Community Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

WE are looking to provide mental health expertise in the care of adults to the community multi-disciplinary team, to ensure service user care is safe and of a high quality. To work in collaboration across professional and organisational boundaries to provide a comprehensive and holistic assessment of our service users needs. To ensure they can safely remain in the community or return home.The Band 6 Mental Health Nurse will support the caseload, they will oversee and manage the risk by carrying out clinical risk assessments and mitigating the risks with a person-centred plan of care.They will take responsibility for developing the mental health knowledge and links between the community teams.

Main duties of the job

The Mental Health Nurse will deliver evidence-based community mental health care, supporting the most complex cases whilst providing support/education/clinical supervision to the wider Community Services teams. Provide leadership to the team on a shift-by-shift basis alongside other Band 6 colleagues.They will promote and maintain the highest attainable standard of nursing care in a community setting, ensuring information on diagnosis and care planning is appropriately documented for continuity and transparency. We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We want to attract staff who embrace our 'Right Care' behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together.

Please see job description and personal specification attached to the application form, please read thoroughly before submitting an application and ensure you meet the criteria provided

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Date posted

17 April 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

351-CEN861-MT-E

Job locations

Pathways

St Aidans Road

Bamber Bridge

PR5 6GD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the Job Description and Person Specification for more information about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the Job Description and Person Specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Professional qualification Registered Mental Health Nurse.

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of mental illness and impact upon quality of life
Knowledge of Risk formulation

Experience

Essential

Post qualification experience within mental health services. With some of these to have been within acute mental health services.
Experience of working with a full range of mental illness
Experience of providing supervision.

Skills

Essential

Skills in the use of methods of assessment, formulation / interventions, and evaluation
Well-developed skills in providing clinical supervision and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Professional qualification Registered Mental Health Nurse.

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of mental illness and impact upon quality of life
Knowledge of Risk formulation

Experience

Essential

Post qualification experience within mental health services. With some of these to have been within acute mental health services.
Experience of working with a full range of mental illness
Experience of providing supervision.

Skills

Essential

Skills in the use of methods of assessment, formulation / interventions, and evaluation
Well-developed skills in providing clinical supervision and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

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.