Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse - Bristol

Job overview

This role is focused on providing appropriate, effective interventions and treatments to people with severe and enduring mental health needs, and their carers (including friends and relatives) and their supporters in the community, enabling and assisting them to meet the outcomes that are important to them and facilitating engagement with mainstream services.

The post holder will also provide clinical leadership and supervision to team members.

The role involves providing profession specific interventions to people and also bringing professional expertise into the Multi-Disciplinary Team. In addition, there may be a need to provide non-profession specific, defined, personalised interventions that are agreed through Support Conversations. These might include a range of possible generic, evidence based therapeutic interventions where staff are trained to deliver these interventions.

The role involves being responsible for Personalised Care and Support Planning through the AWP Your Team-Your Conversation-Your Plan approach, including taking on the role of “keyworker” at times and completing Safety Assessments. There may also be requirements to support the delivery of Social Care Assessments and reviews where required.

Right to Work in the UK This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver an ongoing comprehensive mental health service.

To work to the Principles of your team-your conversation-your plan:- Coproduced. Collaborative. Focused on Human Rights and Equalities. Transparent and positive approach to working with risk. Proportionate. Trauma informed.

Your Team – to facilitate a “team around the person” approach; working collaboratively with people’s social networks and with a range of agencies.

Your Conversation – to have regular personalised support conversations with people you are working with. To take dialog outcome measures within the conversations and to use these strength based conversations to co-create advance plans to keep people well and safe in the future.

Your Plan – to use Support Conversations to co-create and refresh the Personal Wellbeing Plan.

To record risk incidents and to collaboratively create and update Safety Assessments and Safety Plans.

To sometimes act as a Keyworker for people to whom you are delivering interventions. A keyworker is someone who is the key point of contact for people and their families and other teams and services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See job description for full details.

• To plan, deliver and evaluate Nursing Interventions as a member of a Multi- Disciplinary Team.
• Be aware of and demonstrate skills in the ‘Must-do actions for mental health nurses’ and demonstrate the ‘valuable personal qualities of a mental health nurse’ as outlined in the NHSE Mental-Health-Nurses-Handbook.
• Demonstrate effective leadership qualities, as reinforced in the NMC Code, that all nurses demonstrate leadership behaviours regardless of whether they occupy formal leadership positions.
• Actively initiate collaborative assessments, goal setting and planning to enable decision-making when working with service users and their families, using appropriate communication skills and strength based approaches.
• Identify service user needs through effective assessment and use the information obtained to plan individualised nursing care using a range of contemporary assessment and improvement tools.
• To influence developments that improve the person’s experience, whilst advocating on behalf of service users.
• Uphold and fulfil the nursing interventions seen as most effective and helpful for mental health service-users such as 1:1 support/time to focus and explain the clinical, social, practical options for treatment and best available evidence, as well as knowing/advising when to use medication.
• Demonstrate high-level knowledge of biopsychosocial approaches/interventions.
• Collaboratively undertake safety assessments and crisis and contingency planning to create personal safety plans, recognising situations that may increase risk, ensuring prompt action is taken to safeguard those who are vulnerable.
• Proactively respond to signs of deterioration or distress in mental, physical, cognitive and behavioural health.
• Recognise the need for liaison with and/or referral to external organisations and/or local authorities for consideration of unmet care or physical health needs.
• Organise or deliver a range of psychosocially-informed interventions in accordance with NICE guidelines, in line with post nursing registration training, competence and confidence.
• Use evidence-based practice, health promotion and motivational techniques to support service users to undertake activities of healthy daily living including personal care, sexual health, sleep hygiene, skin integrity, mobility and adaptation, incontinence, bladder and bowel health.
• Understand and apply principles of safe and effective administration and optimisation of medicines in accordance with local and national policies.
• Support and supervise newly qualified practitioners, Nursing students, Nursing Associates, or support worker colleagues in the delivery of nursing care, promoting reflection and providing constructive feedback.
• Work in line with the Community Mental Health Framework to guide MDT approaches to care, supporting the service user journey, proactively identifying and overcoming barriers to care delivery, at times of increased need, between care settings, and at point of discharge.

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.