Community Mental Health Nurse (Bank)

We are seeking Band 5 and Band 6 Mental Health (RMN) Community Nurses who have a keen interest in working in the Community Mental Health Teams in Tower Hamlets. You will have the opportunity to develop your community nursing skills and support the teams to meet key targets and provide excellent care for service users and keep them well in the community.

You will be part of a pool of bank nurses who we will call upon when we need bank nurse cover. You will be provided with an induction to each of the 5 community teams so you are ready to support any of the teams when they need someone, 1. To be an active member of the multi-disciplinary team providing assessment, care and
2. support to adult presenting with mental health issues within the neighbourhood Team
3. To conduct comprehensive and high-quality holistic Health and Social Care (Care Act 2014) assessments including safeguarding when required.
4. To act as a care co-ordinator for a caseload of service users and develop, implement and review individualised recovery focused care and support plans and commissioned packages of care.
5. Use a broad range of nursing knowledge, interventions and skills, to prevent, where possible and avoid hospital admission
6. To conduct carers assessments and offer support and advice to carers and relatives.
7. To promote the needs of service users and offer and provide training and education accordingly.
8. To operate as a Duty Worker on rotation across the team in line with the Mental Health Transformation Project, responding to emergencies, processing referrals and presenting at referrals meetings of your assessment.
9. To support the seamless running of the depot clinic
10. Develop good communication links with patients and carers and joint working with other services across professional and organisational boundaries in order to provide a patient-centred, holistic and seamless service

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.