Specialist Community Mental Health Nurse PCMHN

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust; Goole; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in mental health seeks a Specialist Community Mental Health Nurse in Goole, dedicated to promoting mental well-being and recovery. As a Band 6 nurse, you'll work part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing essential support and interventions to service users. Candidates should be Registered Mental Health Nurses with experience in community settings and leadership abilities. This role offers opportunities for professional development in a supportive work environment with a commitment to staff development and diversity.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Supportive team culture

Inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse on NMC live register.
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students.
• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application.

Responsibilities

• Provide signposting, support, and short-term interventions for mental health recovery.
• Establish therapeutic relationships with service users and their families.
• Provide clinical leadership within the team.

Skills

Effective inter-personal skills

Leadership and management experience

Mentoring and supervising

IT skills for electronic patient record

Ability to transport self effectively

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse on NMC live register

Leadership training/qualification

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Specialist Community Mental Health Nurse PCMHN

Are you passionate about supporting adults to have good mental health? Are you a recovery focused and creative mental health nurse whowants to work in a supportive multi-disciplinary team? An opportunity has become available to work within the Goole Cygnet Primary Care Mental Health Network team as aBand 6 Specialist Community Mental Health Nurse.

As an employer Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are dedicated to being a best practice example of inter-professional working in mental health. As part of this we encourage and provide opportunities for continued professional development and regular supervision to help develop nursing skills, knowledge and experience.

As part of the role you will need the means to effectively transport yourself between multiple addresses/venues on a daily basis including transporting, clients, equipment & clinical stock required for treatment.

Main duties of the job

As a Primary Care Mental Health key-worker you will provide signposting, support and short-term interventions to promote mental health recovery. Establishing therapeutic relationships with service users and their family / carers. Provide clinical leadership within the team, ensuring high standards of care and supporting colleagues with complex cases.

Act as a role model for best practice and contribute to service development initiatives.

Offer guidance and supervision to team members and students, fostering a positive learning environment.

Support effective decision-making and problem-solving within the team to maintain safe, responsive care delivery.

Complete initial triage and assessment of needs including:

• Signposting / referring clients to the most appropriate service to meet their needs.
• Complete risk assessment and care planning documentation
• Develop and deliver recovery focused care.
• Provide information and psycho education surrounding mental health conditions and medication.
• Uphold legal frameworks which underpin service delivery.
• Assess risks, the management of risks and effectiveness of interventions.
• Develop good working relationships with neighbouring teams to enable effective co-working and responsive transfers of care if necessary.
• Monitoring of medication.
• Offer leadership and support to the team in the absence of the Clinical lead day to day and in meetings.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work and we are happy to discuss this further.

Job responsibilities

For further information for this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifiactions & Knowledge

• Registered Mental Health Nurse on NMC live register
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students
• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. The Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act.
• IT skills for learning systems required for role e.g. electronic patient record, clinical stock ordering systems, incident reporting systems.
• oLeadership training/qualification/experience.
• oEvidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts within own area of work/responsibility.

Experience

• Previous community based experience or band 6 experience transferrable to community setting Experience of leading on complex care delivery
• Experience of leading on care delivery
• Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
• Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice
• Ability to effectively Chair meetings
• Experience of SystmOne

Skills and Competencies

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring
• Ability to effectively transport self between multiple addresses/venues on a daily basis including transporting, clients, equipment & clinical stock required for treatment.
• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change
• Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures to effectively lead and manage others

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.

Goole Cygnet Primary Care Mental Health Network Bartholomew House

Goole Cygnet Primary Care Mental Health Network Bartholomew House