Community Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

The City CMHT Team at The Greenfield Centre are looking to recruit a Full-Time B6 Community Mental Health Nurse.

The successful candidate will:

Act as named nurse for a specific group of clients and provide care under the supervision of the caseload manager. To conduct assessments and to deliver specific therapeutic interventions to this group of clients and to liaise with other professionals regarding progress and outcomes.

• Ensure that practice remains abreast of new developments and to develop and maintain standards and implement change in respect of this. Liaise with other professionals and agencies both statutory and non-statutory and to provide a link between hospital and community and/or primary and secondary services.

Main duties of the job

• To operate a duty role in the screening of referrals and allocation for assessment. To provide support and guidance to colleagues over issues of risks and/ or complex clinical presentation To act as named nurse with responsibility for the assessment, planning and delivery of care to the identified patient group. To act as a Change Agent and actively seek to develop practice. To develop relationships and strengthen links and liaise between the different care providers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To act as named nurse for an identified group of patients within the well-being service. To ensure that appropriate interventions are planned and delivered according to assessed need. To promote a positive nurse patient relationship and to engage with carers/relatives as appropriate. To have responsibility for documenting the plans of care and ensuring that plans remain current and that standards for record-keeping are adhered to. To take an active role in auditing and maintaining standards of record-keeping for this group of patients.

To have responsibility for seeking support and advice from the CPN caseload Manager in respect of issues and difficulties with individual patient care. To attend regular decision-making meetings with the CPN caseload Manager in order to address caseload management issues such as acceptance of assessments, the provision of ongoing care, discharge planning, face-to-face contacts and patient mix.

To assess patient response and provide advice and education to both patient and carers in respect of prescribed medicines