Community Mental Health Nurse Band 5 Secondment/Fixed Term - Lowestoft, United Kingdom - Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Description

Job summary

Our Waveney Adult Community Mental Health Team are seeking a dedicated Mental Health Nurse to join their team on a 6 month Secondment or Fixed Term contract.

Our collaborative team are based at Victoria House, Lowestoft, but travel across all of Waveney to visit service users. You'll be working alongside a close knit multi-disciplinary team of Assistant Practitioners, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Peer Support Workers, Psychologists, Psychological Therapists, Psychiatrists and Care Support Workers.

We provide a community-based service to Lowestoft and rural Waveney market towns and villages; we have excellent working relationships with external agencies and partners who are all working together to develop recovery-based care plans.

We are a developing team and are looking for individuals with experience working in the community and with a knowledge/understanding of assessment, the referral process, case handling and working collaboratively with the wider MDT.

We're passionate about enabling our staff to develop by providing a supportive environment & would welcome any applicants who are looking to challenge themselves in a new role.

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidate will be a qualified professional Nurse with experience of working in with and supporting working age adults with mental health problems following the Care Programme Approach.

We'd like you to be able to demonstrate a sound understanding of your role as a Care Coordinator and have an understanding of the triage and assessment process, as we accept a number of referrals from GP surgeries and other services.

You'll need to demonstrate robust and sound assessment skills; our secondary mental health service cares for individuals with severe and enduring mental health problems such as bipolar, trauma, personality disorder and schizophrenia.

We're always developing new ways of supporting our service users; we boast a thriving Recovery College and Therapeutic Day service, plus access to respite and admission prevention support within a supported housing provider.

When you join us, you can expect to enjoy plenty of opportunities for joint working, case formulation, training and a sound supervision structure. Team members are regularly involved in whole service delivery development, including Day service, Psychological Therapies and joint working with Primary Care.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job responsibilities

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Professional Qualification

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Experience

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Knowledge

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