Community Practitioner - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Mental Health Community Nurse within the Behaviour Support Service (BSS) for Older Person's Community Central, at the Campus for Ageing and Vitality (CAV).

The service is well established since 2008 and works into all the care homes in Newcastle and part of the borough of North Tyneside.


The BSS is looking to recruit a dynamic and motivated individual who has a specialist interest in working with the mental health care of older adults.

Appropriate skills and knowledge are required to work with this client group, to meet their needs arising from organic or functional illness, and to help the teams who support them in a care environment.

You will need knowledge or experience of working in Older People's services and excellent communication skills to work with multiple teams and liaise with different agencies.


The BSS supports older people living in a care environment by promoting least restrictive practice (reducing use of restrictive interventions) with a non-pharmacological focus and developing psycho-social interventions.

You will use the Newcastle Model of unmet needs as part of a behavioural assessment and will devise and evaluate intervention support plans with care home staff.

You will also have the opportunity to provide teaching and training to care home staff.


The team has been hugely successful in preventing and reducing hospital admissions for its client group in the Newcastle area since its inception.

We are looking for somebody who is excited to advance in their current role or to develop a new specialty.

The BSS has a fantastic staff retention rate and can meet your individual training and development needs within role including research opportunities.


You will join the team at an exciting time where you will help support service development and new ways of working.

This includes the ongoing development and embedding of a pathway to support clients with a functional illness.


We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future.

In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.


The BSS has strong relationships with co-located teams at CAV including Community Treatment Team (CTT); Memory Assessment and Management Service (MAMS); Psychology; Psychiatry and Castleside Day Hospital (CDH).

You will attend MDT meetings and there is the opportunity for joint working between services. The BSS team also benefits from the opportunity for flexible and remote working.

You will be a confident, experienced clinician with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who is focused and well organized.

The demand of the job also requires the ability to be autonomous, flexible and responsive with a positive attitude to teamwork.

You must have a strong commitment to the delivery of high quality, safe, patient care and be a good role model in reflecting the Trusts core Values.


  • To undertake specific assessment of individual service users and to contribute to the formulation and implementation of a multidisciplinary care plan.
  • To provide therapeutic and educational guidance to enable care providers to provide appropriate high quality care for older people displaying challenging behaviours.
  • To provide the expected clinical duties in keeping with the grade.
  • To care coordinate individual clients within an appropriate framework. Take part in an ongoing team approach to all service users of Team.
  • To maintain and update risk assessments in conjunction with user presentation and evidence based practice.
  • To ensure that clients are consulted about their care and are involved in the decisionmaking process regarding development of the service.
  • To be jointly responsible for setting standards of care and clinical practice within a multidisciplinary environment.
  • To ensure that any client care is carried out effectively, liaising with relatives, statutory and nonstatutory bodies as appropriate in line with service policy.
  • To maintain and keep accurate records and clinical notes including electronic information systems.
  • To fulfil all statutory requirements, where appropriate, set out for both the health trust and local authority.
Please find attached job description for full details.


Advertising date: 4thJuly 2023


Closing date: 18thJuly 2023
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