Senior Community Mental Health Nurse

Job responsibilities

We are looking for nurse practitioners who wants to work and be part of our wider multi-disciplinary team that includes community mental health nurses, psychology, consultant psychiatrist, occupational therapists, peer support (lived experience) workers, health care support workers, employment, housing and financial advisors.

We have opportunities to work in the different areas of our service where you would be responsible for;

Front Door undertaking assessments working alongside the wider team and/or alongside our partners in order to establish the persons goals, needs, risks and strengths to generate a formulation based plan of care with the individual an their support network.

Locality team providing both short and longer term interventions to those who require our service and are taken onto our community caseload working alongside our wider multi-disciplinary team in order to support people in their recovery.

Clinics facilitating the administration and monitoring of antipsychotic medications with a focus on the physical health needs of this population working alongside our wider clinic teams which includes Non-Medical Prescribers and an Advanced Pharmacist.

As part our local mental health alliance network you will have opportunity to attend our weekly meetings which provides an opportunity to look at how best as services we can work together to support individuals who are presenting with multiple needs, risks and complexity. Particularly where engagement may be difficult.

You will be asked within this role to support and contribute to the clinical supervision of junior members of the team and students on placement with the service

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered mental health nurse on NMC Register
• Post registration experience, evidence of formal courses and training at diploma/degree level
• Registered mentor

Desirable

• Leadership qualification
• BSc degree in nursing or equivalent level
• Qualification/training in providing supervision or coaching
• Non- medical prescriber
• Psychological interventions training/qualification - including EMDR, CBT, CBT(p), Family Interventions, CAT, DBT, Structural clinical management
• Phlebotomy training

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of extensive post registration experience with working with adults experiencing mental health related difficulties
• Experience of working with people who have difficulty in engaging with services and have complex mental health needs
• Experience of working in the community and making decisions autonomously
• Experience of integrating care delivery across multi-disciplinary/multi agency teams
• Experience of leading and contributing to CPA/Assessment processes
• Experience and ability to carry out clinical audit

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

Essential

• Knowledge of Mental Health NICE guidelines
• Knowledge of NMC Code of Conduct
• Understanding of the principles of the community transformation programme
• Demonstrate understanding of equality and anti-discriminatory practice
• Knowledge of other relevant local and national documents/drivers that affects practice
• Knowledge of wide range of statutory, independent and third sector service provision for adults with mental health difficulties
• Skills of assessing, planning and evaluating care for people with people health related difficulties
• Skilled in the assessment of clinical risk and developing and community appropriate risk management plans
• Knowledge and experience of holistic assessment of someone's mental health, strengths and needs and appropriate nursing and multi-disciplinary and agency interventions
• Ability to complete and interpret outcome measures
• Ability to integrate the assessment, care planning and review process for service users/carers in a sensitive manner
• A range of skills and knowledge to deliver evidence based interventions
• Knowledge of physical health needs and monitoring requirements for people receiving adult community mental health services
• Skilled in undertaking and interpreting physical health investigations and providing physical health promotion advice
• Knowledge of pharmacological interventions prescribed in mental health
• Skilled in interventions to engage people who may be difficult to engage
• Skilled in interventions to support concordance with treatment interventions
• Knowledge of Mental Health Act, mental capacity act and DOLS
• Range of interpersonal skills and able to maintain good working relationships with service users, carers, and other service providers and agencies
• Ability to manage staff/support workers and to incorporate management and leaderships skills into practice, promoting positivity, supporting innovation, management of performance, delegation and caseload and clinical supervision
• Supervisory skills and knowledge to be able to provide supervision
• Experience of participation in staff appraisals
• Ability to work to agreed quality standards
• Ability to be able to enter into and read information from electronic systems (RIO for example)
• Ability to manage conflict and complexity
• Ability to work flexibly and away from the main base of other nursing staff/colleagues

Desirable

• Skilled in using specific assessments and outcome measures including GAD7, PHQ9, SWEMWBS, Lunserr, GASS
• Non-medical prescriber

Personal attributes

Essential

• Leadership skills, ability to motivate and influence others
• Team player, integrity, negotiation skills, good time management/organisation skills
• Ability to deliver difficult messages in a sensitive manner
• Credibility with others as a clinician and a leader
• Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour
• Possesses values and beliefs that enables others to deliver services effectively
• Passion for working with adults experiencing mental health difficulties
• A flexible attitude

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

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