Community Mental Health Nurse

Job summary

We are a countywide service providing a highly skilled and supportive Home Treatment team. We are the team that builds relationships, problem solves, listens, assesses multiple care needs, direct plans of care, provide signposting, advice, education and support to the person living with a dementia and their families, carers and loved ones.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual who is passionate about working with individuals living with dementia, promoting the concept of living well with dementia. You will need to hold excellent communication skills, be enthusiastic, flexible in your approach and demonstrate an understanding of the complexities involved in this specialist area.

As part of our team, you will be working autonomously and have a varied role allowing plenty of scope to both demonstrate and develop your skills. You will work closely with and be supported by our multi-disciplinary team. Whilst working alongside the immediate team you will also work with our wider health and social care community, in particular our colleagues in general practice, care homes, social care, admiral nurses and our 3rdsector services such as the Alzheimer's Society.

This is a community based role that requires frequent travel within a wide geographical area to support service delivery.

We welcome applicants from both experienced and new qualified nurses.

Main duties of the job

• Take responsibility with supervision and support from a Band 6 Nurse, for the management of an identified caseload, which includes, specialist assessment (within service specification), care planning in conjunction with service user and carer, evaluation of individual treatment plans
• Responsible for participating in the setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing of practice in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.
• Assess patient's individual care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
• Deliver a range of interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care and Pathway guidance including; pharmacological and psychologically informed interventions.
• Complete and contribute, where appropriate to robust risk assessments and risk management plans. Deliver and promote positive risk taking, where appropriate, to improve quality of life and maximise occupational performance/independence.
• Maintainaneffectivereportingsystembyobservingandreportingverballyandin writingon patientconditions.
• Utilise agreed outcome measures to review the effectiveness of interventions, as part of the care planning and evaluation process.
• Support in the provision of formal and informal training of pre/post registration students, staff members, carers and service users.
• Participate in the development of the service to ensure clinical governance processes are actively implemented at team level.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications