Community Mental Health Nurse
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and compassionate Registered Mental Health Nurse to join Holderness Mental Health Team. As a Band 5 Community Mental Health Nurse, you will play a key role in delivering high quality, recovery focused care to adults experiencing complex mental health needs across community settings.
Working as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, you will develop and deliver person-centred care plans, coordinate care and provide evidence-based interventions that promote recovery, independence and social inclusion. You will work closely with service users, carers, primary care colleagues and partner agencies to ensure holistic and effective care is provided.
This is an excellent opportunity for a nurse who is passionate about community mental health and wishes to develop their clinical skills within a service committed to delivering compassionate, person-centred care.
You will receive regular supervision, access to ongoing professional development opportunities and support from an experienced multidisciplinary team If you are committed to making a positive difference in people's lives and share our values of Caring, Learning and Growing, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Manage a defined caseload of adults with complex health needs, providing assessment, treatment, care coordination and ongoing review. Formulate care plans and evaluate outcomes in partnership with service users and carers. Deliver evidence-based, recovery-focused interventions that promote independence, wellbeing and social inclusion. Assess, manager and respond appropriately to clinical risk, safeguarding concerns and crisis situations to ensure the safety of service users, carers and others.
About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started. We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination.
We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support. From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK. Find out more and search live jobs.
Job responsibilities
For further details with regards to this vacancy please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications and
Knowledge · Essential
Part III or 13 of NMC live register Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area Basic IT skills
Desirable
Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts within own area of work/responsibility
Experience · Essential
Evidence of development of specialist practice nursing skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
Desirable
Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held Development of specialist/advanced level of practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
Skills · Essential
Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring Able to demonstrate effective communication skills Good time management skills Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
Desirable
Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change
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).
