Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse (CITT) - Windmill House

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Practice

Undertake quality comprehensive mental health and social care needs assessment, including risk assessment for service users.

Be responsible for a specific caseload of service users using the integrated CPA process and acting as care co-ordinator.

Establish with the service user and carer (where appropriate) an agreed care plan, which includes evidence based interventions to address assessed needs, how outcomes will be measured and agreed timescale for input. To arrange such services as are appropriate to the care plan using the care management process.

Regularly evaluate the careplan with the service user and alter as required.

Use the principles and processes with the agreed ICPA policy and to act as care co-ordinator when appropriate.

Undertake specialist assessments, eg Continuing Health Care and Cognitive testing as required.

Record Keeping & Administration

Keep contemporaneous, chronological and accurate mental health records in accordance with Trust policy, professional guidelines and local team procedures.

Collect and input information and appropriate statistics for providing overall information about clinical activity.

Use time effectively and make appropriate use of resources.

Attend business meetings and participate in clinical discussion, presenting complex cases when appropriate.

Clinical Liaison

Provide effective communication both within AWP and with Primary Care, Social Services and a range of other voluntary and statutory organisations.

Sensitively and appropriately communicate with colleagues, service users, carers and relatives.

Operate within the Multi Agency Policy on Safeguarding Adults and participate in the investigation process as appropriate.

Continuing Professional Development and Practice

Maintain and develop professional knowledge skills and expertise, to ensure that practice reflects best practice and remain current and evidence based.

Act in accordance within the guidelines from the NMC.

Work to the policies and procedures of the Trust.

Ensure knowledge of and work to any local team policies and procedures.

Maintain up to date knowledge of relevant medicines, related medication management issues and act in accordance with NMC guidelines.

Take responsibility for post-registration education and practice requirements for continued professional development needs.

Ensure the provision and fully participate in the clinical and management supervision and appraisal process.

Actively participate in the Trusts policy of appraisal and staff development.

Maintain up to date knowledge and skills of appropriate IT systems.

Teaching, Education and Audit

Contribute to the provision of an appropriate learning environment for pre and post registered students and new team members and act as a mentor for nursing students.

Provide formal feedback from training sessions attended.

Identify, initiate and support the development of improvements in the service, including clinical audit.

Management

Provide supervision for other staff members both qualified and unqualified as required by the Team Manager/Senior Practitioner.

Lead on agreed service development initiatives or represent the team.

Other Duties

The postholder may be required to perform duties other than those given in the job description for the post. The particular duties and responsibilities attached to posts may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the duties or the level of responsibilities entailed. Such variations are a common occurrence and would not of themselves justify the re-evaluation of a post. In cases, however, where a permanent and substantial change in the duties and responsibilities of a post occurs, consistent with a higher level of responsibility, then the post would be eligible for re-evaluation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• RMN Qualification

Desirable

• Post qualifying Mentor experience

Experience

Essential

• Experience as mental health nurse B5 or above.

Desirable

• Of practicing in specialist dementia and older people's settings - either inpatient, residential or nursing
• Experience of working in a community mental health service

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Windmill House

Windmill Road

Clevedon

BS21 6UJ

Employer's website

http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)