Care Home Liaison Nurse - Blaenau Gwent - INTERNAL

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English. Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments OR SUPPORT needed. If you need any documents in a larger font or a different format (such as braille) please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3 OR EMAIL abb.vacancyrequests@wales.nhs.uk If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email. We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly. Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form. Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working. Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment processJob OverviewPLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM STAFF CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY ANEURIN BEVAN UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD The post holder will be responsible for delivering a person-centred, multi-layered therapeutic service to older people living with a mental illness in a care setting. The post holder will need to ensure their delivery is cost-effective, responsive, robust, and clinically sound. The post holder will attend care homes to assess, review and offer specialist advice for older people living in a care setting, with a dementia, cognitive impairment, or functional mental illness. The post holder will be required to adapt their skills to suit the specific person’s complex needs, advocating on behalf of the patient and, where appropriate, supporting the least restrictive solutions. To provide complex, sensitive information to patients in a care home setting who have varying degrees of barriers to understanding (mental Illness, dementia or cognitive impairment. Utilising empathy, persuasion and reassurance. Plans and oversees the provision of care for patients in a care home setting. Main duties of the job The patient could be under any part of the mental health measure and therefore, the skills of the nurse will need to be broad and multi-faceted. The post holder will give support, advise, education and assistance to staff working in care homes, within their allocated geographic area, and ensuring the guidance shared is evidence-based. The post holder will utilise other professional groups and/or services to ensure all opportunities are afforded to the patent, to ensure they are well cared for and living as well as possible within the confines of their mental illness. The post holder will support the Directorate to deliver the Welsh Government/ Public Health Wales targets – including reduction in anti-psychotic prescribing. The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply. Working for our organisation Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff. We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work. Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future. Knowledge Desirable criteria

• Understanding of Care Home Liaison Role
• Understanding of Documentation
• Knowledge of the Mental Health Measures

Qualifications Essential criteria

• Mental Health & Learning Disability Nursing Degree
• NMC qualification

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in Band 5 role