Registered and Experienced Mental Health Band 6 Nurse

We are looking for a highly motivated, experienced and innovative Band 6 mental Health Practitioner to join our CMHT. Meadows CMHT is a close, lively, dynamic, nurturing, and supportive team with excellent peer support and regular supervision. You will manage a reasonable-sized caseload of service users, covering shared care and carrying out assessments. You will be involved in training, mentoring and supervising new and unregistered staff as well as providing excellent front-line clinical care. Meadows CMHT provides compassionate, kind and recovery-focused care to our patients, carers and their families. The successful candidates will have sound clinical skills, administration and IT skills including be able to type. You will also need excellent assessment and communication skills. There will be lots of shadowing/training opportunities to introduce you to the care coordination role and you will need to work alongside other agencies to promote holistic recovery-focused care. Meadows
CMHT have regular weekly training slots which are psychologically informed so that our interventions are meaningful.

Successful applicants will need a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work use., To be an active member of the multi-disciplinary team supporting the assessment and care planning for our service users. To act as care co-ordinator to an agreed caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness. To undertake ongoing review, treatment and evaluation for service users known to the service. To support the delivery of therapeutic interventions either individually or within a group setting. Support the transformation of the team to deliver local evidence-based care. To co-ordinate the care of an agreed caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness. To formulate care plans in line with identified need with service users, carers and other agencies. To provide recovery focused therapeutic interventions in line with the agreed care plan and risk assessment. To assess risk, develop risk management plans, review and adjust in line with the service user's needs. To work in collaboration with service users as experts in their own care, promoting
the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation, which value and empower the service user. To use tools which promote user empowerment (my crisis and safety plan).

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence