Mental Health Nurse Band 6

Job overview

You will be joining Haringey Community Rehabilitation Team as a Band 6 care coordinator. The team promotes Trauma Informed Rehabilitation based recovery work to support of service user independence.

You will be working with service users with complex psychosis that reside in 24 hour supported accommodation and will have a complex caseload.

You will be joining a very supportive team, where you can pull on the the experience and expertise of the full MDT.

Main duties of the job

1.Carry overall responsibility for the management of a caseload, acting as a care coordinator.

• Deliver high quality assessment, effective care and treatment that is carried out within a multidisciplinary framework and in

collaboration with other agencies.

• Involve service users and their carers in planning care that includes all of their individual and diverse needs.
• Design individual programmes of care collaboratively with patients to maximize self management and social inclusion and reflect their own goals and aspirations. Review and adjust plans according to changing service user needs.
• Provide evidence based therapeutic interventions using developed interpersonal skills such as CBT or psycho-education.
• Provide service users and their carers with clear and intelligible information which will assist them in making informed decisions about their treatment and care.
• Administer medication, monitor for effects and side-effects, in accordance with NMC Standards and Trust policies.
• Facilitate vocational rehabilitation and those aspects of mental health recovery concerning occupation.

Maintain clear, comprehensive and contemporaneous clinical records on all patients in response to personally generated clinical observations, in accordance with professional standards and Trust policies

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Deliver high quality assessment, effective care and treatment that is carried out within a multidisciplinary framework and in collaboration with other agencies.
• Involve service users and their carers in planning care that includes all of their individual and diverse needs.
• Design individual programmes of care collaboratively with patients to maximize self management and social inclusion and reflect their own goals and aspirations. Review and adjust plans according to changing service user needs.
• Provide evidence based therapeutic interventions using developed interpersonal skills such as CBT or psycho-education.
• Provide service users and their carers with clear and intelligible information which will assist them in making informed decisions about their treatment and care.
• Administer medication, monitor for effects and side-effects, in accordance with NMC Standards and Trust policies.
• Facilitate vocational rehabilitation and those aspects of mental health recovery concerning occupation.

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.