Community Mental Health Nurse

How would you like to work in a high performing community mental health team serving rural Mid Bedfordshire, based in the idyllic surroundings of Steppingley Hospital? We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Community Psychiatric Nurse to work as part of a multi-disciplinary working age community mental health team. You will be registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC). We are keen to support a newly qualified nurse through their preceptorship and would offer a Band 5 position, but we would also welcome an experienced nurse to a Band 6 position. The successful candidate will receive on-going support and supervision. Your role will be to ensure the service provided by the team is well organised, evidence based, recovery focused, socially inclusive and person centred, with clear outcomes. In return we offer a friendly team in a beautiful rural setting. For further details / informal visits contact, You will carry out the role of a care coordinator or named nurse under the principles of CPA. This will involve assessments, developing and implementing agreed care plans, reviewing the care provided, identifying risks and working with the patient to establish plans to mitigate risk, while responding to any emerging crises. You will be instrumental in providing psycho-education, mental state monitoring, relapse prevention work and offering advice and guidance on issues that may impact on someone's physical health. As a newly qualified nurse, you would be working under the direct supervision of our Senior Nurse. You will be required to participate in the Duty rota and depot clinic rota, while being responsible for an identified caseload where you will need to ensure a high standard of professionalism and conduct which is consistent with best practice. In the role, you will liaise with Primary Care services, the Voluntary and Private Sector and contribute to providing a Recovery focused model of care. You will play an active role in the discharge of our service users from hospital and will commission health and social care services as required. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations. 1. Clinical Responsibilities

• To attend the triage meetings to process referrals to determine priorities of needs and risks.
• To carry out mental health assessment including assessment of personal strengths and risks.
• To develop recovery plans using a person-centred approach to develop, implement and evaluate needs and strengths-based care plans and risk mitigation plans in partnership with service users, carers and other professionals.
• To liaise with professional e.g. GP at start of treatment, at review and discharge
• To offer health promotion and deliver harm reduction interventions and ensuring access to physical health care and health screening
• To provide one-to-one and group interventions.
• To provide evidence-based interventions in line with guidelines e.g. NICE, CQC in a variety of settings promoting flexibility and choice for service users.
• To deliver prescribing interventions, working in partnership with medical colleagues; monitor and review medication regimes and side effects
• To manage a caseload of service users, depending on complexity.
• To maximize engagement with service users and reduce the risks both to the individual service user and to others affected by their mental health symptoms.
• To facilitate service users and carers to be involved in care and treatment.
• To refer service users to appropriate Health and Social Care services that support their recovery and support them in accessing these services.
• To lead and participate in the clinical activities of the Team such as duty worker and depot clinic.
• To work as an effective member of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring effective communication with other team members and other professionals.
• To attend, lead and contribute to multi-disciplinary and multi-agency clinical meetings.
• To receive and participate in clinical supervision in accordance with Trust policy
2. Administrative
• To maintain electronic health care records, and paper health records if applicable, in accordance with the Trust's Record Keeping Policies,
• To produce high quality letters and reports about service users' care and treatment,
• To use Information Management and Technology effectively and efficiently in accordance with Trust policies.
• To complete incident reporting in accordance with Trust policies.
3. General Responsibilities
• To adhere to Team and Trust Policies and Procedures.
• To attend, lead and contribute to team meetings.
• To work in a flexible and responsive way to meet the changing needs of the service users and demands of the service.
• To promote Equality, Diversity and Rights for service users.
• Work within Trust clinical governance framework.
• Take a lead role in the operational practices of the team for smooth day to day running of the service.
• Develop effective working relationships with other Team members and other agencies.
• Work flexibly within an agreed number of hours to meet the demands of the service from Monday to Sunday 8am to 8pm.
• Work flexibly across operational sites as required and as appropriate.
4. Audit and Research
• To participate in audit of clinical practice and assist with data collection for research.
• To implement audit and research findings to deliver evidence-based practice.
5. Education and Training
• To undertake Trust mandatory training and appropriate training identified through supervision and appraisal.
• To identify own training, educational and development needs through appraisal and participate in a personal development plan to meet identified needs.
• To provide support, guidance and supervision to junior staff as appropriate.
• To provide mentorship to students/volunteers on placement.
• To participate in training within the Team and to other professionals and agencies.
6. Professional Responsibilities
• To maintain registration with your professional body and follow their guidelines for conduct and professional practice.
• To represent the Trust in a professional manner at all times.