Community Mental Health Nurse

Job summary

The Sutherland Centre are looking to recruit a full time B6 Community Mental Health Nurse.

The successful candidate will:

• Act as named nurse for a specific group of clients and provide care under the supervision of the caseload manager. To conduct assessments and to deliver specific therapeutic interventions to this group of clients and to liaise with other professionals regarding progress and outcomes.
• Ensure that practice remains abreast of new developments and to develop and maintain standards and implement change in respect of this.
• Liaise with other professionals and agencies both statutory and non-statutory and to provide a link between hospital and community and/or primary and secondary services.

Main duties of the job

To act as named nurse for an identified group of patients within the well-being service. To ensure that appropriate interventions are planned and delivered according to assessed need. To promote a positive nurse patient relationship and to engage with carers/relatives as appropriate. To have responsibility for documenting the plans of care and ensuring that plans remain current and that standards for record-keeping are adhered to. To take an active role in auditing and maintaining standards of record-keeping for this group of patients.

To have responsibility for seeking support and advice from the CPN caseload Manager in respect of issues and difficulties with individual patient care. To attend regular decision-making meetings with the CPN caseload Manager in order to address caseload management issues such as acceptance of assessments, the provision of ongoing care, discharge planning, face-to-face contacts and patient mix.

To assess patient response and provide advice and education to both patient and carers in respect of prescribed medicines.

To provide support to other patients within the Well-being service at times when the names nurse/worker is unavailable e.g. periods of annual leave, sickness, etc.

About us

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme".

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

Employer details

Employer name

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Address

The Sutherland Centre

Stoke-on-Trent

ST3 4LR

Employer's website

https://www.combined.nhs.uk/working-together/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Address

The Sutherland Centre

Stoke-on-Trent

ST3 4LR

Employer's website

https://www.combined.nhs.uk/working-together/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)

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