Community Mental health Nurse

PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to accept applications from candidates who do not currently hold NMC registration or are due to qualify later this year

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About the Role

The Enhanced Outreach Team are looking to recruit to 2 full-time band 5 Community Mental Health Practitioners.

The Successful Candidates Will

• Act as a named nurse / care co-ordinator, to be responsible for the assessment of needs and the planning, delivery and evaluation of care for these patients and to deliver specific interventions according to assessed need.
• Oversee the nursing care process and to provide direction and supervision to junior staff in meeting patient needs.
• Provide supervision and leadership in respect of maintaining and developing standards of practice and implementing change.
• To act as named nurse / care coordinator for a group of patients ensuring 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 of record keeping are adhered to.
• To administer and manage medicines according to policy and local protocol. To assess patient response and provide advice and education to junior staff and both patient and carers in respect of prescribed medicines.
• Provide support and guidance to junior or less experienced staff in the planning and delivery of nursing care for individuals for whom they are named nurse / worker. To provide support to patients within this group at times when the named nurse / worker is unavailable. E.g. periods of annual leave sickness etc. To take an active role in auditing and maintaining standards of record keeping for this group of patients.