Community Mental Health Nurse - EBSS inEdinburgh inEdinburgh PUBLISHED 31 AUG 2024

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.

Mental Health Nurse Band 6 1.0wte Permanent Edinburgh Behaviour Support Service (EBSS)

EBSS is a psychology-led co-discipline specialist service to Edinburgh City care homes for residents with dementia presenting with distress behaviours. The service promotes evidence based, psychosocially informed interventions and they have particular expertise in providing formulation driven interventions for frequent, intense and complex presentations.

We are delighted to be able to recruit to an additional nursing team member. The post holder will join a team comprising of Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Psychologist and three other Band 6 Nursing staff as part of the EBSS clinical team based at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. The post holder will have a clinical caseload and will provide clinical assessment, formulation and intervention on direct case work. EBSS provide training to care home staff within the NES Responses to Stress & Distress in Dementia and Essentials In Psychological Care – Dementia training programmes and the post holder will be expected to deliver training across this programme and will be fully supported to do so. EBSS have their own allocated administrative support.

We are seeking to recruit to this permanent post in our established specialist team within Edinburgh Older People’s Mental Health. We are looking for an individual with specific interest in - and commitment to - working with individuals with advanced dementia and their caregivers who can demonstrate the ability to work effectively as part of a team and provide excellent care and intervention outcomes. This post offers excellent opportunities for multi-disciplinary working across care systems and settings, development of psychologically informed assessment and intervention skills, experience of training delivery and service audit, research and evaluation.

Previous attendance at NES Psychological Responses to Stress and Distress 2 day enhanced/expertise level training and experience in the delivery of training is desirable although full training, supervision from psychology and support from the team will be given to individuals with potential to develop and who meet other essential and desirable criteria, as evidenced in both their written application and interview.

You must hold required NMC registration. EBSS nurses have agreed professional nursing management arrangements with operational management and clinical case supervision provided by the Clinical Psychology Leads on a day-to-day basis.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for additional detail. However, should you wish to discuss the post in more detail, please contact Dr. Donna Gilroy, Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Professional Lead for Older People’s Psychology (or 6044).

NHS Scotland is reducing their full-time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Recruiting Board. NHS Scotland is reducing their full-time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Recruiting Board.