ICT Mental Health Nurse

This is a unique position for someone who enjoys teamwork, challenges and variety in their day to day work. You will be working collaboratively with other health colleagues with service users who have complex frailty needs that are impacting on their mental wellbeing. This position is based in the Hertfordshire area, supporting our service users with mental health and wellbeing. In their own home, this will include nursing and residential homes., You will be expected to:

• Visit service users who are identified under the frailty pathway, in their place of residence, to complete a holistic assessment of their physical and mental health needs.
• Required to take responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and the setting of standards of care and management of a defined caseload, including liaison with other agencies and, where appropriate, the supervision, development and teaching of staff and/or students.
• Work in partnership with other healthcare professionals and trusts. Integrated Care Teams aim to make healthcare more preventative, this service supports service users with multiple long term or complex conditions to remain at home rather than going into hospital or residential care. Referrals are accepted from various sources such as primary care, ambulance service, A&E and secondary care.
• Hold a case load of service users, ensuring the care plan is met at all times.
• Be part of an wider supportive and holistic multidisciplinary team of mental health nurses, mental health OT's and Psychology team., Be responsible for the full assessment of care needs and risk assessment of service users presenting with a wide variety of clinical conditions. Following this the post holder will be responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of programs of care, without direct supervision (though clinical supervision is implemented as per policy to support you).
• To be named primary worker and act accordingly when applying care.
• To manage oneself in a professional manner, responding to requests, enquiries etc in a timely fashion.
• To respond to any crisis that a service user may advise of, with the aim of promoting independent living in the community
• Work with the philosophy to support service users to remain in their own home.
• Administer and/ or supervise medications as required. To have a sound knowledge of medications and their desired and undesired effects,
• Be required to provide education, advise and guidance to service users and their careers and families.
• Provide a range of clinical interventions and treatments appropriate to the individuals needs.
• Participate fully in providing quality care in line with local and national guidelines.
• Act as a role model in providing a service for people with mental health problems.
• Participate in audit/research projects associated with the service.
• Be required to challenge practice that compromises or challenges high quality care to older people.
• To advise Team Manager of any resource short falls.
• To partake in continuing professional development that will also benefit the development and quality of the service.
• Remain updated with local and national guidelines and policies.
• Partake in home visits with other professionals such as Social Workers, Community Matrons, Occupational Therapists etc.
  
  Degree, diploma or equivalent in registration Nursing (Mental Health Nursing)
• Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Mentorship Preparation Course.
• Two years post registration experience, with at least one year post registration experience in Older Adult Mental and or Frailty health care
Desirable criteria
• Pre or Post registration training/ short courses in mental health
• Community and Inpatient nursing experience
• AMHP/NMP qualification
• Physical healthcare training
• Experience of working with clients with Delirium
• Tier 2 Dementia training
• Experience of working in primary care, Knowledge of legislation related to mental health (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Care Act, Care Programme Approach etc)
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Ability to manage distressing and challenging situations
Desirable criteria
• Supervision skills
• Leadership skills, Excellent communication skills, verbally and in writing
• Ability to feedback and discuss cases within the multi disciplinary team
• Excellent report writing skills
• Excellent documentation of duties performed
• Confidence to work autonomously in the community
ANALYTICAL SKILLSEssential criteria
• Good range of problem solving skills
• Good range of information gathering skills
• Ability to assess and manage risks
• Fine attention to detail
• Experience in working with service users with personality disorder
• Maintaining a positive non- judgemental attitude and therapeutic optimism towards working with people with Personality disorder, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services. The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout: Our Trust values are: Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it! Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional