Community Mental Health Staff Nurse - Older Adults Community Mental Health Team

NHS National Services Scotland; Dumbarton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in the UK seeks a Community Mental Health Nurse to join the West Dunbartonshire Older Adults Community Mental Health Team. The successful candidate will manage a caseload, providing comprehensive assessments, supporting junior staff, and promoting partnership working with patients and carers. Applicants must hold a live NMC UK pin. This role is essential in supporting older adults with complex mental health needs, requiring compassionate caring behaviour and effective team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Manage a caseload providing holistic assessment for older adults.
• Promote partnership working with patients and carers.
• Supervise the practice of junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive assessments and evaluations.
• Support and supervise junior nursing staff.
• Engage in mentorship and preceptorship responsibilities.

Skills

Compassionate caring behaviours

Management of complex mental health issues

Partnership working

Education

Live NMC UK pin

Job description

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.

The shift pattern for this post is Monday-Thursday, 9am-5pm Friday, 9am – 4.30pm

You need to have a live NMC UK pin in order to be considered for this post.

The West Dunbartonshire Older Adults Community Mental Health Team (OACMHT) are looking to recruit a band 5 Community Mental Health Nurses to their team. As part of the OACMHT, the post holder will be responsible for managing a caseload providing comprehensive and holistic assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of health and social care needs for older adults with a variety of often complex mental health and social care issues.

As an integral member of the multi-disciplinary team the post-holder will work in partnership demonstrating compassionate caring behaviours to fulfill the key functions of the OACMHT. The post-holder is responsible for proactively promoting partnership working with patients, carers and other professionals/ agencies in line with legislative frameworks, agreed standards and clinical policies. This involves working in a variety of home/ near to home community environments.

The post holder is required to undertake duties without direct supervision as well as supporting and supervising work undertaken by more junior members of nursing staff and nursing students. Including providing caseload line management supervision and clinical supervision and undertaking line management responsibilities.

Participating in regular caseload line management supervision and Clinical Supervision are critical aspects of the role.

Supervising the practice of others, undertaking mentorship/ preceptorship responsibilities and contributing to the learning and development of the staff team are important aspects of this role.

Informal contact: Carrianne Cameron – 01389 812032 / [e-mail]

Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service and the Recruitment Process: Information for candidates.

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