Community Nurse (Band 5)

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

About us

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:

• We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.

• We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.

EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.

Job overview

You will be working as part of a team and responsible for a caseload of individuals, providing person-centred and evidence-based intervention whilst ensuring quality interventions and high standards of documentation, you will need knowledge of physical health and the impact on mental health. You will need to be motivated, caring, compassionate and able to promote positive change to the people under your care.

• You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, patients, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering services. You will need excellent communications skills, and you will need to be able to work closely with families and carers as a routine part of care.

• You will work as a member of the nursing team in providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic nursing care to patients in line with your NMC professional code of conduct and Trust policies. You will assess, plan, implement and evaluate packages of care based upon individual service user needs, under the guidance of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner as per NICE guidance. You will also undertake and maintain service users’ Self Directed Support assessments.

Please be aware that for a community post it is essential that you have a UK driving licence and access to car for work purposes 

Please note that this post is for a registered mental health nurse RMN as essential criteria 

Main duties

You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering services; providing a 7-day a week, 24-hours a day service for 365 days a year working shifts where appropriate and operationally required.

In delivering your duties you are expected to display behaviours that are aligned with the Trust values and in accordance with the NHS Constitution at all times.

To work collaboratively with clients, service colleagues and other agencies to prevent inappropriate A&E attendances and Acute Hospital admissions

To provide advice and decisions to other service members and partner agencies in relation to crisis situations, conditions and treatment plans, based on medical history and knowledge of certain conditions.

Provide management and care of service users.

Produce accurate and timely documentation on all clients in line with your Professional Code of Conduct and Trust policies.

Conduct / contribute to the assessment process, as well as the observation and ongoing assessment, providing accurate and timely feedback.

Participate in the planning, implementation / evaluation and ongoing review of treatment plans.

Provide practical support, advice and education to service users, carers and other disciplines.

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full-time 37.5 hours per week

Salary

£27,055-£32,934

Closing date

09/01/2023 23:59