Job summary
- Main area
- Older Adult Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 1 year
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday 9-5)
- Job ref
- 110-NMR199-0524
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ysbyty George Thomas/Maritime Resource Centre
- Town
- Treorchy
- Salary
- £35,922 - £43,257 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
CPN Nurse Assessor, Older Persons Community Mental Health Teams
Band 6
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
- Hold a clinical caseload, providing comprehensive nursing assessments to determine the appropriate category of care required for a care home placement, and to support the Continuing Health Care and NHS Funded Care process.
- Foster robust, open and positive working relationships with all partners, in particular, Local Authority and other mental health services and the 3rd sector, ensuring that all partners are treated with dignity and respect.
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, acting as a resource to provide nursing advice in relation to appropriate placement and management.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide comprehensive nursing assessments to determine the appropriate category of care required for a care home placement and to support the Continuing Health Care and NHS Funded Nursing Care process.
The post holder will develop and maintain a collaborative approach to the fair application of both NHS Funded Nursing Care and Continuing Health Care criteria.
The post holder will encourage joint working and actively work towards improving outcomes for patients via the process and provide accurate advice and information to the multi-disciplinary team and families regarding the outcome of the nursing assessment process.
The post holder will frequently work as a Lone Worker.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job Description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click "Apply now" to view in Trac.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a patient centred environment.
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience of drafting reports and correspondence.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a multi-agency community mental health setting.
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to understand and manage complex issues and environments.
- Partnership and multi-disciplinary working.
Desirable criteria
- Presenting information to other professional groups.
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Post Registration qualification to postgraduate Diploma level, or possess skills, knowledge, training and experience to equivalency.
- Excellent clinical knowledge of specialist area.
- Good knowledge of NHS Funded Nursing Care and Continuing Health Care
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Escalating Concerns Policy
Other
Essential criteria
- The role is community based, therefore the ability to travel throughout the UHB locality in a timely manner is essential to the role.
- Can work effectively with people with diverse skills, abilities and experience.
- Able to prioritise work and work to multiple deadlines.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Paula Jones
- Job title
- CPN Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443033
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