18 Oct
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
High Wycombe
Job description
Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic and motivated qualified Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) looking to develop your career in community mental health?
The post is to work within our Memory Clinic. You will have specialist knowledge of the care of older adults with mental health conditions and co existing physical health concerns.
We are looking for a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) to join our Memory Assessment Service, full time.
The Memory Assessment service in Buckinghamshire has two main bases : Aylesbury and High Wycombe.
The team are friendly and supportive as well as dedicated to providing excellent care and service through evidence-based interventions, research and quality improvement work.
We work closely with families and carers as well as other services including social services who may be involved in supporting our patients / clients who have complex needs.
The team enjoy having a range of students learning and working with them and have gained consistent positive feedback.
This role carries an incentive premium of £3,500 which will be paid in instalments over an 18-month period. Please note that this scheme is not open to existing employees of Oxford Health and is subject to a claw back clause.
Further information will be provided.
Main duties of the job
This post will be within well-established team which will be working together to provide pre and post diagnosis support for service users with concerns about their memory and their careers.
The service will be delivered mainly in a clinic environment, but on occasions home visits may be needed. The aim of this service is providing early assessment and diagnosis of memory concerns and intensive post diagnostic support.
To provide a highly specialised nursing assessment, evidence-based intervention, advice and support for their own case load of people with concerns around memory function or a new diagnosis of dementia and their careers.
The post holder will provide up-to-date clinical advice, support liaison education and training to other staff and agencies.
Will be an active member of the multi-disciplinary team and will work in close co-operation with primary care and other community agencies.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases,
hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive : Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team
Our values are : Caring, safe and excellent
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include :
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Trust provide many development opportunities for staff through our Learning and development department and links with university's and our Quality Improvement team.
Health Education England are also providing funding within the Trust, to support staff training needs. The leadership team are committed to continuous development and improvement through supervision, training, reflective practice, peer review and staff wellbeing.
The successful candidate should be enthusiastic, resourceful and caring,
they should have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
They will need to demonstrate a good awareness of mental health and knowledge of working with Older Adults with Mental Health problems.
In return we can offer a full induction and a focus on developing their knowledge, skills and confidence further, in relation to all aspects of the post, as well as contributing to service improvements / development within the team.
This is an excellent opportunity for the successful candidate to develop their career plan further.
Applicants will need the ability to travel across the area to see patients within their homes, in a location where there are many villages and limited public transport to some of these areas.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
Professional qualification as RMN or OT
Desirable criteria
Post grad training in research or Non Medical prescriber
Knowledge
Essential criteria
To have experience of working with Older adults in a mental health setting
Desirable criteria
To have experience of working in a memory clinic
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Able to use own initiative when appropriate
- Able to challenge and be challenged.
- Able to rapport build
- All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
- Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study.
Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- We welcome applications from all sections of the community,
are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential.
All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values safe, caring and excellent.
- Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site.
The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing
▶️ Memory Clinic Nurse - Buckinghamshire
🖊️ Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
📍 High Wycombe