Community Psychiatric Nurse/Mental Health Practitioner
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner to join the Ashfield LMHT as part of the community transformation programme, in line with the longer-term plan for community services. The community transformation includes opportunities to develop skills within SMI pathways (mood affective, complex psychosis, community rehabilitation and non-psychosis including the Cluster 8 and Trauma Pathway).
We are particularly interested in hearing from people with skills and experience, working with adults with a range of mental health difficulties who require complex case management/clinical interventions.
You will have opportunity to access training, and to develop your existing skills in working within all the relevant LMHT Pathways. We are a very supportive and experienced team who work to a recovery and psychologically informed model.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to work with patients and their families to support triage of referrals, assessment, personalised care planning and in the provision of specialist interventions. You will promote the recovery of patients and through working with partner agencies and primary care to ensure timely and safe discharge from secondary care.
This is a leadership role, and you will be expected to develop specialist skills in working within all pathways within the team. You will also be expected to support students and more junior staff within the team through clinical supervision and mentorship, and you may be asked to line manage some staff.
We are seeking enthusiastic team players, to work within a dynamic multi-disciplinary health team, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability and experience to manage complex cases in partnership with other agencies.
Working for our organisation
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire.Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network.These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Day to Day Duties:
- Caseload management for patients living in the community, and acting as care coordinator.
- Triage of referrals, provision of initial assessments and one-to-one interventions with service users.
- To undertake and record comprehensive need/risk assessments, devise and implement treatment plans for service users.
- To demonstrate the application of specialist skills and knowledge in order to maintain professional competence and fitness to practice as a nurse practitioner.
- To establish and maintain robust communication networks with clients, carers, team members, other health care and social care workers within urgent care and the community
- To use interpersonal skills in diffusing potentially emotive situations while undertaking assessments and pathway planning within acute settings.
A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Professional Qualification (Mental Health/Learning Disabilities/General) to degree level or equivalent
- Maintains current registration with a governing body
- Demonstrates continued professional development
- Leadership course
- Further specialist knowledge/post registration experience in specific service area or other formal training
Contractual Requirements
Essential criteria- A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post
- Ability to work to meet the needs to the service (including unsocial hours and bank holidays)
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Knowledge and understanding of current legislation
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical risk assessment and management
- Knowledge of evidence based approaches to practice
- Awareness of national and local policy impacting on nursing care
- Knowledge of Management Approaches
- Demonstrates good knowledge of medication administration
Skills
Essential criteria- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Good verbal and written communication
- Good skills in clinical assessment
- Able to provide short term therapeutic interventions
- Ability to manage conflict and de-esalate issues.
- High level of emotional intelligence
- Demonstrable clinical supervision skills
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of working with adults with mental health problems
- Specialist and area specific experience
- Experience of working within a community setting
- Demonstrates satisfactory clinical expertise at band 5 level, and shows ability to develop competence at Band 6
- The closing date given is a guide. We reserve the right to close the post early once we have received a sufficient number of applicants, so we advise you to submit your application early to prevent disappointment.
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