Community Psychiatric Nurse

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 5 Mental Health Nurse to join the Gainsborough Community Mental Health team. The role covers weekdays, with a focus on delivering high quality, person-centred care, risk assessment, and collaborative planning with service users and carers in a community setting.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team to assess needs, plan interventions, and support recovery goals, while maintaining clinical records and practicing under NMC

Qualifications

• Qualified mental health nurse with current NMC registration.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development (Mentorship module or equivalent).
• Experience in community-based mental health care and risk assessment.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality, person-centred care to patients, families and carers.
• Manage a community caseload with prioritisation and timely interventions.
• Act as autonomous practitioner within the multidisciplinary team.
• Ensure up-to-date care plans, risk assessments and reviews with input from service users/carers.
• Travel independently across the county to deliver services in the community.
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical records and adhere to governance standards.

Skills

Mental health nursing

Clinical assessment

Risk assessment

Communication skills

Travel independently

Education

NMC Registered Nurse

Mentorship module

ENB998 / FLiPS

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated Band 5 NMC registered Mental Health Nurse to Join the Gainsborough Community Mental Health team. The team provide a 5 day a week service, Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. We are a friendly, supportive and proactive team with a culture of delivering a high quality of care. The team works collaboratively with a range of internal and external partners, GPs, Neighbourhood teams, Social workers and Integrated Placed based teams.

The team provide therapeutic interventions for those individuals that experience severe and enduring mental illness. Offering nursing interventions in a wide variety of clinical, therapeutic and social forms with the aim of promoting health, wellbeing, self autonomy and independence.

The Successful candidate will work effectively in the multidisciplinary team and work collaboratively to provide high quality mental health assessments, treatment plans and risk management plans, providing evidence based nursing interventions.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be providing high quality person-centred care to patients, families and carers. You will act as care co-ordinator, undertaking comprehensive evidence-based assessments and have a sound knowledge of Psycho-social interventions, supporting service users to work towards recovery goals, build self-resilience and promote independent living.

Promote engagement and involve service users/ carers in the planning and delivery of compassionate care.

Monitor the impact and effectiveness of nursing care delivered.

Make and maintain accurate record keeping. Provide problem solving skills by identifying solutions in routine clinical issues. Participate in regular clinical and management supervision.

The successful applicant will be required to have a good knowledge of the medication management policy and safely administer medication as prescribed.

The applicant must have a flexible and 'can do' approach, with the ability to work under pressure and adapt to changes, often at short notice. A positive attitude is essential for effective team work and management of the challenges and complexities within our work.

The post holder will also need to have the ability to travel independently in the community to deliver services.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.

Job responsibilities

• Manage a caseload in the community; establishing priorities within that caseload; ensuring effective use of time
• To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning, working towards recovery.
• To act as an autonomous practitioner making decisions about service user care as appropriate with the nursing and wider multi-disciplinary team.
• To ensure up to date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place using clinical outcome measures; involving service users/ carers in the planning and delivery of care in a compassionate and appropriate manner which considers their diverse needs
• Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances.
• Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk.
• Medication management.
• To assess carers and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for carers and families.
• Maintain the welfare and safety of service users and protect them from any form of abuse inaccordance with safeguarding guidance
• Liaison and collaborative working with internal and external agencies, promoting effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making.
• To maintain accurate and timely clinical records.
• To adhere to N.M.C. codes of professional conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation.
• To participate in Clinical Governance activities, including induction, supervision, personal development review, health and safety, risk management and audit.
• Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments including post registration education, training and continuing professional development.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Relevant experience of working with adults with mental health needs. Or clear evidence of substantial experience of working with individuals in crisis and skills that are transferable to both community/in-patient.
• Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illnesses
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse: 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent
• Currently Registered Nurse
• ENB998 / FliPS or equivalent
• Mentorship Module (degree level)
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice

Desirable

• Management training

Skills

Essential

• Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health
• Highly developed clinical reasoning skills
• Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Goverance principles
• Highly developed communication skills
• Delegation whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate
• Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team
• Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes.
• Ability to work independently and collectively
• Ability to travel independently throughout the county

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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).