Community Mental Health Nurse

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is looking for a skilled Community Mental Health Nurse to improve the well-being of service users. The role involves managing a caseload, conducting assessments, and leading care delivery within a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should have significant experience in mental health and a commitment to high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse required.
• Minimum of 3 years post registration experience.
• Experience supervising junior staff and working with adults with mental health problems.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of service users with complex mental health needs.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments as per National CPA Guidance.
• Provide quality individualised care and promote recovery.

Skills

Knowledge in management of clients on Clozapine & Depot medication

Experience within policy frameworks

Facilitating/planning/supporting groups

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Evidence of continuing professional development

2 years Community Experience

Job description

We are looking for a motivated, skilled, and experienced Nurse to join our Community Mental Health Services in Bromley West ICMP Team. The post is based at Beckenham Beacon Hospital.

The post holder will be committed to improving the mental and physical well being of mental health service users that are accessing care in our team.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for a caseload of service users who have complex and substantial mental health needs. They will work as a member of the MDT ensuring that high quality individualised care is delivered and that this promotes recovery and maximise independence.

The post holder will be responsible for undertaking comprehensive assessment of service users and carers mental health and social care needs, in accordance with National CPA Guidance.

The post holder will be working in a supportive diverse team, where there are opportunities for personal development.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

Clinical Skills

• Working autonomously within the parameters of the role leading and supporting junior staff and wider care team to implement the delivery of quality nursing care, contributing to the physical, psychological, social, recreational and spiritual care in a recovery-focused way through therapeutic engagement and activities, and taking steps to address any issues that arise.
• Leading on and undertaking activities to ensure that the fundamentals of care are met - nutrition, hydration, hygiene, comfort, emotional and social support:
• Co-ordinating and evaluating collaborative patient centred care; getting feedback and improving plans with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
• Providing accurate information about care in an accessible format to patients and their relatives / carers.
• Liaising and working positively with members of the multi- disciplinary team and partner organisations.
• Administering, and monitoring the side-effects of, medication; monitoringservice user compliance.
• Safety: safe custody of medicines, sharps, clinical equipment, report allincidents following trust policy.
• Leading and supporting/teaching junior staff on risk assessment and riskmanagement that involves making decisions based on knowledge of theresearch evidence, knowledge of the individual service user and their social context, knowledge of the service users own experience and clinical judgment.
• Supporting and supervising junior staff to develop the management of care needs through:
• Monitoring of individual service user / patient progress
• Feedback and discussion

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Evidence of continuing professional Development
• 2 years Community Experience

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years post registration
• Experience of supervising junior staff
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of working with adults with mental health problems.
• Experience of liaising with other agencies.

Skills

• Knowledge and skills in the management of clients on Clozapine & Depot medication
• Experience of being able to work within policy frameworks in a regulated patient care setting
• Experience of facilitating /planning /supporting groups in a healthcare setting i.e. health improvement/smoking cessation/activities

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.