Community Mental Health Nurse

Job summary

To participate in the provision of a high quality care. This will involve assessing, supporting, monitoring of the service users who are experiencing mental health issues.

It will involve you're working in a variety of community settings; it will include you liaising and co working with other services both statutory and non statutory.

It will involve you're working with carers and families of service users and will involve seeing service users families and carers in their own homes, clinics or in other environments such as hostels, supported living and residential settings.

Main duties of the job

• To work as a Care-coordinator or Lead Professional within the team in the planning, delivery, co-ordination and evaluation of assessments and formulation
• To work closely and collaboratively with other members of the team including Therapist's, Medical professionals, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals and support staff.
• To carry out complex person-centred assessments.
• To ensure that all care offered is evidence based and all interventions take into account specific physical, cultural, psychological and spiritual needs of service users.
• To assess care needs, devise care programmes, packages of care including Risk assessment, Dialog+ and implement and evaluate these in collaboration with individual service users and their carers.
• To support and mentor less experienced staff, support workers and students from related professional backgrounds who are on placement within the team.
• To undertake duties designed to extend clinical and managerial expertise as delegated by the Team Manager when required.
• To undertake comprehensive outcome monitoring of all referrals.

About us

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.

We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.

We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:

https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/documents/clinical-and-organisational-strategy-2023-to-2028/

To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:

https://workwithrdash.co.uk/

We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:

https://youtu.be/WMJSkLoTk4Q

The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:

https://www.nhsemployers.org/publications/tchandbook