Community Mental Health Nurse
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Job summary
The West Lancashire Community Mental Health Team within Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Band 6, Community Mental Health Nurse to join their well established team.
The West Lancashire Community Mental Health Team provides support and intervention to Adults with severe and enduring and complex mental health issues. The team offers a range of management strategies and interventions
Applicants must demonstrate a flexible approach, evolving around the needs of patients, their families and significant others. The role involves working as a team member, with the responsibility of a mixed caseload of differing mental health diagnosis.
We are looking for an enthusiastic person with excellent team working skills, who is keen to develop their knowledge and skills in this area. You should be a competent and motivated practitioner with appropriate demonstrable experience. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing assessment and therapeutic intervention in the community
Main duties of the job
As a Lead Practitioner, you will coordinate care by working closely with people in there own homes or in the community to help them recover from their illness and improve their general quality of life. This role includes assessing patients, providing care/support, developing risk assessments, collaborative care planning, medication management and physical health monitoring, managing patient documents and all other general nursing duties. Along side becoming an advocate for the people in your care, supporting and signposting them, so they can focus on their recovery and helping them live the life they would like to live
There has never been a more exciting time to join our Trust. You will be joining at a time when the implementation and delivery of the Community Transformation Programme is underway which aims to transform the way community mental health services are accessed and delivered
About us
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Details
Date posted
22 November 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£35,392 to £42,618 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
351-CEN862-MT-A
Job locations
Bickerstaffe House, Ormskirk Hospital
Wigan Road
Ormskirk
L39 2AZ
Employer details
Employer name
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Bickerstaffe House, Ormskirk Hospital
Wigan Road
Ormskirk
L39 2AZ
Employer's website
https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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