Bank Comm MH Nurse Band6

To cover shifts in various departments across Oxleas Trust where the Multi-Disciplinary Team have

identified that a Registered Mental Health Nurse is required to provide care to patients with complex

and enduring mental health needs.

Care Coordinators working with people with rehabilitation needs should ensure they are competent in:

o Engagement

o Working with a biopsychosocial formulation

o Assessment skills

o Using explanatory models of illness

o Knowledge of Mental Health diagnosis

o Explaining treatment options

o Negotiating skills

o Skills for working with families of people with psychosis

o Conflict management and conflict resolution.

A manual of self-management programme should be developed and delivered face-to-face with service

users, as part of the treatment and management. Self-management programmes should include:

Information and advice about psychosis

Effective use of medication

Identifying and managing symptoms

Accessing mental health and other support services

Coping with stress and other problems

What to do in a crisis

Building a social support network

Preventing relapse and setting personal recovery goals.

Care Coordinators should be skilled in working with recovery-based approaches to care planning. Theyshould be able to work flexibly and creatively with people in order to achieve their individual goals,supporting them across a range of health and social care needs, including housing, benefits and debt advice.

Care coordinators will also deliver family intervention when trained and supervised in delivery. Care Coordinators working with people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds should ensure they are competent in addressing cultural and ethnic differences in beliefs regarding biological, social and family influences on the causes of unusual mental states, treatment expectations and adherence.

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:

Qualifications

Essential: - Registered Mental Health Nurse; - Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Desirable: - 2 years Community Experience

Experience

Desirable: - Experience of liaising with other agencies

Skills

Desirable: - Experience of facilitating/planning/supporting groups in a healthcare setting/smoking cessation/activities