Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse

Kcare Health; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Community Mental Health Nurse to promote recovery-focused practices and provide comprehensive assessments and interventions. The role involves working autonomously within a multi-disciplinary team to enhance the well-being of service users and their families. Candidates should possess extensive knowledge of medications and clinical assessments, ensuring effective treatment plans and support for independence in the community.

Qualifications

• Work as an autonomous practitioner within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Knowledge of physical health conditions and cardiometabolic assessments.

Responsibilities

• Promote values-based practice and recovery-focused approaches.
• Develop treatment plans in partnership with service users.
• Deliver interventions following NICE guidelines.

Skills

Evidence-based interventions

Advocacy

Knowledge of medications

Clinical assessment

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

The role of the Community Mental Health Nurse is to work within their professional scope of practice to actively promote values-based practice when working with others to ensure rights-based and recovery-focused approaches whilst advocating for the service user. Completing comprehensive assessments and personalised care which is dynamic and flexible to support service users and their families/carers. By providing evidence-based interventions, specialist nursing advice and carrying out nursing procedures. Working as a role model within a multi-disciplinary team enhancing the unique value of mental health nursing.

To work as an autonomous practitioner as an active participant of the multi-disciplinary team undertaking specialist nursing assessments in collaboration with the service user and their families/carers and presenting back to the wider MDT.

• To work in partnership with service users and their families/carers to ensure the development of a treatment plan to facilitate their safety, promote their well-being and support their independence and inclusion in the community. This may include working closely with partner agencies.

• To deliver evidence-based interventions following NICE guidelines to promote recovery and relapse prevention in a variety of settings.

• To regularly review care and outcomes, supporting service users to complete clinical outcome measures and monitoring progress and adapting treatment options as required.

• Knowledge of common physical health conditions and their management, and an ability to complete cardiometabolic assessments.

• Extensive knowledge of medications including side effects, management, and the administration of medications within the NMC guidelines and Trusts policies.

• Offer professional consultation to multi-agency services/meetings/forums.

• Contribute to the duty provision within the team.