Bank Comm MH Nurse Band6

Job overview

Bank RMN Community Nurses Band 6

Do you enjoy caring for people?

Do you want the flexibility to determine your own shift pattern?

Do you already have experience, but would like to broaden your clinical experience; working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver a wide range of care?

We are inviting passionate and committed individuals to join our Trust's Staff Bank.

We are looking for motivated, skilled, and experienced Registered Mental Health Nurses (RMNs) to work in our community setting.

The BANK RMN under the direction of a nurse in charge, is accountable for the provision, organisation, and direction of safe and person centred nursing care approaches for patients.

Main duties of the job

To cover shifts in various departments across Oxleas Trust where the Multi-Disciplinary Team have

identified that a Registered Mental Health Nurse is required to provide care to patients with complex

and enduring mental health needs.

Care Coordinators working with people with rehabilitation needs should ensure they are competent in:

• Engagement
• Working with a biopsychosocial formulation
• Assessment skills
• Using explanatory models of illness
• Knowledge of Mental Health diagnosis
• Explaining treatment options
• Negotiating skills
• Skills for working with families of people with psychosis
• Conflict management and conflict resolution.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A manual of self-management programme should be developed and delivered face-to-face with service

users, as part of the treatment and management. Self-management programmes should include:

• Information and advice about psychosis
• Effective use of medication
• Identifying and managing symptoms
• Accessing mental health and other support services
• Coping with stress and other problems
• What to do in a crisis
• Building a social support network
• Preventing relapse and setting personal recovery goals.

Care Coordinators should be skilled in working with recovery-based approaches to care planning. They should be able to work flexibly and creatively with people in order to achieve their individual goals, supporting them across a range of health and social care needs, including housing, benefits and debt advice.

Care coordinators will also deliver family intervention when trained and supervised in delivery. Care Coordinators working with people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds should ensure they are competent in addressing cultural and ethnic differences in beliefs regarding biological, social and family influences on the causes of unusual mental states, treatment expectations and adherence.