Senior Community Mental Health Nurse - Memory

Job overview

The ideal candidate will be highly motivated and be able to demonstrate best practice in community mental health service delivery for older people, their families and carers. The ability to work independently, effectively and collaboratively within Multidisciplinary Teams, with external partners, and most importantly - with people, their families and unpaid or paid carers, is an essential core competency.

As Senior Nurse, you will support the team's triage and duty system as part of a rota. You will undertake a detailed assessment using a holistic memory assessment framework, with the initial collation of all clinically relevant individual service user information (clinical history) and involving families and carers as part of our genuine commitment to co-creation. In this way you will promote positive experience and clinical outcomes from the beginning of the person's service journey.

Candidates must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework at the time of applying.

This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. However, sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements, therefore, we recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an experienced Nurse (fixed term/secondment - 12 months) who will thrive amongst the multi-disciplinary team of professionals to assess, formulate and provide feedback to patients within their journey. You will work within a team of Registered Mental Health nurses, Support worker, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, as well as wider partner agencies including primary care services, social care and voluntary sector agencies.

We offer robust supervision arrangements and a comprehensive induction and workforce development plan with a vast array of personal, professional and academic training opportunities enabling you to expand your skill set and evidence based practices.

There is a requirement to accurately record and document clinical discussions and assessment details on our electronic patient record and to ensure that all individual service user documentation is up to date and available to aid formulation within the MDT meeting, providing consistent, safe and high quality decision making. The successful candidate will provide MDT formulation outcome feedback to the service user and families and carers.

You will be required to be; innovative and flexible. We require the post holders to be committed to equal opportunities and non-discriminatory practices and reflect the trust values of Responsibility, Respect and Compassion.

We would encourage candidates to contact us for an informal discussion.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.