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Job summary

Main area
Mental health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
346-DDA-115-24
Employer
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Vermont House
Town
Washington
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/07/2024 23:59
Interview date
23/07/2024

Employer heading

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust logo

Senior Community Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care —our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We’re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won’t rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Job overview

OP Courage North are excited to be able to advertise a full time position for a Senior Community Nurse.

Op Courage North is the Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service.  The service is a provider collaborative delivering specialist mental health services to Veterans, reservists, and their families across the North of England. 

The collaborative is made up of Cumbria, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust as the lead provider, working with NHS partners Trust and Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Pennine Care NHS Foundation and Charitable organisation partners Combat Stress and Walking with The Wounded. 

There are 5 clinical teams embedded within NHS partner organisations across the North of England, working to one operational model as one service, reporting to a Clinical Lead and Operational Lead who are overseen by a Partnership Board to ensure effective delivery of the service.

 

 

Main duties of the job

This is an opportunity to be a part of a very supportive team, where your contribution and development are highly valued. Successful applicants will work exclusively with individuals who have served with the UK Armed Forces, their families, and non-mobilised reservists. 

You will be able to work autonomously and be willing and able to develop your skills and knowledge for this specialist role. You will be involved in completing holistic assessments and delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions to people on our caseload. There is a clear flexible framework in relation to specific slots in your working week in order to complete assessment, triage, and clinical intervention.  

The service is committed to developing the skills of practitioners, so there will be ongoing opportunities to work within either assessment or care coordination roles, whilst also having the opportunity to gain further therapeutic skills through training.

Working for our organisation

Op COURAGE is an NHS mental health specialist service designed to help serving personnel due to leave the military, reservists, armed forces veterans and their families.  It would therefore be beneficial if the applicant were to have some experience with the armed forces.

This post is a joint partnership with Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust and CNTW, the successful candidate will be based at Vermont House in Washington and be clinically managed via CNTW. 

                         

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Op COURAGE: The Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service provides specialist care and support for those due to leave the armed forces, reservists and those who’ve already left. Developed by veterans, for veterans, Op COURAGE is available across England.

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust is the lead provider of Op COURAGE for the North of England, Tees Esk and Wear Valley FT work in partnership with CNTW and Pennine Care NHS FT, Leeds and York Partnership NHS FT, Humber Teaching NHS FT, Walking With The Wounded, and Combat Stress.

Op COURAGE offers a range of specialist support and treatment for members of the armed forces community, which includes:

  • helping to recognise and treat early signs of mental health problems, as well as more advanced mental health conditions and psychological trauma.
  • providing support and treatment for co-occurring mental health and substance use
  • liaising with charities and local organisations to support wider health and wellbeing, such as help with housing, relationships, finances, and employment.
  • referring to other NHS services, where needed
  • recognising that family may also need help and care and supporting them to access this.

As a Senior Community Nurse, the applicant will have experience of working in adult mental health services, completing assessments and formulating collaborative care plans, managing risk and supporting recovery.  It would be an advantage to have knowledge/experience of the armed forces.

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Current professional registration with Nursing & Midwifery Council - RNMH or RNLD (RNSC – CAMHS only ) – RGN (If appropriate)
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
  • Recognised Practice Supervisor and/or Practice Assessor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within 6 months
  • Trained in Clinical Supervision and providing clinical supervision OR willingness to work towards within 6 months

Experience

Essential criteria
  • 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework)
  • Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers.
  • Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.
  • Supervising or assessing students on practice placement.
  • Working in a multi-disciplinary team
  • Quality improvement activities

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence based practice in caring for patients in the designated field
  • Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act).
  • Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice.
  • Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
  • Clinical Governance and its application in practice.
  • Research and development methodology.
  • Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment.
  • Working knowledge of clinical medicines management, including administration of injections.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employer

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Amanda Davison
Job title
Operational Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
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