Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Unit 9, The Point
Town Sleaford
Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 07/02/2025 23:59
Community Psychiatric Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced and enthusiastic registered Mental Health Nurse to join the newly developed Sleaford CMHT. This role will suit a band 5 wishing to develop or someone who already has experience at band 6.
This role provides the opportunity to be involved in the journey of transforming adult community mental health services within LPFT. It offers the practitioner opportunities for creative approaches to working, ensuring the patient remains central in the care and intervention planning. The support and interventions delivered are recovery focused, promoting independence and resilience to ensure high quality outcomes for patients and carers.
You will work co-productively within Lincolnshire healthcare including Primary and Secondary care services, social and voluntary care system and patients, and carers. This enables individuals to achieve their optimum physical, psychological, and social wellbeing and improve the lives of people who access healthcare services within the locality of Sleaford.
Main duties of the job
The role involves acting as the lead in the care and treatment required to support clients with complex mental health needs and facilitating the new Relationships and Emotional Skills Group.
Main duties of the role will include:
1. Conduct assessments and deliver specific therapeutic interventions, including liaising with other professionals regarding progress and outcomes to provide a link between hospital and community and/or primary and secondary services.
2. Have responsibility for documenting the plans of care and ensuring that plans remain current and that standards for record-keeping are adhered to. Risk assessment and risk management are essential requirements.
3. Administer prescribed medication and assess the service user for desired and non-desired effects.
4. Delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patient care, where appropriate.
5. Attend regular MDT meetings with the team manager to address caseload management issues such as acceptance of assessments, the provision of ongoing care, discharge planning, face-to-face contacts, and service user mix.
6. Support clients with their physical health awareness and some health education.
7. Assess carers and family’s needs and develop, implement, and review programmes of support for carers and families.
8. Allocate diary time to cover the Duty rota.
9. Provide managerial supervision to colleagues in the team.
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
* Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
* Competitive annual leave allowance
* Car leasing scheme
* Free eye tests
* Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
* Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Person specification
Experience
* Relevant experience of working with adults with mental health needs or clear evidence of substantial experience of working with individuals in crisis and skills that are transferable to both community/in-patient.
* Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illnesses.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
Skills and Competences
* Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health.
* Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
* Delegation whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patient care, where appropriate.
* Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.
* Ability to work independently and collectively.
* Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
* Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes.
Qualifications
* RMN or RNLD or RN: 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent.
* Currently Registered Nurse.
* ENB998 / FliPS or equivalent.
* Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.
* Management training.
Special Requirements
* Ability to travel independently across the county.
As an ethical recruiter, we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role, you must have UK NHS experience.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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