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Community Mental Health Nurse

Employer
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Goole
Salary
£27,055 to £32,934 a year pro rata
Closing date
4 Apr 2023

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Profession
Nurse, Community mental health nurse
Grade
Band 5
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
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Are you a Band 5 Nurse or newly qualified band 5 Nurse with Mental Health experience? We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward thinking nurse to join the Goole Community Mental Health Team.

The role will include holding a caseload of clients with a range of mental health issues. You'll work as part of a multidisciplinary professional team formulating care and treatment plans for individuals and work closely with their carers and families.

Your team base will be at Bartholomew House in Goole and cover Goole and surrounding areas but you will also be working remotely from home as part of our new ways of working. You will be part of a supportive team of staff from different disciplines and will have the opportunity to gain skills in specific recognised therapeutic ways of working.

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Nurse to join our team with a professional and caring attitude who is keen to develop further.

Main duties of the job

  • To provide and coordinate patient care, educate patients and the public about various health conditions, and provide advice and emotional support to patients and their families.
  • Utilising physical assessment skills and clinical nursing skills to complete patient assessments including falls, nutrition, pressure ulcers and the deteriorating patient.
  • To maintain, as part of continual professional development, up to date clinical knowledge/skills in this clinical field, using information to effect change in practice and ensuring the effective dissemination of new Personal and People Development knowledge
  • Demonstrate a range of clinical interventions, procedures and practices which are evidence based and relevant to the clinical area


About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good, health and social care Trust that delivers care to communities in Hull, East Yorkshire, Scarborough and Ryedale and Whitby. We deliver safe, effective and integrated health services that improve the physical, mental and social health and wellbeing of our patients and service users.

To find out more about our wide range of services including mental health, learning disabilities, children and young people service, Forensic, Community and Primary Care visit our website humber.nhs.uk/Services

You will join our team of over 3600 colleagues that work together across our wide geography and specialties to change lives every day. We're extremely proud of our Trust community and we know you can expect to receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need from your new team to get you started.

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development to ensure the delivery of high quality, person-centred and compassionate care to patients. We value our staff and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills and competencies to deliver outstanding care.

Job description Job responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached job description and person specfification

Person Specification Essential Criteria Essential
  • Registered Nurse with experience of working in a CMHT
  • An understanding of relevant clinical practice/standards within identified clinical area
  • Basic IT Willingness to undertake and complete preceptorship; facilitating the transition for newly qualified nurse booklet and core competency development programme
  • Appropriate knowledge/experience of working in mental health/learning disability clinical practice areas
  • Understanding of caseload management and care co-ordination responsibilities
  • Able to demonstrate effective inter-personal/communication skills
  • Evidence of good time management skills
  • Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive
  • A broad understanding of relevant policy, legislation drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion
  • An understanding of relevant clinical practice/standards within identified clinical area
Desirable
  • Full understanding of relevant policy, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. NSF, Social Inclusion
  • Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at specialist level of care
  • Evidence of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
  • Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
  • Act as Care Programme Approach (CPA) co-ordinator
Knowledge Essential
  • Basic IT skills
  • An understanding of relevant clinical practice/standards within identified clinical areaUnderstand Care coordination responsibilities
Desirable
  • Full understanding of relevant policy, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. NSF, Social Inclusion
  • Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
Experience Essential
  • Appropriate knowledge/experience of working in mental health/learning disability clinical practice areasle to demonstrate effective inter-personal/communication skills
  • Understanding of caseload management and care co-ordination responsibilitiesct as Care Programme Approach (CPA) co-ordinator
Desirable
  • Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at specialist level of careEvidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
  • Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer
Qualifications Essential
  • Part III or 13 of NMC live register
  • Willingness to undertake mentorship training and responsibilities
Desirable
  • Be on the live register for mentors
  • Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students


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