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Care Home Liaison Community Nurse

Employer
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Kendal
Salary
£29,970 to £36,483 per annum
Closing date
5 Nov 2024
An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 5 Community Nurse to join the South Lakes Care Home Liaison team on a permanent basis for 37.5 hours per week.

The team are looking for a dynamic colleague who shares our passion for ensuring that individuals enjoy great care and health regardless of age and diagnosis.

We are looking for a forward thinking, caring individual who has excellent interpersonal skills and experience of working with mental health difficulties relating to the ageing process and people who have a dementia diagnosis.Experience in a care home setting is desirable.

One of the main roles of this post is to supervise, educate and support staff, manage referrals and to communicate team needs.

This person must be able to work as a member of a strong multi-disciplinary and a very progressive team.

Main duties of the job

Working within the wider Community Mental Health Team primarily as a member of the Care Home Liaison Service to provide person centred, evidenced based care to support the needs of service users who are within the care home setting to ensure that they receive the best quality care and support in line with their changing complex mental health needs.

Working closely with care home staff, OT's, nurses, doctors and the wider MDT to maintain positive health, utilising occupation, formulation, observation and education to provide care plans to support needs., focussing on dementia friendly environments ensuring people have meaningful activity.

To work as a physical health assessment nurse, undertaking ECG's, bloods and physical health observations for shared care medication monitoring.

For further details/Informal visits please contact us on the details provided

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • First Level Registered Nurse RNMH, RMN, or OT
  • Evidence of post-registration training in clinical/ psychological interventions / skills relevant to the post, or willing to undertake training.
  • Proven track record of clinical experience relevant to the post


Knowledge

Essential

  • Awareness and understanding of professional accountability, NMC or HCPC standards and other local and national initiatives.
  • Proven ability to carry out and provide comprehensive written assessments of individuals with complex mental health needs
  • Demonstrate an understanding of effective & appropriate treatment options including a range of evidence based clinical approaches as identified in N.I.C.E. Guidance


Experience

Essential

  • Experience of mentoring teams and achieving successful outcomes
  • Experience of working with people with a range of MH conditions
  • Experience of caring for people with Dementia


Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kirkstone House

Kendal

LA9 7RL

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

351-BAY681-EB-B

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