Community Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

This role is not eligble for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn

The Central Shropshire Community Mental Health Team is recruiting a Band 5 Community Mental Health Nurse.

In the role you will work in an adult community mental health service, delivering a high-quality clinical service to patients and their families. You will be working with an identified caseload with access to regular and robust supervision.

You will be delivering nursing interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to an identified group of people experiencing mental health related difficulties.

You will work in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team and will provide nursing interventions to support the person to meet their agreed goals and coordinate and / or participate in the review of progress towards those goals, utilising recommended outcome measures, involving the service user and any identified carer throughout the clinical pathway.

You will need to travel independently over a large geographical area and will require suitable transport

Main duties of the job

• Take responsibility, with supervision of the Band 6 Nurse, for the management of a complex caseload, which includes, specialist assessment (within service specification), care planning in conjunction with service user and carer, evaluation of individual treatment plans.
• Responsible for participating in the setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing of practice in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.
• Administer medication, complying with relevant Trust procedures and NMC Guidance.
• Assess patient's individual care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
• Deliver a range of interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care and Pathway guidance including; pharmacological and psychologically informed interventions.
• Complete and contribute, where appropriate to robust risk assessments and risk management plans. Deliver and promote positive risk taking, where appropriate, to improve quality of life and maximise occupational performance/independence.
• Maintain an effective reporting system by observing and reporting verbally and in writing on patient conditions.
• Utilise agreed outcome measures to review the effectiveness of interventions, as part of the care planning and evaluation process.
• Support in the provision of formal and informal training of pre/post registration students, staff members, carers and service users.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role including key responsibilities

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.