About this role
Job summary
Do you have the knowledge and experience to support people living with dementia, including young onset dementia, and their families? Are you able to work autonomously as a named key worker, undertaking triage, assessment, and ongoing monitoring, while providing pre and post diagnostic support?
Can you deliver tailored, non-pharmacological interventions using a whole family approach, and confidently identify and manage both cognitive decline and non cognitive symptoms?
Are you experienced in working within a multidisciplinary team and collaborating with Primary Care, statutory, and voluntary/third sector services, with nurse prescribing skills (or a willingness to develop these) being desirable?
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
To operate as a Community Mental Health Nurse within the Older Adult's pathway within North Tyneside Memory Clinic, particularly Early Onset Dementia
To provide specialist skills, knowledge and experience for those identified as having MentalHealth problems.
To work as part of a Community Team which may be integrated, working collaboratively and in partnership with other services.
To be compassionate in meeting the needs of Service User's and their carers.
To be professionally accountable and responsible for service user care. To undertake arange of clinical / therapeutic interventions within the service user's home environment orother community settings.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistentleadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job description Job responsibilities
To undertake specialist Mental Health Nurse role within the broader Mental Health Services for Older People department. To operate within a multidisciplinary framework and contribute meaningfully to the development of the service, and the provision of safe and effective care. Reportable to Team Manager.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration Essential
Registered Mental Health Nurse Part 1 with Current NMC registration. Successful completion of a post qualification Preceptorship programme. Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period unless post is bank only). Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
Desirable
Leadership or management qualification Post-basic qualification at Diploma / Degree level Non-medical prescribing qualification or interest in working towards.
Experience and knowledge Essential
Relevant post qualification experience in Older Adult Mental Health Services. Experience of working in a Mentor capacity with relevant qualification or willing to work towards. Knowledge and application of psychologically based therapeutic interventions.
Desirable
Experience of working with people with mental ill health in a community environment. Caseload management and experience of working autonomously. Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Other requirements Essential
It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes or has a Trust lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Memory Clinic
North Tyneside General Hospital
North Shields
NE29 8NH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)