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Job overview

The Community Mental Health Rehabilitation Service is a new and developing service that works with people with complex severe and ensuring mental illness (psychotic illnesses) and their families within their local communities.  

The service will provide specialist assessment, treatment and support to stabilise people’s symptoms and help them gain/regain their skills and confidence to live successfully in the community – adopting a team approach to care delivery.

The service will support individuals in their own homes in the community, in supported accommodation and those returning from out of area hospitals.

The service has strong working relationships with other services both internally and externally, striving to make a significant difference in our communities.

We promote regular CPD opportunities both internally and externally and support individuals to develop specialised nursing skills to work in a complex area of mental health care.

Main duties of the job

• Undertake clinical assessments to establish the person’s needs, goals and risks and generate a formulation based care plan with all involved.
• Deliver recovery focussed and evidence based interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to an identified group of people
• Manage a caseload, as named keyworker, of individuals with complex severe and enduring mental illness

• Administer medication, complying with relevant Trust procedures and NMC Guidance.

• Complete and contribute to robust risk assessments and risk management plans - deliver and promote positive risk taking

• Participate in the development of the service - assist in ensuring that the aims and objectives of the service are fulfilled and to identify factors which may inhibit these from being achieved.
• Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and have an ability to build positive multidisciplinary team relationships, and work collaboratively with external agencies, patients and their families/carers.
• Demonstrate good leadership skills

Working for our organisation

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping  your communities and in return for this, we will support you by; 

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.