Community Mental Health Care Practitioner

Job overview

We are looking to recruit 1 Band 6 Community Mental Psychiatric Nurse with a passion for working with people with mental health condition.

This is a well established, high performing team delivering compassionate care in the community to adults who suffer from mental health problem. You will be working in a team that is diverse in background, highly motivated, friendly, agile, flexible and responsive.

The post-holder will provide effective and timely care within a multidisciplinary team setting for working age adults who present with functional mental health problems who are residing in the London Borough of Enfield.

The post holder will carry a defined caseload and will work closely with other members of the team, including Psychologists, Medical professionals, Social Workers, Nurses other Health & Allied professionals to ensure that the best quality of care is provided.

This work will be underpinned by a bio psycho social model of care and the post holder will ensure that best practice psycho-social interventions are offered wherever possible within their skill set.

Main duties of the job

• To work as a Key clinician (CPN) within the team in the planning, delivery, co-ordination and evaluation of assessments and formulation
• To work closely and collaboratively with other members of the team including Psychologists Medical professionals and other Allied Professionals to provide optimal
• To carry out complex person-centred assessments.
• To ensure that all care offered is evidence based and all interventions take into account specific physical, cultural, psychological and spiritual needs of service users.
• To assess care needs, devise care programmes, packages of care including Risk assessment, Dialog+ and implement and evaluate these in collaboration with individual service users and their carers.
• To support and mentor less experienced staff, support workers and students from related professional backgrounds who are on placement within the team.
• To undertake duties designed to extend clinical and managerial expertise as delegated by the Team Manager when required.
• To undertake comprehensive outcome monitoring of all referrals.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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