Community Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

Do you have the knowledge and experience to support people living with dementia, including young onset dementia, and their families? Are you able to work autonomously as a named key worker, undertaking triage, assessment, and ongoing monitoring, while providing pre and post diagnostic support?

Can you deliver tailored, non-pharmacological interventions using a whole family approach, and confidently identify and manage both cognitive decline and non cognitive symptoms?

Are you experienced in working within a multidisciplinary team and collaborating with Primary Care, statutory, and voluntary/third sector services, with nurse prescribing skills (or a willingness to develop these) being desirable?

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

• To operate as a Community Mental Health Nurse within the Older Adult’s pathway within North Tyneside Memory Clinic, particularly Early Onset Dementia
• To provide specialist skills, knowledge and experience for those identified as having Mental Health problems.
• To work as part of a Community Team which may be integrated, working collaboratively and in partnership with other services.
• To be compassionate in meeting the needs of Service User’s and their carers.
• To be professionally accountable and responsible for service user care. To undertake a range of clinical / therapeutic interventions within the service user’s home environment or other community settings.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To undertake specialist Mental Health Nurse role within the broader Mental Health Services for Older People department.
• To operate within a multidisciplinary framework and contribute meaningfully to the development of the service, and the provision of safe and effective care.
• Reportable to Team Manager.