Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

As part of our Community Transformation programme, we have an opportunity for a Registered Mental Health Nurse to join our established Multidisciplinary team.  The aim of the service is to provide recovery-focused treatment and support via personalised care plans for individuals who are presenting with a range of mental health disorders: supporting them from diagnosis to recovery, to enable them to lead the lives they wish to live.  You will work with a Multidisciplinary Team: a spectrum of clinical professionals, which includes Nurses, Psychologists, Support Time Recovery workers, etc: as well as a range of collaborative system partners.

We are looking for a positive team player who has a special interest in working compassionately with individuals and their wider support networks.

Main duties of the job

To work within the MDT and alongside system partners to deliver high quality care and treatment to service users under the care of the specialist community mental health service.

To act as a Care Co-ordinator;  formulating care plans, completing/updating risk assessments and collaboratively review care needs via the CPA approach.

To work alongside inpatient services; supporting timely discharges from hospital in keeping with policy and processes.

To fulfil the role of the Duty Worker as part of a service rota.

To undertake Initial Assessments; delivering comprehensive feedback to the MDT and service users/referrers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provide and oversee the management and care of service users
• Produce accurate and timely documentation, conduct and manage the maintenance of records on all service users in line with your professional Code of Conduct and Trust policy
• Undertake comprehensive assessments: formulating personalised care plans which reflect the needs of the service user, their family and wider support networks
• Conduct risk assessment of the individual and of the potential hazards in the service users environment
• Attend the weekly Multidisciplinary team meeting
• Report and document incidents as required
• Conduct and oversee physical health care checks and act upon the findings
• Act as a Care Co-ordinator/Lead Practitioner
• Responsible for administration of medications, assessment of side effects, review concordance and clinical effectiveness of medication regime in line with Trust policy
• Undertake Mental Health Nursing Needs Assessments – contributing to Self-Directed Support assessments/packages