Bank - Mental Health Community Nurse

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas. The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.

We are seeking experienced Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurses to join our temporary staffing bank on an as-needed basis, supporting our teams and contributing to the Trust's mission of delivering "the best care by the best people." To be eligible, you must be a Registered Mental Health Nurse with at least two years of post-registration experience. You should possess strong written and verbal communication skills, work effectively as part of a team, and have a solid understanding of mental health issues, including experience in supporting individuals experiencing emotional distress. In this role, you will assess, plan, implement, and evaluate all aspects of patient care. You will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams and external agencies to ensure high-quality care delivery and must demonstrate the ability to engage service users and their families with empathy and compassion. Ability to travel effectively and efficiently throughout all localities and surrounding areas is integral to the post. Applicants must hold a valid UK driving license and have access to a car for work purposes. Reasonable adjustments will be made to accommodate the needs of disabled applicants.

Main duties of the job

• Foster recovery through empowerment of service users and carers by involving the service user and carer in the planning of their care establishing and maintaining consistent supportive relationships, which encourage increased self-determination and responsibility for service users and their care.
• Offer a range of evidence based interventions and risk management approaches enabling the service user and carers to reduce and manage symptoms and high-risk behaviour.
• Be proactive, innovative and creative in delivering care, enabling the facilitation of service user’s recovery.
• Engage service users and carers in relapse prevention and crisis plans, providing intervention that maximizes the service user’s ability to resolve crisis and prevent hospitalization.
• Facilitate early discharge from both inpatient and Home Treatment Team by providing regular, formal reviews.
• Deliver a flexible and responsive service through practice that is dictated by service users/carers needs.
• Work collaboratively and effectively with members of the multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with other agencies.
• Deliver high quality care and provide solutions to service users with severe and enduring mental health problems.
• Provide care within the Recovery Model of practice maintaining service users within their own environment in the community.

We operate a Temporary Staffing service and offer our Bank Staff excellent benefits including:

• Competitive hourly rates and weekly pay;
• Access to paid annual leave and statutory sick pay;
• Access to the NHS pension scheme;
• Paid mandatory training;
• Opportunities for locally agreed training;
• PAMOVA training for Mental Health staff;
• Flexibility of hours/location;
• Priority over agency staff for booking shifts;
• Free uniform;
• Opportunity to apply for permanent posts.

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic. We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. 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.