Community Mental Health Nurse

We currently have two substantive Band 5 Community Mental Health Nurse posts available and are looking for two nurses to join our Team CMHT for Older Persons.
Our team work together to support each other as well as giving you the autonomy to work with individuals, develop therapeutic relationships and support individuals to live as rich and meaningful a life as possible. We are a recovery focused, multi-disciplinary team providing an effective, supportive, and professional service for our Service Users and Carers.
We are looking for people to join us in our award winning outstanding Community Team widely respected and continuing to work towards accreditation and improvements for Older Persons. You will be supported within this role to develop a strong understanding of community Care Coordinator/Assessor role and join our dedicated multidisciplinary team working closely with a range of partners to provide appropriate community interventions for those individuals referred to our service.
Our aim is to continually improve service delivery, service user / carer experience, and work towards positive outcomes.
You will enjoy plenty of opportunities for joint working, training, and a sound supervision structure., You'll be working alongside a MDT and part of your role will be to undertake and support clinicians with assessments, undertake the role of the duty worker as part of our team's rota and monitor and manage medication administration. You'll regularly be working with external agencies as part of a service users care, so being able to work well in a team and having excellent communication skills is vital. You can expect a thorough induction and training / preceptorship period, as well as opportunities for ongoing development.
You can expect a manageable case load and a supportive management team to ensure you're able to work independently but support is never far away if needed.
The ideal candidate should have experience in working in a mental health environment and ideally experience in working in community teams.
The typical job roles and responsibilities will include:
+ Undertaking urgent/routine assessments
+ Administering and monitoring medication such as depots
+ Attending regular MDT meetings and liaising with colleagues from other services (both internally and externally such as Social Care, Wards, The Intensive Older Persons Team, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team and third sector organisations)
+ Supporting a caseload via face to face and telephone contacts
+ Involving service users, families, and carers in care planning and decision making
+ Working alongside Lead Care Professionals and supporting those currently under open to our services, EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.
DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures - these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.
Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.
The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.
This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we'd love you to join us!

Benefits included with this role are:-
+ NHS pension
+ A comprehensive in house & external training programmes
+ Career progression
+ Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
+ Staff physio service
+ NHS discounts and many more.
+ Salary Sacrifice Bike and Car Scheme