Community Mental Health Nurse

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Oswestry; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to join the Community Mental Health Services in the North Shropshire Locality. You will work within a dynamic, multidisciplinary team to support adults living with mental illness, collaborating with service users, carers and partner agencies to promote recovery and quality of life.

You will provide specialist assessments, care planning, triage referrals, co-ordinate team work and manage a caseload

Qualifications

• Experience in specialist assessment and care planning.
• Triage and assess referrals in a multi-disciplinary setting.
• Coordinate team activities and care pathways.
• Ability to manage a caseload and prioritise needs.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for managing a complex caseload, including specialist assessment and care planning with service users and carers.
• Participate in setting quality standards, auditing, monitoring and reviewing practice per clinical guidance and policy.
• Deliver interventions within agreed care plans, including pharmacological and psychosocial approaches.
• Contribute to robust risk assessments and promote positive risk taking to improve quality of life.

Skills

Assessment

Care planning

Triage

Caseload management

Job description

Are you a Mental Health Practitioner who wants to make a difference to adults living with a mental illness in Shropshire?

We are seeking a compassionate, skilled, and motivated Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to join our Community Mental Health Services within North Shropshire Locality.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a newly developing, dynamic and supportive multi-disciplinary team delivering an enhanced offer in partnership with colleagues to older adults who are experiencing an functional mental illness. You will work collaboratively with service users, carers, and partner agencies to promote recovery, independence, and quality of life.

Working in a multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with internal and external agencies, you will;

• Provide specialist assessment and care planning in conjunction with wider community services, service users and carers
• Triage and assess referrals received by the service in liaison with multi-disciplinary colleagues
• Co-ordinate the work of the Team
• Take responsibility for managing a caseload.

Main duties of the job

• Take responsibility for the management of a complex caseload, which includes, specialist assessment, care planning in conjunction with service user and carer, evaluation of individual treatment plans
• Responsible for participating in the setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing of practice in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.
• Administer medication (Nurses only), complying with relevant Trust procedures and NMC Guidance
• Assess patient's individual care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
• Deliver a range of interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care and pathway guidance including; pharmacological and psychologically informed interventions.
• Complete and contribute, where appropriate to robust risk assessments and risk management plans. Deliver and promote positive risk taking, where appropriate, to improve quality of life and maximise occupational performance/independence.