Community Mental Health Nurse Practitioner | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | Bamber Bridge, PR5 6GD |
| Company: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6238198/351-CEN861-MT-E |
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.
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
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.
Please see attached the Job Description and Person Specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 May 2024