Community Mental Health Nurse

There is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and dynamic registered nurse to join our busy Early Intervention Team (EIT) on a 12 month fixed term contract. The EIT supports people across North Staffordshire and Stoke-On-Trent who are experiencing a first episode of psychosis. Working flexibly with them and their families using evidence-based interventions in order to maximise recovery and social capital. Successful candidates will have a good understanding of psychosis and engagement skills. The candidate will demonstrate excellent communication skills to engage service users and their families in the EI pathway. The EI service works with people for a period of up to 3 years, providing high quality care planning, risk management and monitoring in order to ensure best outcomes. Psychosis is treatable and recovery is expected.

Main duties of the job:

• To have the responsibility for the delivery of an Early Intervention in Psychosis Service to specific individuals on the ARMS Pathway.
• Coordinating clinical activity, liaison with the rest of the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service and other appropriate teams, services and agencies.
• Immediate problem solving and decision making and contributing to long term planning for future developments both within the immediate clinical area and within the service area.
• To ensure that the values and principles of the organisation and of the service area are translated into the philosophy and operational policy of the clinical team and that these are evident in everyday practice.

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care. We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working. We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world’s first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045. As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development, setting and maintaining of standards.
• To ensure that new policy legislation, recommendations and guidelines are effectively communicated, understood and integrated into daily practice.
• Maintain working practices that promote interagency and multidisciplinary working and ensure effective and accurate communication with particular emphasis upon inpatient facilities and the interface between inpatient and community care.
• Attend appropriate meetings/forums to ensure that the wider clinical team (multi-disciplinary team and locality team) are fully engaged in both clinical and developmental aspects of the area.
• Take responsibility for maintaining professional registration and personal and professional development in accordance with NMC guidance, attending statutory and mandatory training and other pertinent training as agreed with the Team Leader through the personal review process.

Person specification:

• Evidence of professional updating and development in the delivery services to people with mental illness.
• Experience of working therapeutically in community settings.
• Experience of working with a range of statutory, non-statutory agencies.
• Knowledge of various approaches to mental health assessment.
• Demonstrate values that are complimentary to organisational/service values.

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.