Community Mental Health Nurse - Recovery Gloucester

Job overview

Are you a registered mental health nurse with a commitment to delivering excellent mental health care as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team?  Then look no further.

Gloucester Recovery Team is a community mental health team made up of psychiatrists, community mental health nurses, senior (B4) and Band 3 support workers, social workers and occupational therapists; and have physiotherapists and physiotherapy assistants sitting within the service.  We provide assessment and treatment for patients with significant mental health needs in the Gloucester locality.  We work closely with the Complex Psychological Therapies team and clinicians have access to training and opportunities to participate in facilitating emotional skills and Dialectical behavioural therapy group programmes.  The service provides a Clozapine and depot clinic and we actively support access to onsite and at home physical health checks and smoking cessation for all our patients in order to mitigate and reduce the known inequalities in health outcomes for many in our client group.

If you are a registered mental health nurse with relevant experience and a passion for working with people with complex mental health difficulties and are looking for an opportunity to work with different professions in a supportive and friendly team with development opportunities we would like to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

• Provide assessment and implementation of evidence-based interventions for service users who are experiencing common, acute mental health and longer-term recovery needs
• Optimise service users’ ability to remain in the community and / or be cared for in the least restrictive environment in line with the principles or recovery, social inclusion and the 10 essential capabilities
• To facilitate face to face assessments, participate in the provision of a comprehensive triage service,
• Plan interventions, support and educate service users referred to the service with a range of psychiatric illnesses.
• To maintain responsibility for a caseload of approximately 25-30 service users with severe and enduring mental illness dependant on role within their treatment.

The post holder will:

• Understand mental health difficulties, how to assess and support patients in implementing collaborative treatment plans towards achieving personal recovery
• Show compassion and care for others - both who we offer a service to and their carers/supporters and also colleagues, other agencies and
• Have the ability to work autonomously and at times under pressure and also closely with other professions as part of multidisciplinary working, utilising skills attached to professional discipline (nursing or social work)
• Demonstrate good organisational skills and ability to prioritise clinical tasks in order to meet competing demands

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be a senior member of the team working with service users across the Strategic Service Units who have a severe mental health condition. The purpose of this role is to:

• Provide assessment and implementation of evidence-based interventions for service users who are experiencing common, acute mental health and longer-term recovery needs.
• Optimise the service users’ ability to remain in the community and / or be cared for in the least restrictive environment in line with the principles of recovery and social inclusion and the 10 essential capabilities.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.