Community Practitioner

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurse to join our Team within the Community Treatment Team. This post offers a dynamic and rewarding mix of community and hospital in-reach responsibilities, with a focus on delivering high-quality, recovery-oriented care. In this role, you will provide care coordination and nursing support to service users with complex mental health needs across both community and inpatient settings. You'll play a crucial part in ensuring smooth transitions between hospital and community care, attending Mental Health Act tribunals, preparing professional reports, and working closely with multidisciplinary teams. You will need to be clinically experienced, solution focussed and competent in working with individuals, their families, and carers, in a community setting. You should have a collaborative and enthusiastic approach as well as the passion and commitment to develop and promote recovery-based interventions for adults with mental health related needs. We want you to be committed to ensuring that only the highest standards of care are delivered to our service users, their families and carers. In return one of our top priorities is looking after our staff so that we have a happy and healthy workforce.,

• Deliver high-quality, person-centred mental health care in both community services
• Undertake comprehensive risk assessments and care planning
• Attend Mental Health Act tribunals and professionals' meetings as required
• Prepare formal clinical reports for tribunals
• Work collaboratively with inpatient teams to facilitate discharge planning and continuity of care
• Provide support and input during mental health crises and implement robust risk management plans
• Mentor and support junior staff, students, and colleagues
• Liaise effectively with GPs, social workers, carers, and other service
  
  We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
NHS Employees identified as at risk of compulsory redundancy and those eligible for the NENC Re-Deployment careers hub will receive prior consideration.