Older Persons Community Mental Health Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Communication and Key Working Responsibilities

Acting as a key member of the multi-disciplinary team, the post holder will provide assessment, psychosocial, evidence based interventions using a collaborative, recovery approach and will be skilled at positive risk management. The post holder will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision for other team members, as agreed with the Team Manager, and participate in team and service development and evaluation.

The post holder will provide a high standard of care and treatment for patients and work with other members of the team and other agencies to best meet the patients' health and social needs.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

*Supervisor/Line Manager

*Service Users/Patients

*Carers

*Intensive Dementia Support Service Staff

*Medical staff

*AHP Colleagues

*Inpatient Staff

*CMHT Staff

*Crisis Staff

*Administrative Staff

*Taunton and West Somerset Neighbourhood Teams

*Voluntary and Community Service

*Adult Social Care

Planning and Organising

*To assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment safely and effectively, in partnership with medical team and nurses, service user and carers, using evidence based practice.

*To actively participate in the development of the Neighbourhood Team, supporting new systems and processes and the wider integration of community services.

Responsibilities with Patient Care

*Undertaking care coordination responsibilities with a defined caseload focusing on work with people experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties and other complex needs and difficulties in the community.

*To undertake the assessment of patients referred to the Older Persons' Mental Health Service using a recovery approach and strengths model. Undertake the assessment of risk and nursing needs and contribute to the multi-disciplinary team care plan, memory assessments, under the development and implementation of individual care plans for the client.

*To actively participate in Primary Care Network Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings in Taunton and West Somerset discussing PCN patients, including care home residents

*To provide high quality patient care, working in a flexible way across the community, and day hospital, as required, focussing on the need to support patients and their families/carers.

*To fully comply with the Trust and Local Authority Policies relating to the ICPA/Care Management and act as a key-worker for patients.

*Use interpersonal skills to build a therapeutic relationship with patients.

*To provide support and interventions to patients in their own homes (including care homes) to enable them to remain in the community during crisis periods.

*Providing and receiving highly complex and sensitive information in relation to Safeguarding and Child Protection work and taking appropriate action. This includes identifying and appropriately reporting concerns to Children's Social Care while using communication skills in order to maintain a professional working relationship with parents and significant others in often hostile and highly emotive situations.

*Communicating highly complex, sensitive and emotive information at Child Protection Conferences.

*Identifying adult protection concerns, raising alerts and participating in Safeguarding Adults processes

*To ensure effective, planned handover of care.

*To ensure comprehensive risk assessment of patients and risk management plans are in place and clearly documented in accordance with the Trusts' Policy.

*To ensure that service user and carers are fully involved in planning review of care and provide information, education and support for carers.

*Ensure medication and treatments/injections are prescribed and administered by an appropriately qualified professional, as defined within relevant Trust procedures.

*To ensure a high standard of communication with Community Mental Health Teams, Taunton and West Somerset Neighbourhood Teams, Primary Care Mental Health Practitioners, and GP Practices and work with them in the care planning process as appropriate.

*The post holder will use knowledge of the eligibility criteria for the Team and will make decisions based on this knowledge as to whether referrals should be accepted for the Team or signposted to teams/services including the Assessment Team and Link Working when undertaking the role of duty officer, attending referral meetings and deputising for the Team Manager.

*To work flexible hours to meet the needs of patients and their families, this could include evenings and weekends.

*To adhere to your code of conduct.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• *Current registration with relevant professional body ie NMC/HCPC
• *Relevant degree or equivalent experience
• *Evidence of continuous professional development
• *Experience of supervision and appraisal

Experience

Essential

• *Experience of keyworking
• *Experience of working with families, careers, and significant others

Desirable

• Experience of working in the community

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.

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

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Minehead Community Hospital

Luttrell Way

Minehead

Somerset

TA24 6DF

Employer's website

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