Community Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

The Older Adults Mental Health Team has an exciting opportunity for an experienced older adult mental health nurse to join our team.

Do you have a passion for working within older adult mental health? Then come and join the team and meet likeminded people.

The Older Adults Team is working with GPs, offering advice and guidance to support patient living with Dementia.

This role will involve offering reviews for patients within the Dementia Pathway, in accessible locations across North Lincolnshire. Networking between Primary Care and Secondary Care Services is a central part of the role to ensure the patients journey between services is seamless and care and treatment is provided in a timely manner.  The role will also involve working with the wider team to triage and offer routine mental health assessments to older adults experiencing mental health problems within Primary Care.

Main duties of the job

As a member of the Older Adults Mental Health Team the post holder will provide high quality nursing interventions within the Dementia Pathway.

The post holder will be an enthusiastic, highly organised and motivated mental health professional who can provide high quality nursing expertise and support to those affected by dementia.

It is essential that the applicant can demonstrate post registration experience as an RMN, which may include inpatient and community settings. In addition, it is expected that the successful candidates will provide independent or supplementary prescribing and be willing to undertake the relevant training.

The following tasks and duties will also form part of the role, however this list is not exhaustive:

Triage of  incoming referrals to establish urgency / risk

• Holistic mental health assessment
• Development of appropriate treatment plans / signposting to relevant third sector organisations
• Recruitment, supervision, and deployment of staff.
• Advice, training and induction and mentorship of learners.
• Audit, research and service monitoring.
• Ordering, storage, monitoring and administration of medication.
• Liaison within the multi-disciplinary care team, including carers, voluntary agencies etc.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications