. This may go live before the successful candidate joins, however we wish to note there may be a possibility of weekend working.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.