Community Mental Health Nurse - Older Peoples Team

Job overview

An exciting opportunity as arisen for a Community Psychiatric Nurse Band 5 to join the Older Peoples Community Mental Health team on an 8 month secondment/Fixed Term Contract

You will be working as part of a team and responsible for a caseload of individuals, providing person-centred and evidence based intervention whilst ensuring quality interventions and high standards of documentation, you will need knowledge of physical health and the impact on mental health.

Applicants need to ensure that they have secured an agreement from their line manager for release to take up the secondment prior to applying

Main duties of the job

• To work collaboratively with clients, service colleagues and other agencies to prevent inappropriate A&E attendances and Acute Hospital admissions
• To provide advice and decisions to other service members and partner agencies in relation to crisis situations, conditions and treatment plans, based on medical history and knowledge of certain conditions.
• Provide management and care of service users.
• Produce accurate and timely documentation on all clients in line with your Professional Code of Conduct and Trust policies.
• Conduct / contribute to the assessment process, as well as the observation and ongoing assessment, providing accurate and timely feedback.
• Participate in the planning, implementation / evaluation and ongoing review of treatment plans.
• Provide practical support, advice and education to service users, carers and other disciplines.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be working as part of a team and responsible for a caseload of individuals, providing person-centred and evidence-based intervention whilst ensuring quality interventions and high standards of documentation, you will need knowledge of physical health and the impact on mental health. You will need to be motivated, caring, compassionate and able to promote positive change to the people under your care.

You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, patients, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering services. You will need excellent communication skills, and you will need to be able to work closely with families and carers as a routine part of care.

You will work as a member of the MDT team in providing high quality, evidence- based, holistic nursing care to patients in line with your NMC professional code of conduct and Trust policies. You will assess, plan, implement and evaluate packages of care based upon individual service user needs, under the guidance of the Team Manager/Clinical Lead. You will also undertake and maintain service users’ Self-Directed Support assessments.