Community Mental Health Nurse
Job Description
Job summary
A fabulous opportunity has arisen for a band 5 CPN within the Kensington and Chelsea older adult community mental health team.
The post holder would work alongside an experienced MDT and you would be a named worker for a caseload of Older Adult service users with mental health needs in the community.
The multi-disciplinary team has close links and is co-located with our social work colleagues. It is a friendly and supportive team and is welcoming of new staff. Research and service development is encouraged and supported both by the team and the Trust.
You do not need to be car driver for this community post as all visits are done by public transport in this interesting and diverse borough.
Main duties of the job
To promote the health and wellbeing of users and to maintain a safe, caring and therapeutic environment for Older Adults with mental health needs in a community setting.
To provide a high standard of nursing practice within a Multi-Disciplinary Model, in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care in negotiation with Service Users, Carers and other services, considering the needs of a diverse community.
To undertake key worker responsibilities for mental health service users with severe and enduring mental health needs, using evidence based, client centred interventions in accordance with Trust and Local Authority policy.
About us
There's a place for you at CNWL.We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.Providingtop quality caredepends on our ability to employ the best people.We're always looking torecruit outstanding peoplewho will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.With adiverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Job responsibilities
- To provide comprehensive, culturally appropriate, evidence-based assessments to establish eligibility for health and social care services and consult/refer to other services when appropriate.
- To key work an allocated caseload of service users with complex mental health, incorporating thefollowing:
- To provide all service users with an adult mental health assessment encompassing health and social care needs in line with national and local policy; and Section 117; and any other relevant
- To undertake continuous Risk Assessment and Risk Management.
- To formulate, monitor and review service user care plans
- To provide direct therapeutic care to users in their own home or other community settings, using evidence-based nursing skills and psychosocial interventions.
- To co-ordinate and manage all aspects of care, including overseeing work carried out by statutory and non-statutory agencies. To offer supervision, training, and guidance to external agencies and internal junior staff members as required.
- To identify cultural, spiritual and communication needs of users within a diverse community and ensure that these needs are addressed in the care plan.
- To co-ordinate a multidisciplinary response to crisis situations.
- To ensure regular reviews of the care plan and ongoing monitoring of all aspects of treatment and services provision.
- To provide evidence-based medication management in line with NMC guidelines and Trust Policy and to develop user centred medication concordance.
- To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the care provided to users, in collaboration with users, carers, GPs and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
- To identify carers and to offer statutory Carers Assessments and Care Plans. To review Carers Care Plans in line with policy and statutory requirements.
- To work in partnership with other agencies (e.g. Housing, Benefits, Social Services, etc). To facilitate appointeeship, benefit claims and other financial and housing support.
- To identify substance misuse Issues and work within a Dual Diagnosis model when required.
- To identify Adult Safeguarding and Child Protection issues and to implement procedures as required.
- To work as part of the Kensington and Chelsea Community Mental Health Duty System as required and to provide assessment and respond to mental health and social emergencies.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN - currently NMC registered
- Evidence of post registration training and CPD.
Desirable
- Training in Psychosocial Interventions or Thorn Family Therapy/Work training; Other relevant training, e.g. substance misuse
Experience
Essential
- Significant years post- registration experience
- Experience of working in multidisciplinary mental health team with clients with acute/severe and enduring mental health problems
Desirable
- Work with clients with acute/severe and enduring mental health problems who are Older Adults
- Work with people experiencing mental health crisis.
- Supervision of students and junior staff
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including report writing and presentations / IT skills.
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate a comprehensive care package for the identified client group, using a wide range of resources.
- Able to develop a comprehensive programme of intervention and support for the identified client group and their families
Desirable
- Skills in leadership: ability to motivate others, use initiative and manage change.
- Basic counselling and group work skills.
- Dual diagnosis/substance misuse
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St Charles Hospital
Exmoor Street
London
W10 6DZ
