Experienced Older Adults Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

Experienced Community Mental Health Nurse – Band 6

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) to join our committed and enthusiastic team, working with older people who have complex needs relating to dementia and mental health difficulties.

The post will sit within our multidisciplinary community dementia team, with the successful candidate working as a Lead Practitioner, delivering assessment and interventions for people with more complex or intensive needs.

We aim to support people to remain safe and well at home for as long as possible, while maintaining the relationships and connections that are important to them.

While the core DOPMHS team operates Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, the wider service includes an Intensive Support Service, which provides support seven days a week, including weekends and bank holidays.

As this is a community-based role involving travel across the service area, applicants must be able to drive and have access to a vehicle for work.

Main duties of the job

The role of Community Nurse is to work in partnership with service users in the designated care group with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives. They will demonstrate an understanding of clinical interventions relevant the care group to include education, care plans and discharge planning, working closely with carers, families and partner agencies to facilitate this. The post holder will work at all times to promote the safety and the well being of service users and their families/carers. The post holder will assess, plan and implement care, and provide specialist nursing advice and carry out specialist nursing procedures. They will provide clinical supervision to staff and students.

This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

• To contribute to the management of a team caseload of clients with complex needs, using CPA principles, evidence based/client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions, which will be delivered in the Dementia and Older Adults Mental Health Service.
• To support/manage a team caseload and attend relevant MDT meetings
• To regularly support and cover the duty rota
• To provide specialist assessment and intervention as part of a multi-disciplinary approach, with specific responsibilities regarding the care pathway
• To provide risk screening and assessment as well as risk management planning
• To contribute to and facilitate evidence-based assessments and individual and group interventions
• To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Service
• To regularly share and supervise students on practice placement, and junior staff as appropriate

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.