Senior Community Mental Health Nurse

NHS; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse to join their dynamic team in West Norfolk. The role focuses on delivering high-quality mental health care through collaborative assessments and patient management. Applicants are expected to possess relevant qualifications and a genuine passion for supporting patients within community settings. The position offers opportunities for supervision and professional development.

Benefits

Comprehensive training programmes

Career progression opportunities

Starting annual leave of 27 days

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with mental health certification.
• Experience in community mental health settings.
• Knowledge of risk assessment practices.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of mental health patients.
• Provide risk assessments and develop care plans.
• Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team.

Skills

Analytical skills

Decision-making skills

Care planning

Risk assessment

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Practice Assessor training

Recognized Leadership training

Higher degree in clinical practice

Job description

We currently have a substantive Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse post within CMHT open to applications from Registered Mental Health Nurses. The team is based in West Norfolk covering surrounding areas. We are a recovery focussed, multi-disciplinary team providing an effective, supportive, and professional service for our Services users and Carers.

You will be a qualified professional with experience of supporting people and their families, preferably in the community.You will demonstrate a strong understanding of your role as a Care Coordinator/Assessor and join our dedicated multidisciplinary team working closely with a range of partners to provide appropriate community interventions for those individuals referred to the team.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge, and experience.

Every individual makes a valuable contribution in the team. We are proud of our staff, and we are looking for people to join us in continuing to develop what the service of West Norfolk CMHT looks like.

You will enjoy plenty of opportunities for joint working, training, and a sound supervision structure.

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidate will have an interest in working within a busy and dynamic Community Mental Health Service. The post holder will undertake the planning/delivery of direct patient care with minimal supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a MDT/multi-agency environment.

• Managing a caseload and the provision of mental health care services to people with mental health care need.
• Provide planned care/risk assessment / screening for patients within their care plan and ongoing evaluation of patients' needs and identify suitability for potential discharge in conjunction with the MDT and via caseload management/supervision.
• Initiate and attend patient centred reviews, case conferences and other meetings as required.
• To advise the Responsible Clinician(s) and/or health and social care professional of any change in the patients' conditions and / or circumstances.
• To work within the MDT and to form working partnerships with other care providers.
• To ensure service users/carer(s) are enabled and empowered to make informed decisions about their care and delivery of that care, working with agencies from within and outside the MDT.

Participate in the duty worker rota (Monday to Friday 10:00am to 16:00pm).

• Undertake the supervision of students that will be undertaking placements within the Team.
• Undertake Management and Clinical Supervision for junior colleagues.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more

Job responsibilities

Within this role you will work with an established and supportive MDT. As with many services we currently use a blended model of virtual and face-to-face working which provides opportunities for flexibility. You will have knowledge, skills and experience of working across the range of complexity and severity in adult mental health.

We will expect the post holder to work collaboratively and flexibly with others to undertake assessments, develop and share psychological formulations and develop treatment plans.

You will be responsible for managing a caseload, assessing and planning treatment for your patients. Working with the patient to plan care and optimise treatment plans. Feeding back to the MDT and working within the team for the best outcome for the patient

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

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Person Specification

Experience

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
• Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
• Experience working in the specific area

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist OR Social Worker with the relevant professional registration
• Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor training (NMC registrants) or Practice Educator (AHP & Social Worker Registrants)
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level ( if professional registration is following a diploma level course)
• Recognised Leadership/Management training
• Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice

Other

• Ability to travel independently

Skills

• Effective analytical and decision-making skills
• Care planning and Risk assessment knowledge and skills
• Able to time manage and reflect on clinical practice

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.

£38,682 to £46,580 a yeargross per annum