Job summary
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse to join our dynamic and supportive Locality Mental Health Team. The post-holder will provide high-quality, evidence-based care to adults with complex and severe mental health needs, working both autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
As a key member of the multidisciplinary team, you will provide autonomous clinical assessment, risk management, and evidence-based interventions, working collaboratively with service users, carers, and partner agencies. You will hold a defined caseload and act as a lead professional ensuring personalised, holistic, and trauma-informed care planning.
The role requires strong clinical judgement, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work flexibly in a fast-paced environment. You will contribute to the team's duty function, undertake initial assessments, and support safe and effective care planning. You will also play an active role in service development, quality improvement, and promoting a culture of learning and reflective practice.
This post is ideal for a registered nurse who is passionate about community mental health, committed to empowering service users, and ready to take the next step in their professional development.
Main duties of the job
Provide comprehensive mental health assessments, formulation, and evidence-based interventions for adults with complex and severe mental health needs.
Act as a lead professional for an allocated caseload, ensuring high-quality, person-centred care.
Undertake ongoing risk assessment and risk management, including the development and review of crisis and contingency plans.
Deliver a range of therapeutic interventions, both individually and in groups, in accordance with clinical guidelines and service pathways.
Administer medications in the community, including intramuscular injections, as per treatment plans and prescriptions.
Participate in the team's duty rota, responding to urgent calls from patients, carers and partner agencies.
Work collaboratively with the wider multidisciplinary team, primary care, social care, voluntary sector partners, and carers to ensure coordinated and holistic care.
Maintain accurate, timely, and professional clinical documentation in line with Trust policies and regulatory standards.
Contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives, and the promotion of safe, recovery-focused, and trauma-informed practice.
Provide supervision, mentorship, and support to junior staff, students, and colleagues as required.
Deputise for the Team Manager as necessary.
Uphold professional standards, safeguarding responsibilities, and adherence to Trust policies, clinical governance, and NMC requirements.
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 description
Job responsibilities
To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.
To work flexibly across a 7-day-a-week service.
To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate.
To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of nursing members of the Community Mental Health Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.
To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements
To act as care co-ordinator under the Care Programme Approach, ensuring up to date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place.
Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour.
Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk.
To assess carers and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for cares and families.
Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
Enable individuals to develop independent living skills and live in the community.
To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making, both within the Community Mental Health Team and with external agencies.
To maintain accurate and timely clinical records and to co-ordinate and monitor those of the team.
To adhere to N.M.C. codes of professional conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation.
To develop clinical practice having due regard to guidelines of the N.S.F. for Older People, N.S.F for Mental Health, N.I.C.E. and N.I.M.H.E.
To demonstrate empowering leadership skills within the Community Mental Health Team and seek opportunities in local and national area as to promote and develop the profession.
To participate in Clinical Governance activities, including: induction, supervision, personal development review, health and safety, risk management and audit.
To undertake specific project work or any other duties as negotiated with the Community Mental Health Team Co-ordinator.
To act as lead professionals within the Community Mental Health Team.
Supervise health and social care staff in the support and monitoring of clients programmes of care managed within the team.
Develop effective and supportive links with other health and social care staff. To create networks that improve the pathway of care for clients referred to the Community Team.
Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments including post registration education, training and continuing professional development
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.
To work flexibly across a 7-day-a-week service.
To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate.
To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of nursing members of the Community Mental Health Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.
To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements
To act as care co-ordinator under the Care Programme Approach, ensuring up to date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place.
Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour.
Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk.
To assess carers and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for cares and families.
Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
Enable individuals to develop independent living skills and live in the community.
To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making, both within the Community Mental Health Team and with external agencies.
To maintain accurate and timely clinical records and to co-ordinate and monitor those of the team.
To adhere to N.M.C. codes of professional conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation.
To develop clinical practice having due regard to guidelines of the N.S.F. for Older People, N.S.F for Mental Health, N.I.C.E. and N.I.M.H.E.
To demonstrate empowering leadership skills within the Community Mental Health Team and seek opportunities in local and national area as to promote and develop the profession.
To participate in Clinical Governance activities, including: induction, supervision, personal development review, health and safety, risk management and audit.
To undertake specific project work or any other duties as negotiated with the Community Mental Health Team Co-ordinator.
To act as lead professionals within the Community Mental Health Team.
Supervise health and social care staff in the support and monitoring of clients programmes of care managed within the team.
Develop effective and supportive links with other health and social care staff. To create networks that improve the pathway of care for clients referred to the Community Team.
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
Skills and Competences
Essential
- Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health.
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Goverance principles.
- Delegation whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate
- Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.
- Ability to work independently and collectively.
- Highly developed clinical reasoning skills
- Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes
- Highly developed communication skills.
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN or RNLD or RN: 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent.
- Currently Registered Nurse
- ENB998 / FliPS or equivalent
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice
- Mentorship Module (degree level)
Desirable
Special Requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel independently across the county
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
Skills and Competences
Essential
- Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health.
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Goverance principles.
- Delegation whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate
- Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.
- Ability to work independently and collectively.
- Highly developed clinical reasoning skills
- Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes
- Highly developed communication skills.
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN or RNLD or RN: 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent.
- Currently Registered Nurse
- ENB998 / FliPS or equivalent
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice
- Mentorship Module (degree level)
Desirable
Special Requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel independently across the county
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
