Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Community Mental Health Nurse
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The Bournemouth Older Persons Community Mental Health Team
The Bournemouth Older Persons Community Mental Health Team are looking for a experienced Community Mental Health Nurse to join the team.
Role Overview
As a Mental Health Nurse, you will provide a comprehensive accessible and responsive mental health service to adults and their families within a defined locality. This is primarily a care-coordination role, where you will be responsible for supporting patients on their journey of recovery. You will be a committed, dynamic, motivated professional with excellent communication, organisational skills and the ability to prioritise your work. You should have relevant and recent experience of working in a mental health environment and be able to apply the philosophies of engagement and recovery in your work with patients, their carers and their family.
Team and Environment
You will work as part of a well-established supportive team made up of a Psychiatrist, Nurses, Psychologists, a Social Worker, Administration and a Support Time Recovery Worker. We offer peer support led by psychology, and regular management and clinical supervision to enable you to feel safe in your practice whilst further developing your skills.
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Responsibilities
- To provide a comprehensive accessible and responsive mental health service to Older adults and their families within a defined locality.
- To support the team leader and the locality service manager in implementation of the Dorset Healthcare Mental Health Strategy.
- To continually develop clinical, team and service evaluation and delivery of service.
- To contribute to effective multi-disciplinary working within the community mental health service and to build up effective liaison with community, primary, and other secondary and tertiary services/agencies within the locality to provide holistic care based on the individual’s need and service development.
About Dorset HealthCare
At Dorset HealthCare we’re on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We’re a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.
- We do things differently here – it’s one of the reasons the CQC rated us ‘outstanding’ in 2019.
- It’s also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference.
- Whether you’re looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.
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Working with us you’ll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don’t know. And you’ll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion, and expertise in all we do.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Kimberley Duffy
Job title: Team Leader
Email address: kimberley.duffy@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01202 705596
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