Practice nurse - specialist interest mental health
| Posting date: | 22 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £43,742.00 to £50,056.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £43742.00 - £50056.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 May 2024 |
| Location: | Gillingham, ME8 0PZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B9813-24-0132 |
Summary
Job purposeThe post holder is responsible for improving care for adult service users and carers, aged 18 and over, across Medway Primary Care Networks. The nurse would work within the GP surgery facilities, providing the following support: Support patients recently transferred back to the GP from Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) Secondary Care ensuring patients with Serious Mental Illness (SMI), and Dementia, have the best possible chance to remain stable in the community. To carry out annual reviews and physical health checks for mental health patients in primary care including but not limited to Dementia Annual Reviews, Serious Mental Illness (SMI) reviews. Signpost patients to relevant community services in the community to support mental health recovery. Work with local mental health services and the KMPT Primary Care Mental Health Service, maximizing effectiveness and avoiding duplication of care. Attend community based multi-disciplinary team meetings aligned to their PrimaryCare Network when required. In addition to this, the nurse will also: Work within and adhere to the relevant professional codes of conduct, standards of practice and relevant policies and guidelines. As a health professional take responsibility for developing, planning,coordinating, delivering and evaluating the service provided to practiceswithin the Medway area. The post holder will need to be flexible,innovative and proactive in-service development. The post holder is an autonomous practitioner, responsible for provisionof assessment, interventions, education, and discharge planning ofclients referred from within the Medway area. The post holder will act as a source of expertise and demonstrateadvanced knowledge, skill and experience in the management ofvarious mental health conditions, using a bio-psychosocial approach. Liaises and supports other health care professionals, multi-agencyprofessionals and third sector providers. Required to report on the delivery of the programme against agreedtargets. To work as part of a team with other primary care nurses and the widerprimary care workforce, in a variety of community settings where thereis a requirement to make decisions within local policies and guidelines.Key dimensions of the role include: Support recovery by pro-actively enabling medically-stable individuals tomove from secondary to primary care. Support must be personalised topatient (and their family/carers) needs and that agreed shared careresponsibilities are in place and are clearly documented. This willinclude proactively identifying and booking patients in for appointments. Provide support to primary care clinicians and practice staff in themanagement of mental health conditions in primary care. Support theeffective navigation of patients through the various mental healthsystems and services. Ensure that local voluntary sector, health andsocial care provision are used effectively. Liaise with GPs to improve the physical health outcomes of those with along-term mental health condition and the mental health outcomes ofthose with a long-term physical health condition. Full JD can be found in the attachments