Intensive Outreach Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Mental Health Nurse to join the Intensive Outreach Team.

We welcome applications from enthusiastic, self motivated, and recovery focused practitioners who value working in a supportive team environment. Experience in psychosocial interventions, family work and/or substance misuse would be advantageous.

You will be working offering recovery focused, intensive support to a caseload of people with complex mental health difficulties, who experience psychosis and who struggle to maintain engagement with community services, and their families, using a whole team approach.

The role will involve working with the CMHT's and EIT across north Staffordshire coordinating the care of individuals in line with changes in the national direction of the Care Plan Approach offering evidence based interventions to address core needs as well as manage risk in a community setting.

Close working relationships with inpatient, recovery and rehabilitation, other statutory and third sector agencies will be necessary to support people with multiple needs and who often have chaotic and disparate engagement with services. We strive to think creatively to ensure the highest quality care and are committed to continuous improvement ad adapting the service to the needs of the population. Your input to the development of the service is a valued part of the role., To work as an integral part of a multi-professional team working with individuals with severe and enduring mental health problems who have problems in engaging and maintaining lasting and meaningful contact with mental health services. The nature of the client group and the philosophy of the team will require the post holder to work flexible hours.

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of recovery based care programmes and the setting of standards of care for this complex group.

To undertake an assertive outreach approach to engage the identified individuals and to provide support and interventions that aim to meet their needs.

The post holder will deputise for the Caseload Manager when required.

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 onensuring 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 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). 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. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme".

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.