Community Mental Health Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

As part of the Community Mental Health Hub, you will contribute to the day to day clinical running of the service while developing your skills and confidence as a community mental health nurse.

You will take part in duty days, supporting timely responses to service users, carers and professionals. This includes responding to queries, identifying risk, escalating concerns appropriately and working with senior staff to coordinate care.

You will gain experience in triage work, learning how referrals are received, reviewed and processed. This will include contributing to brief assessments, gathering key information, supporting risk identification, and assisting with signposting, onward referral or allocation, with guidance from senior clinicians.

You will attend Therapies Hub meetings and contribute to discussions where referrals are being considered for psychological interventions. This includes presenting relevant information, highlighting risk, and developing an understanding of thresholds and pathways.

You will support physical health monitoring through assessment and follow up, including basic observations, health promotion and healthy lifestyle advice, working within your competencies and with supervision.

You will hold a defined caseload appropriate to your level of experience, providing ongoing support, reviews and interventions under supervision, and developing skills in managing workload, prioritisation and documentation.

You will contribute to service quality and improvement activity, including supporting audits, data collection and KPI related work, and developing an understanding of how community services measure safety, quality and performance.

You will work closely with multidisciplinary colleagues and partner services, and engage in regular supervision, reflective practice and training to support your development within the Community Mental Health Hub.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Current Professional Qualification in mental health nursing Registration must be live with professional body NMC
• Evidence of post registration training and CPD.

Desirable

• Training in Psychosocial Interventions (DBT skills, Motivational Interviewing Skills, CBT skills); Other relevant training, e.g. substance misuse, group facilitation skills or experience
• Physical Health Assessment Skills Venepuncture ECG and interpretation skills

Experience

Essential

• Experience working in Mental Health or substance misuse setting in a ward/community based setting
• Experience in undertaking Risk Assessment and Risk Management

Desirable

• Work with clients with acute/severe and enduring mental health problems who are homeless/rootless
• Work with people experiencing mental health crisis.

Skills and knowledge

Essential

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including report writing and presentations / IT skills.
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate a comprehensive care package for the identified client group, using a wide range of resources.
• Able to develop a comprehensive programme of intervention and support for the identified client group and their families
• Can demonstrate understanding of the needs of diverse groups, e.g. residents of inner city; black and minority ethnic groups, and skills in engaging with them.
• Able to build constructive relationships with clients and carers using warmth and empathy, using good communication skills
• Skills in psychosocial interventions.
• Knowledge of current legislation and guidance applicable to this client group

Desirable

• Ability to motivate others, use initiative and manage change. Confident in autonomous working.
• Dual diagnosis/substance misuse
• Basic counselling and group work skills

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

7a Woodfield Road

London

W9 2NW

Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)