Community Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

As a Community Mental Health Nurse for Adult Community South, you will be expected to...

• take a clinical role in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of services for clients.
• contribute and participate in multi-disciplinary team assessment.
• be involved in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of person-centred care planning and person centred formulations.
• provide a first line response to referrals, providing where necessary a health and social care needs assessment or meeting the needs already identified in a health and social care needs assessment.
• As lead care professional  to ensure accurate mental health clustering is carried out on admission, discharge and at reviews.

Main duties of the job

• Ensure that nursing practice is person centred and, as far as possible, promoting the direct involvement of patients and carers in the development of the plan of care from admission to discharge.
• Ensure that clinical practice is consistent with the Care Programme Approach.
• Identify personal learning and training needs through appraisal and personal development plans linked to service needs.
• Take responsibility for ensuring that personal nursing practice is informed by relevant local and national developments and is evidenced based.
• Under the direction of the Community Team Manager, participate in clinical audit and clinical governance activities.
• Regularly undertake research and development and clinical trials, as necessary to own work.
• Carrying out Risk Assessment Act as the lead care professional for a case-load of patients with ultimate responsibility for providing an individualized plan of care for each patient.
• Delegate appropriate tasks to junior staff where appropriate.
• Act as duty clinician as needed. Cover FACT function when on rota and support team with FACT function as needed.
• Share information with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, either verbal or written.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service

NHS discounts and many more

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