Senior Community Mental Health Nurse (Older Persons)

Job overview

Community Mental health Team in Central Norfolk

Come and join a great team who care about service users and each other.

Working with people with moderate to severe mental illness who require specialist secondary care services as well as people with dementia and comorbid mental illness..  The team provides a  comprehensive service and works with a variety of other services to connect people to the support they need.

You will be based at Gateway House in Wymondham and work as part of a team  assessing and treating people people with moderate to severe mental illness who require specialist services and whose needs cannot be met elsewhere in the local system or by other partners.. The team provides diagnoses and formulates holistic, person-centred care and treatment.  You may be required to undertake assessments in a patients own home based on clinical need and you need to be wiling to travel across South Norfolk.

Our Team is in a phase of transformation and modernisation  and you need to be willing to respond positively to change that will benefit service users and new ways of working.  We are committed to developing and improving the service. We value research and have received a Trust Excellence Award for our engagement in research.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assess people with moderate to severe mental illness There will be some memory assessment work in the role.  The postholder will develop treatment plans with support from an experienced team that includes Consultant Psychiatrists, Clinical Psychologists, Senior Nurses and an Occupational Therapist.   The postholder will ensure service users have a clear recovery and discharge plan from the beginning of treatment.

NSFT's Community Services for Older People were rated Good in the most recent CQC inspection report and we are proud of our positive and caring approach to the patients and carers we are working with.

As a team we focus on Continuing Professional Development and have a drive for further developing our clinical knowledge and skills. The team have established links with Primary Care and other agencies, which enhance our work and ensure we are able to help and support our patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The post holder will undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care with appropriate supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multi-disciplinary and multiagency environment.
• Support and advising to other health care professionals. To support aspects of service development.
• Provide an appropriate learning environment for relevant students.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

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