Community Mental Health Nurse | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date04 December 2024

Closing date03/01/2025 13:37:22

Salary£42,939 - £50,697 pa inc

LocationBexleyheath, DA6 8DX

CompanyOxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Job typeContract

HoursFull Time

Reference15693007

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Work as an effective professional in a multidisciplinary Community Mental Health Team. To prioritise and respond to urgent referrals for assessments as required and deliver high quality health and social care within the Care Programme Approach framework and to participate in the duty and may sometimes represent the team at the Integrated Care Network meetings.

Hold care coordinator responsibility for a complex caseload of services users and their carers.

Responsibility for assessing individual care needs and the planning, implementation, and evaluation of care plans, in line with Oxleas Foundation Trust CPA policy.

Provide supervision, mentorship & leadership for support workers and Student Nurses, as appropriate.

Demonstrate understanding and use of clinical supervision to reflect upon and modify own and others practice.

The post holder will be expected to coordinate and manger a complex caseload with particular focus on:

Responsibility for maintaining high standards of professional and clinical practice in all disciplines.

To ensure that all the organisational policies, procedures and guidelines are adhered to as well as contributing to the development of local ones.

The post holder will be expected to ensure the development of services that are comprehensive, flexible and promote a culture of service users and carers’ involvement at every stage of the care pathway.

The post holder is expected to have experience of working in a complex and challenging environment.

The post holder will be expected to have a particular focus on:

• Ensure that they function in line with the agreed Operational Policy.

• Ensure that a culture of effective risk management is present in the team.

• Take a lead on management of complex cases and supporting less experienced staff with the management of such cases.





• Respond to serious untoward incidents as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation.

• Respond to Safeguarding Adult alerts as appropriate.

• Ensure complaints are investigated fully, within the time limits ensuring a proactive approach is standard and in accordance with trust policies.

• Respond to communications regarding team issues.

• Supporting the Trust’s reputation with a focus on a positive attitude with strong commitment to results.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

The post holder will be expected to coordinate and manger a complex caseload with particular focus on:

Responsibility for maintaining high standards of professional and clinical practice in all disciplines.

To ensure that all the organisational policies, procedures and guidelines are adhered to as well as contributing to the development of local ones.

The post holder will be expected to ensure the development of services that are comprehensive, flexible and promote a culture of service users and carers’ involvement at every stage of the care pathway.

The post holder is expected to have experience of working in a complex and challenging environment.

The post holder will be expected to have a particular focus on:

• Ensure that they function in line with the agreed Operational Policy.

• Ensure that a culture of effective risk management is present in the team.

• Take a lead on management of complex cases and supporting less experienced staff with the management of such cases.





• Respond to serious untoward incidents as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation.

• Respond to Safeguarding Adult alerts as appropriate.

• Ensure complaints are investigated fully, within the time limits ensuring a proactive approach is standard and in accordance with trust policies.

• Respond to communications regarding team issues.

• Supporting the Trust’s reputation with a focus on a positive attitude with strong commitment to results.


This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Dec 2024

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