Community Mental health Nurse

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust; Hempstalls; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Wellbeing support

Job summary

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is recruiting two full-time Band 5 Community Mental Health Practitioners to work within the Enhanced Outreach Team. The post involves acting as named nurse/care coordinator, assessing needs, planning, delivering and evaluating care, and supervising junior staff.

Responsibilities include medicines administration, documenting care plans, and providing leadership to maintain high standards.

Qualifications

• Assess needs and plan, deliver and evaluate care for patients.
• Oversee nursing care process and supervise junior staff.
• Administer medicines per policy and provide education to staff, patients and carers.
• Document plans of care and maintain up-to-date records.
• Promote positive nurse-patient relationships and engage carers as appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Act as named nurse/care coordinator for assigned patients.
• Provide direction and supervision to junior staff.
• Assist in auditing and maintaining records quality.

Skills

Care coordination

Nursing assessment

Leadership

Medicines management

Education

Nursing degree

NMC registration

Job description

The Enhanced Outreach Team are looking to recruit to 2 full-time band 5 Community Mental Health Practitioners.

The successful candidates will:

Act as a named nurse / care co-ordinator, to be responsible for the assessment of needs and the planning, delivery and evaluation of care for these patients and to deliver specific interventions according to assessed need.

Oversee the nursing care process and to provide direction and supervision to junior staff in meeting patient needs.

Provide supervision and leadership in respect of maintaining and developing standards of practice and implementing change., To act as named nurse / care coordinator for a group of patients ensuring that appropriate interventions are planned and delivered according to assessed need. To promote a positive nurse patient relationship and to engage with carers / relatives as appropriate. To have responsibility for documenting the plans of care and ensuring that plans remain current and that standards of record keeping are adhered to.

To administer and manage medicines according to policy and local protocol. To assess patient response and provide advice and education to junior staff and both patient and carers in respect of prescribed medicines.

Provide support and guidance to junior or less experienced staff in the planning and delivery of nursing care for individuals for whom they are named nurse / worker. To provide support to patients within this group at times when the named nurse / worker is unavailable. E.g. periods of annual leave sickness etc. To take an active role in auditing and maintaining standards of record keeping for this group of patients.

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving this/ this??, result, ) ???? ,

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.