Community Psychiatric Nurse

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated Band 5 NMC registered Mental Health Nurse  to Join the Gainsborough Community Mental Health team. The team provide a 5 day a week service, Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.   We are a friendly, supportive and proactive team with a culture of delivering a high quality of care. The team works collaboratively with a range of internal and external partners, GPs, Neighbourhood teams, Social workers and Integrated Placed based teams.

The team provide therapeutic interventions for those individuals that experience  severe and enduring mental illness. Offering nursing interventions in a wide variety of clinical, therapeutic and social forms with the aim of promoting health, wellbeing, self autonomy and independence.

The Successful candidate will work effectively in the multidisciplinary team and work collaboratively to provide high quality mental health assessments, treatment plans and risk management plans, providing evidence based nursing interventions.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be providing high quality person-centred care to patients, families and carers. You will act as care co-ordinator, undertaking comprehensive evidence-based assessments and have a sound knowledge of Psycho-social interventions, supporting service users to work towards recovery goals, build self-resilience and promote independent living.

Promote engagement and involve service users/ carers in the planning and delivery of compassionate care.

Monitor the impact and effectiveness of nursing care delivered.

Make and maintain accurate record keeping. Provide problem solving skills by identifying solutions in routine clinical issues. Participate in regular clinical and management supervision.

The successful applicant will be required to have a good knowledge of the medication management policy and safely administer medication as prescribed.

The applicant must have a flexible and 'can do' approach, with the ability to work under pressure and adapt to changes, often at short notice. A positive attitude is essential for effective team work and management of the challenges and complexities within our work.

The post holder will also need to have the ability to travel independently in the community to deliver services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Manage a caseload in the community; establishing priorities within that caseload; ensuring effective use of time

To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning, working towards recovery.

To act as an autonomous practitioner making decisions about service user care as appropriate with the nursing and wider multi-disciplinary team.

To ensure up to date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place using clinical outcome measures; involving service users/ carers in the planning and delivery of care in a compassionate and appropriate manner which considers their diverse needs

Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances.

Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk.

Medication management.

To assess carers’ and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for carers and families.

Maintain the welfare and safety of service users and protect them from any form of abuse in  accordance with safeguarding guidance

Liaison and collaborative working with internal and external agencies, promoting effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making.

To maintain accurate and timely clinical records.

To adhere to N.M.C. codes of professional conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation.

To participate in Clinical Governance activities, including induction, supervision, personal development review, health and safety, risk management and audit.

Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments including post registration education, training and continuing professional development.