Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has become available to work within the Community Enhanced rehabilitation Team as a Band 6 nurse. Here at CERT we have cohesive and fun team who make coming to work a pleasure whilst ensuring the highest standards of care are at the heart of everything we do.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic team player, to join this growing and developing team. CERT is a psychology led, community mental health rehabilitation team within the Enhanced Rehabilitation and Recovery Pathway. Comprising a multidisciplinary team; CERT provides mental health rehabilitation focused interventions in the community for adults for adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. We work within a recovery approach, undertaking collaborative interventions with service users, families and wider networks in the community. CERT offers service users and carers a greater choice over their care and recovery, ensuring intervention are deliver in the last restrictive setting. The team will be able to offer you on-going CPD opportunities, reflective practice space within a fun and supportive team environment.

Please note a driving is essential for this post

Willows is currently a temporary base for CERT, the role involves blended working/working from home.

For further information or to discuss this post please contact

Contact Details:Coral Carter-Marsh, coral.carter-marsh1@nhs.net, 0116 2255820

Main duties of the job

This post will include assessing new people referred to our service and working with an allocated caseload of existing service users providing specialised, enhanced rehabilitation and recovery interventions and liaising with other professionals to coordinate their care. You will need to demonstrate effective assessment, planning, monitoring and and evaluation of care given to service users. You will need to be able to safely administer medication in a community setting, engage in medicines management and physical health monitoring. You will undertake the role of lead clinician for service users who are under a Community Treatment Order.

You will need to demonstrate excellent communication skills and be able to provide clear information around health promotion and psychoeducation to people who use our services as well as providing educational input and supervision to nursing students and junior colleagues. You will participate in effective clinical leadership of the team.

You will need to be able to work flexibly and collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team and other agencies. You will need to be able to assess risk dynamically and work to safeguard our clients at all times.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

The Willows, 1 Cordelia Close

,Leicester,LE5 0LE

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE5 0LE

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

The Willows, 1 Cordelia Close

,Leicester,LE5 0LE

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE5 0LE

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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