Senior Mental Health Nurse Practitioner - Incentives Apply

at  Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

Are you a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with a passion for working with children and young people who have experienced significant trauma and have complex needs?
Are you motivated by a role where you can make a huge difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable individuals in the community?
If so, our senior nursing position at Lansdowne Secure Children’s Home in Hailsham, East Sussex is the role for you!
This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a knowledgeable, dynamic Mental Health Nurse. You will be joining a friendly, supportive and creative multi-disciplinary team, dedicated to providing a high-quality service that addresses the health inequalities experienced by our young people.
Please note: Although we are seeking to recruit a Band 7 Mental Health Senior Nurse Practitioner (who has a NMP qualification, or a willingness to complete the training), we would also welcome applications from nurses at Band 6 who would like to train as non-medical nurse prescriber and are interested in a development role.
This post offers the Trust’s £4,000 Incentive for band 5-7 Nurses & Practitioners, as well as a relocation package up to a maximum of £8,000 (subject to terms and conditions).

IT WOULD ALSO BE ADVANTAGEOUS IF YOU ARE:

• Experienced working in CAMHS (Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services) and/or inpatient settings, experience with developmental trauma, neuro-disability and/or forensic CAMHS.
• A nurse prescriber qualification would also be desirable - and if not already an interest in completing this qualification would be essential.
  Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role.
  The setting
  Lansdowne Secure Children’s Home is 12 bedded provision for young people aged 12-17. The young people are placed with us for welfare reasons, secured under the Children’s Act (1989), Section 25. They have a history of persistent absconding and are likely to continue to abscond from anything other than secure accommodation, during which episodes they are likely to suffer significant harm, or injure themselves or others. The young people have complex needs and are described as ‘high need/high vulnerability/high risk’.
  The IHEWS Team
  The Integrated Health & Emotional Wellbeing Service (IHEWS) is an embedded multidisciplinary health team commissioned by NHS England to support the physical and mental healthcare needs of young people at Lansdowne Secure Children’s Home (SCH). It is a small, welcoming and supportive team of 6.5 wte across physical and mental health nursing, psychology, occupational therapy, psychiatry, speech and language therapy and administration.
  You will need to be able to work autonomously but will also work closely with the Physical Health Senior Nurse Practitioner and the wider multi-disciplinary health team and will receive supervision from both a Senior Nurse in the SPFT Acute CAMHS Nursing team and a Clinical Psychologist in the IHEWS.

• Initial assessment of mental health, neuro-disability and risk on a young person’s entry to Lansdowne, updating and reviewing on a regular basis
• Providing collaborative and individualised evidence based care plans, liaising with and supporting multiagency working
• Contributing to the creation and review of a multidisciplinary and multiagency formulation about the young person’s presenting difficulties and needs
• Providing short-term treatment/interventions with a small cohort of young people
• Supporting the day-to-day social care staff in the maintenance of a trauma informed therapeutic milieu
• Leading on the use of our clinical information system (Systm1), updating assessment and MDT care planning and supporting care staff with medication information
• Leading on the use of NHS Improvements Telemedicine Exponential (online access to health care)
  This is a full time (1 WTE) post.
  Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
  We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we’ll do our best to make it happen.
  We’d love you to join our Trust that is rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.