Senior Community Clinician

Job overview

You will work as a Band 6 Senior Community Nurse with the NE Home First Team in providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic assessments to patients in line with your NMC professional code of conduct and Trust policies.

You will assess, plan, implement and evaluate packages of care based upon individual service user needs, under the guidance of the Team Leader as per NICE guidance.

The team works closely with the 2 other teams which form the Urgent Care Pathway – Hospital Liaison and Crisis Response team - to respond to urgent and emergency mental health crisis.

Assessments can be completed within the community and ability to drive is essential. The Team have use of a lease car.

As required by your manager, you will have responsibility for the day to day co-ordination of the shifts within the NE Home First Team.

You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering services; providing a 7-day a week, 24-hours a day service for 365 days a year working shifts where appropriate and operationally required.

Shifts are 11.5 hours with an hour break time.

Main duties of the job

 Produce accurate and timely documentation on all service users in line with your professional code of conduct and Trust policy.  Triage of referrals received and to ensure a timely response and accurate allocation of referrals received according to risks.  Participate in the planning and ongoing review of service users either awaiting assessment or allocation for continuing care to ensure care provided is effective and safe  Provide practical support, advice, signposting and education to service users, carers and other disciplines.  Have an awareness of other statutory and voluntary service provisions to signpost service users for appropriate care.  Responsible for the recording of all patient related activity information onto Paris.  Provide education and support to develop service users understanding of mental illness.  Support the induction and ongoing development of newly qualified nursing staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will work as a Band 6 Senior Community Nurse with the NE Home First Team in providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic assessments to patients in line with your NMC professional code of conduct and Trust policies.

You will assess, plan, implement and evaluate packages of care based upon individual service user needs, under the guidance of the Team Leader as per NICE guidance.

The team works closely with the 2 other teams which form the Urgent Care Pathway – Hospital Liaison and Crisis Response team - to respond to urgent and emergency mental health crisis.

Assessments can be completed within the community and ability to drive is essential. The Team have use of a lease car.

As required by your manager, you will have responsibility for the day to day co-ordination of the shifts within the NE Home First Team.

You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering services; providing a 7-day a week, 24-hours a day service for 365 days a year working shifts where appropriate and operationally required.

Shifts are 11.5 hours with an hour break time.