Community Nurse

NHS; Horsham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in mental health services seeks a dedicated Community Nurse to join their team. This role involves working closely with service users to develop personalized care and recovery plans, ensuring their safety and well-being. The Community Nurse will utilize their expertise in clinical interventions and care planning while collaborating with families and partner agencies. The organization is committed to continuous improvement and offers a supportive environment for professional development. If you're passionate about making a difference in the lives of individuals with complex health needs, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

£2,000 Golden Hello

Relocation Incentive

Continuous Professional Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Registered mental health professional with experience in complex health needs.
• Proficient in developing care plans and implementing clinical interventions.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, and implement care for clients with complex health needs.
• Provide clinical supervision and support to staff and students.
• Engage with service users to promote their health management.

Skills

Clinical Interventions

Care Planning

Mental Health Assessment

Therapeutic Relationship Building

Medication Administration

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Occupational Therapist

Social Worker

Mentorship Course Completion

Job description

The role of Community Nurse is to work in partnership with service users in the designated care group with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives.

They will demonstrate an understanding of clinical interventions relevant to the care group to include education, care plans and discharge planning, working closely with carers, families and partner agencies to facilitate this. The post holder will work at all times to promote the safety and the well being of service users and their families/carers.

The post holder will assess, plan and implement care, and provide specialist nursing advice and carry out specialist nursing procedures. They will provide clinical supervision to staff and students.

This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 5-6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).

Main duties of the job

1. To be a core member of the team, using specialist health assessments.
2. To provide a highly specialised range of clinical interventions relevant to the care group and have knowledge of evidence based models of practice.
3. For MH posts, care will be delivered under the Care Programme Approach and with support from colleagues within the Assessment and Treatment Centres. Taking on the role of care co-ordinator and working within the CPA policy delivering standards set out in the CPA policy.
4. To manage a caseload of clients with complex health needs.
5. To work in partnership with the individual service user and their families and carers as appropriate to ensure the delivery of the care plan, and to enable the development of a plan to facilitate their safety, promote their well being and support their independence and inclusion in the community, by using recognised age appropriate self management tools where applicable. This may include working closely with partner agencies such as voluntary sector agencies, schools and colleges which may be able to more appropriately help the service user complete these tools.

About us

We're a large mental health service providing services in Hampshire and Sussex.

We want patients and staff to recommend our organisation as a place where they would be happy for their friends and family to be treated.

We're an organisation which is committed to improving patient care. We are always trying to improve. We listen to and learn from feedback. We carry out healthcare research and put it into practice. We develop new ways of providing services in partnership with others and help staff develop through education and training. We also believe it's important to learn from when things go wrong and to encourage staff to speak out about anything they are concerned about.

Job responsibilities

1. To develop care plans that meet the needs of the individual and their family/carers as appropriate and that are focused on strengths and are outcome based.
2. To plan and implement client centred individual, family and group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
3. To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
4. To administer and monitor medication prescribed to individual service users, providing information and advice.
5. Maintain the safe custody and control of medication.
6. Ensure safe disposal of clinical waste.
7. Implementation of all nursing policies and procedures.
8. To discuss with the service user and when appropriate, with their carers, their health problems and how they see and understand them, facilitating a process of developing their understanding and maintaining their hope for the future.
9. To promote the empowerment of individual service users to manage their health as much as possible and use Self Directed Support / direct payments as indicated.
10. To work with carers and family members, offering carers assessments and providing support and information to them as indicated. Signposting to third sector agencies to ensure they receive appropriate advice and support. Advising them about the triggers around risk factors relating to the service user, within the boundaries of confidentiality.
11. To assertively engage with service users, striving at all times to develop good therapeutic relationships.

Person Specification

Experience

• Registered Mental health Nurse Occupational Therapist or Social worker with current registration.
• Completion of Mentorship Course.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.

Knowledge/Experience

• Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group.
• Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group.
• Experience of supervising staff.
• Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems.
• Experience of working consultatively with professionals.
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments.
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies.
• Experience of working within the CPA process.
• Understanding of Clinical Governance.
• Previous experience of working in the community.

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.