Community Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

We are very excited to be able to offer a  substantive Community Mental Health Nurse post within the North Cotswolds' Recovery Team. The post part time and flexible working  can be discussed . You will be based at Leckhampton Lodge in Cheltenham but this may change in future due to pending transformation of community mental health services.  The post would mainly involve working in and around Cheltenham and the North Cotswolds.

The North Cotswolds Recovery Team is a friendly, welcoming and dynamic team providing secondary mental health care services to adults of working age, their families and significant others, to provide the best possible outcomes for people experiencing severe mental illness, with complex mental health needs. The aim of the team is to work in line with the principles of Recovery and Social Inclusion. We strive to ensure that locality services represent excellent quality, (safe and a positive experience) and good value, (efficient and effective).

The team provides a planned needs led 9am-5pm five days a week service.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity for a community mental health nurse who has some experience of working with adults of Working Age and caring for individuals with Enduring Mental Health problems. The post will include care coordinating a designated caseload, working within the Assessment and Care Management Policy and associated countywide risk procedures,  undertaking duty and initial assessments, travelling independently, use of IT skills and a working knowledge of legislation regarding safeguarding vulnerable adults, the MHA and MCA.

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

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 common and severe mental health. 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 or recovering and social inclusion and the 10 essential capabilities.
• Support clinical governance initiatives at ward / hospital level e.g. Essence of Care Clinical Audit