About this role
Job summary
We are looking for a resilient and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist or Mental Health Nurse to join our East Sussex Personality Disorder Service: Thinking Well.
This post would be an ideal opportunity for someone with a passion for working with people who have complex emotional needs and personality disorder. We are a supportive team with a commitment to reflective practice, formulation and co-production. We offer a group-based programme, so we are looking for someone who is confident facilitating psychoeducational & clinical groups. Some of the groups we have run are Emotion Regulation, Recovery through Activity; SUN (Service user network), SCM informed skills and MBT (Mentalization Based Treatment) Groups. There will be an opportunity for training & development in these areas.
This service is located in Lewes Well Being Centre on a Monday, Bexhill Well Being Centre on a Tuesday, Eastbourne Well Being Centre on a Thursday. The team has a work base at the Woodside Annexe in Hellingly, which is sometimes used for team meetings or administrative purposes, and travel expenses are calculated from this base. The post holder to be willing to travel across East Sussex.
The post is 37.5hrs, but open to discussion regarding flexible working.
This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).
Main duties of the job
This is a varied role that involves Nurse/ OT assessment, formulation, and interventions, as well as safety planning, consultation, reflective practice and training the team and other agencies to work with personality disorder. You will be well supported in individual supervision and team reflective practice sessions to take up this role.
Please see job descriptions for OT and Nurse posts.
About us
We're a large NHS Mental Health Trust in South East England. We're looking for people to help us provide high quality services for the patients, carers and local communities we serve.
We want patients and staff to recommend our organisation as a place where they would be happy for their friends and family to be treated. You can help us do this by bringing your skills, experience and commitment to Sussex Partnership.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated our services good, following their most recent inspection, and outstanding in the caring domain
Job description Job responsibilities
To provide occupational therapy interventions for referred clients using evidence based, client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions. To promote and develop the role of Occupational Therapy within the clinical area. To act as a care coordinator if appropriate
The role of Community Nurse is to work in partnership with service users in the designatedcare group with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plansto enable them to lead fulfilling lives. They will demonstrate an understanding of clinicalinterventions relevant the care group to include education, care plans and discharge planning,working closely with carers, families and partner agencies to facilitate this. The post holder will work at all times to promote the safety and the well being of service users and their families/carers. The post holder will assess, plan and implement care, and provide specialist nursing advice and carry out specialist nursing procedures. They will provide clinical supervision to staff and students.
Please see job descriptions for OT and Nurse posts for further information.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent Evidence of continuous professional development
Knowledge/Experience Essential
Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group Experience of supervising staff Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems Experience of working consultatively with professionals Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies Experience of working within the CPA process Understanding of clinical governance Previous experience of working in the community
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.
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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 Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address Wellbeing Centre
Eastbourne
BN21 3AW
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)