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Registered Mental Health Nurse
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
232-CMT-6215216
Employer
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Lyme Brook Centre
Town
Newcastle
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
04/07/2024 23:59

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Community Mental Health Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

The County Older Person's Team are looking recruit a full time, Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse.

The post holder is responsible for the delivery of care and for the supervision of others who are carrying out all aspects of the caring process.  The post-holder will assist in setting and maintaining standards of care, will participate in maintaining effective management of the team and will also maintain effective integration with the multi-disciplinary team and assist with the facilitation of a collaborative approach to patient focussed care. 

Main duties of the job

  • To act as named mental health Nurse/care co-ordinator with responsibility for the assessment, planning and delivery of care to the identified patient group.
  • To act as a Change Agent and actively seek to develop practice
  • To develop relationships and strengthen links and liaise between the different care providers.
  • To take part in the duty professional rota.

Working for our organisation

Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it.

Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.

As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust’s Values.  These are:

Proud to CARE:

Compassionate

Caring with compassion, it’s about how we listen, what we say, what we do.

Approachable

Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open

Responsible

Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions

Excellent

Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To act as a care co-ordinator for an identified group of patients within the overall community team caseload. 

To ensure that appropriate interventions are planned and delivered according to assessed need. 

To promote a positive, service user relationship and to engage with carers/relatives as appropriate. 

To have responsibility for documenting the plans of care and ensuring that plans remain current and that standards for record-keeping are adhered to. 

To take an active role in auditing and maintaining standards of record-keeping for this group of patients. To ensure the client has a signed copy of their agreed care plan.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Mental Health Nurse
  • Experience in Adult and/or Older Adult Mental Health.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working therapeutically in community settings
  • Experience of working with a range of statutory, non-statutory agencies

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge/awareness of relevant legislation and guidance including common law issues, the Mental Health Act (1983), Community Care Act (1990), Human Rights Act (1998), National Service Framework and Clinical Governance
  • Understanding of psychosocial interventions

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Nicola Mayo
Job title
Team Lead
Email address
[email protected]
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