OPCMHT Mental Health Nurse / Key Worker | Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

To provide effective and timely care within a multidisciplinary team setting for Older People who present with functional and/or organic mental health problems.

To assess care needs, devise care plans based on dialog+, carry out risk assessment and implement and evaluate these in collaboration with individual service users and also their carers, where appropriate

To support and mentor less experienced staff, support workers and teach students from related professional backgrounds who are on placement with the CMHT.

To undertake duties designed to extend clinical and managerial expertise as delegated by the Deputy CMHT manager when required.

Carry overall responsibility for the management of a caseload in the role of Key worker /care manager, as defined by the Dialog+ approach and other government and local directives. Ensure that the service of the CMHT i.e. nursing, social care, occupational therapy and psychology is carried out effectively within a multidisciplinary framework and in collaboration with other agencies.

Maintain contact with service users on their caseload during periods of admission, including attendance at MDT meetings. To take lead in the planning and implementation of the client's re-integration back into the community.

Provide service users and their carers with a service that is culturally sensitive and gives due consideration to any special needs

Provide therapeutic interventions by means of assessment and ongoing treatment in various settings. Design care programmes in line with risk assessment and psychosocial needs. In consultation with MDT colleagues discharge service users in line with Trust and CMHT policies and procedures

Participate in the Duty System as the Duty Officer or 'Backup' providing a Direct Access mental health service to the community. Be responsible for the screening of all new referrals, arrange assessments, provide advice and refer to other agencies as appropriate.
Our purpose

We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and we encourage care services to improve.
Our role

• We register care providers.


• We monitor, inspect and rate services.


• We take action to protect people who use services.


• We speak with our independent voice, publishing our views on major quality issues in health and social care.


Throughout our work we:

• Involve the public and people who receive care


• Work with other organisations and public groups.

Our values:

• Excellence - being a high-performing organisation


• Caring - treating everyone with dignity and respect


• Integrity - doing the right thing


• Teamwork - learning from each other to be the best we can


The post holder is required to undertake the duties and responsibilities of the post with due regard to confidentiality and the Trust policies on Data Protection, Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Smoking

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the duties and not as an inflexible specification. This Job Description may, in consultation with the post holder, be amended from time to time to take into account new developments and any changes in working arrangements

The post holder may be required to work at alternative locations within the Mental Health Services of this Trust.

The post holder will work effectively under Service Integration with Social Care colleagues employed by the Local Authority, who will be employed under different terms and conditions of employment.