Community Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

To participate in the provision of a high quality care. This will involve assessing, supporting, monitoring of the service users who are experiencing mental health issues.

It will involve you're working in a variety of community settings; it will include you liaising and co working with other services both statutory and non statutory.

It will involve you're working with carers and families of service users and will involve seeing service users families and carers in their own homes, clinics or in other environments such as hostels, supported living and residential settings.

Main duties of the job

• To work as a Care-coordinator or Lead Professional within the team in the planning, delivery, co-ordination and evaluation of assessments and formulation
• To work closely and collaboratively with other members of the team including Therapist's, Medical professionals, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals and support staff.
• To carry out complex person-centred assessments.
• To ensure that all care offered is evidence based and all interventions take into account specific physical, cultural, psychological and spiritual needs of service users.
• To assess care needs, devise care programmes, packages of care including Risk assessment, Dialog+ and implement and evaluate these in collaboration with individual service users and their carers.
• To support and mentor less experienced staff, support workers and students from related professional backgrounds who are on placement within the team.
• To undertake duties designed to extend clinical and managerial expertise as delegated by the Team Manager when required.
• To undertake comprehensive outcome monitoring of all referrals.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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