Registered Mental Health Nurse / Care Coordinator

North London Nhs Foundation Trust; Enfield; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust in Enfield, United Kingdom, is seeking an experienced mental health nurse for the role of Registered Mental Health Nurse / Care Coordinator. The post involves multidisciplinary teamwork, fast-paced decision making, and close work with service users and families to support assessment and treatment.

The role focuses on medication management, caseload management, and supervising staff, with an emphasis on collaborative care planning and risk management in a

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with a mental health qualification and post-qualification experience.
• Experience of managing complex caseloads and coordinating care.
• Knowledge of risk assessment and care planning processes.

Responsibilities

• Managing a complex caseload.
• Individual and group interventions to support assessment and treatment.
• Completing cognitive assessments.
• Physical health monitoring.

Skills

Care coordination

Risk assessment

Group work

Assessment

Education

Dip/BSc Mental Health Nursing

Tools

Dialog+

Job description

Job summary
Full Time RMN / Care Coordinator
We are looking to recruit an experienced mental health nurse to our small busy team.
The role will suit you if you enjoy

• multidisciplinary working
• fast pace work and taking initiative
• working closely with service users and their families
• collaborative care planning and risk management

Please note this role is hospital site based - no regular remote working
Main duties of the job
The role includes:

• Medication Management
• Caseload Management and Care Coordination
• Individual and group work to support assessment and treatment
• Supervising support staff and students

About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Job responsibilities

• Managing a complex caseload
• Individual and group interventions to support assessment and treatment
• Completing cognitive assessments
• Physical health monitoring

Qualifications

• oDip/BSc (Hons) in Mental Health Nursing

Qualifications Essential

• oCurrently Registered with appropriate professional body
• Evidence of further relevant post qualification training
• Practice Assessor training
• oPost registration experience as a Mental Health nurse preferably in a mental health setting working with older adults with functional and organic mental health needs.
• Experience of working with Older Adults
• Experience of carrying out assessments independently including risk assessment and mental capacity assessment
• Experience of Care Coordination
• Experience of carrying out individual work and group work
• oAbility to work independently and autonomously.
• Developing care plans with individuals and carers
• Experience of using Dialog + and co-producing care plans
• oAbility to undertake comprehensive risk assessment and implement risk management plans.
• oAbility to network, collaborate and liaise with other agencies.
• oEffective Physical health monitoring skills and knowledge of when to escape concerns
• oHighly committed to teamwork
• oAbility to appreciate and apply continuous improvement strategies in practice.
• Motivated to learn to enhance knowledge and continuously develop skills.

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Registered Mental Health Nurse / Care Coordinator • ENFIELD, United Kingdom