Senior Community Mental Health Nurse

Our friendly and dynamic Home Treatment Team is seeking a skilled and compassionate Registered Mental Health Nurses. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a supportive, multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality, person-centred care in the community. You'll work across both the Home Treatment and First Response Services, responding to individuals in acute mental health crisis and providing care and support that helps people remain at home and avoid unnecessary hospital admission. We recognise that staff wellbeing is essential in delivering compassionate care. You'll be supported by a close-knit and understanding team that values collaboration, respect and professional growth. This role will involve flexible working across a 24-hour shift rota (days and night shifts) in a 7 day a week service, As a Senior Community Mental Health Nurse, you will play a key role within our Urgent Care Pathway, offering rapid response assessments and home treatment as an alternative to hospital admission. You will be responsible for:

• Holistic Assessments: Conduct thorough psychosocial and risk assessments in a range of settings including clients' homes, acute hospitals and community venues.
• Care Planning: Develop and implement safe, creative and evidence-based care plans tailored to the individual's recovery needs.
• Crisis Intervention: Deliver short-term therapeutic interventions such as emotional skills work, behavioural activation and psychoeducation.
• Medication Management: Administer medication safely within the community and monitor for side effects.
• Collaborative Working: Work closely with families, carers and professionals across health and social care to ensure continuity of care.
• Supervision and Support: Provide leadership and supervision to Band 5 staff, students and support workers.
• Service Development: Contribute to quality improvement initiatives and the ongoing development of urgent care services in Somerset.
  
  You will need excellent interpersonal and clinical skills, a flexible approach to shift work, and a commitment to providing compassionate, person-centred care.
  
  As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, fantastic pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.
The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London. There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will to experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan -- there is truly something for everyone!