Community Mental Health Nurse

NHS; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

The North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust is recruiting for a Full-Time Community Mental Health Nurse. The role involves acting as a named nurse for specific clients, conducting assessments, and providing therapeutic interventions. Applicants should have experience in mental health settings and a knowledge of assessment approaches.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Wellness initiatives for staff

Qualifications

• Knowledge of various approaches to mental health assessment is important.
• Experience working therapeutically in community settings is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Act as named nurse for a specific group of clients, conducting assessments and delivering interventions.
• Operate in the screening of referrals and oversee allocation for assessment.

Skills

Knowledge of various approaches to mental health assessment

Experience of working therapeutically in community settings

Job description

Go back North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Community Mental Health Nurse

The closing date is 01 July 2025

The City CMHT Team at The Greenfield Centre are looking to recruit a Full-Time B6 Community Mental Health Nurse.

The successful candidate will:

Act as named nurse for a specific group of clients and provide care under the supervision of the caseload manager. To conduct assessments and to deliver specific therapeutic interventions to this group of clients and to liaise with other professionals regarding progress and outcomes.

Ensure that practice remains abreast of new developments and to develop and maintain standards and implement change in respect of this.

Liaise with other professionals and agencies both statutory and non-statutory and to provide a link between hospital and community and/or primary and secondary services.

Main duties of the job

To operate a duty role in the screening of referrals and allocation for assessment. To provide support and guidance to colleagues over issues of risks and/ or complex clinical presentation To act as named nurse with responsibility for the assessment, planning and delivery of care to the identified patient group.

To act as a Change Agent and actively seek to develop practice.

To develop relationships and strengthen links and liaise between the different care providers.

About us

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 these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme".

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.

Job responsibilities

To act as named nurse for an identified group of patients within the well-being service. To ensure 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 for record-keeping are adhered to. To take an active role in auditing and maintaining standards of record-keeping for this group of patients.

To have responsibility for seeking support and advice from the CPN caseload Manager in respect of issues and difficulties with individual patient care. To attend regular decision-making meetings with the CPN caseload Manager in order to address caseload management issues such as acceptance of assessments, the provision of ongoing care, discharge planning, face-to-face contacts and patient mix.

To assess patient response and provide advice and education to both patient and carers in respect of prescribed medicines

Person Specification

Qualifications

Knowledge

• Knowledge of various approaches to mental health assessment

Experience

• Experience of working therapeutically in community settings

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.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust