Senior Practitioner

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About Us

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:

• We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
• We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.

EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values

Our Vision

"To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care".

Our Purpose

"We care for people every day. What we do together, matters".

Our Values

• We Care
• We Learn
• We Empower

Our strategic objectives

• We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
• We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
• We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
• We will help our communities to thrive.

Our services

• Mental Health Services
• Community Health Services
• Learning Disabilities Services
• Social Care

Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.

Job overview

You will work as a Band 6 Senior Community Nurse with the Crisis Response Team in
providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic assessments to patients in line with your
NMC professional code of conduct and Trust policies. You will assess, plan, implement and
evaluate packages of care based upon individual service user needs, under the guidance of
the Team Leader as per NICE guidance. The team works closely with the 2 other teams
which form the Urgent Care Pathway - Hospital Liaison and Home First - to respond to
urgent and emergency mental health crisis. Assessments can be completed within the
community and ability to drive is essential. The Team have use of a lease car. The team also
covers the 111 Option 2 telephone contact service and a part of your role will be to take calls
from service users contacting this service.
As required by your manager, you will have responsibility for the day to day co-ordination of
the shifts within the Crisis Response Team.
You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users,
carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering
services; providing a 7-day a week, 24-hours a day service for 365 days a year working
shifts where appropriate and operationally required.

Main duties of the job

You will work as a Band 6 Senior Community Nurse with the Crisis Response Team in
providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic assessments to patients in line with your
NMC professional code of conduct and Trust policies. You will assess, plan, implement and
evaluate packages of care based upon individual service user needs, under the guidance of
the Team Leader as per NICE guidance. The team works closely with the 2 other teams
which form the Urgent Care Pathway - Hospital Liaison and Home First - to respond to
urgent and emergency mental health crisis. Assessments can be completed within the
community and ability to drive is essential. The Team have use of a lease car. The team also
covers the 111 Option 2 telephone contact service and a part of your role will be to take calls
from service users contacting this service.
As required by your manager, you will have responsibility for the day to day co-ordination of
the shifts within the Crisis Response Team.
You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users,
carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering
services; providing a 7-day a week, 24-hours a day service for 365 days a year working
shifts where appropriate and operationally required.

Working for our organisation

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

• Season Ticket Loans
• NHS discounts for staff
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
• Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please note that this role outline serves to provide an illustrative example of the duties and
responsibilities you may be expected to undertake during the course of your normal duties. It
is not an exhaustive list and you will therefore be required to undertake other responsibilities
and duties that are considered to be commensurate with the band.
Core Clinical Function
• Provide comprehensive assessment and care planning in line with the requirements
of the Mental Health Care Clusters
• Produce accurate and timely documentation on all service users in line with your
professional code of conduct and Trust policy.
• Triage of referrals received and to ensure a timely response and accurate allocation
of referrals received according to risks.
• Participate in the planning and ongoing review of service users either awaiting
assessment or allocation for continuing care to ensure care provided is effective and
safe
• Provide practical support, advice, signposting and education to service users, carers
and other disciplines.
• Have an awareness of other statutory and voluntary service provisions to signpost
service users for appropriate care.
• Responsible for the recording of all patient related activity information onto Paris.
• Carry out risk assessment of the individual and of the potential hazards in the service
user's environment.
• Report and document incidents as required.
• Provide education and support to develop service users understanding of mental
illness.
• Be competent in use of relevant screening and assessment tools.
• Support the induction and ongoing development of newly qualified nursing staff.
• Participate in audit and research

Person specification

Relevant Degree or Diploma

Essential criteria

• Achieved Grade

Desirable criteria

• Achieved Grade

Experience

Essential criteria

• 2 years post graduate experience

Desirable criteria

• 1 years post graduate experience

Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered 'suitable alternative employment' to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Important Professional References

Make sure that as a part of your application you have professional references with business contract information covering your last three year employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.

As a newly appointed employee you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post, the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.

Applications for Job Share are positively welcomed.

Equal Opportunities Employer

Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email epunft.recruitment.adverts@nhs.net and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.

The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.

Covid Vaccination

Although Covid vaccinations are no longer a mandatory requirement within the NHS we continue to encourage and support the vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against Covid19. The safety of our staff and patients is a top priority for us at EPUT.

If you would like to book a Covid vaccination or would like more information please contact us by emailing epunft.cv19hr@nhs.net.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Band 5 6 Nurse (PDF, 720.5KB)
• Band 6 Nurse (PDF, 544.3KB)
• EPUT Pledge - Step into Health (PDF, 211.0KB)
• Candidate Privacy Policy (PDF, 336.6KB)
• Right to Work Information (PDF, 293.6KB)
• Employer Recognition Scheme - Gold Award (PDF, 27.7KB)
• Trust Vision and Values (PDF, 168.9KB)
• Values of the NHS Pension (PDF, 151.3KB)