Community Mental Health Practitioner/Community Psychiatric Nurse
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
To work within a community team based within the Guildford and Waverley area working in partnership with statutory and voluntary sector to facilitate a whole system approach to care delivery. The Post Holder will act as a Care Coordinator/Lead Professional, where appropriate, to patients who require the skills of a Mental Health Nurse, and provide a holistic, clinical autonomous nursing service, to enable individuals to engage in the best standards of care available.
Suitable for someone who is enthusiastic about ensuring a high-quality holistic approach to the care and support provided to clients in the community who have been identified as in need of community nurse support to enable them to exercise choice over their own lives.
Main duties of the job
* To deliver a high-quality community nursing service to Older People with mental health problems, in a multi-professional framework and the ability to lone work adhering to local and Trust policies.
* To prescribe services that meet the user/carer needs, in conjunction with others. To attend and prepare reports for MDT meetings and to participate in the Team's DUTY Rota system.
* To ensure the safe storage and recording of medicines within the clinical area. To administer intramuscular injections (depots), as prescribed according to Trust and National guidelines and policies and to ensure the safe delivery of oral medications to clients, in the domestic environment according to Trust guidelines and policies.
* To act as Key Worker/Care Coordinator or Lead Professional for named individuals, within the Care Programme Approach process, including Single Assessment.
* To provide high standards of care, which are delivered in a professional manner and care delivered is based on best practice and is regularly reviewed and to refer to other professional services, according to assessment of need.
* To attend and ensure all referrals are passed through CMHT allocation meeting and assessed for acceptance to the specialist team and act as support and specialist advisor to the primary care service.
About us
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Job responsibilities
This is a role suitable for an NMC registered Community Psychiatric Nurse who is passionate about delivering excellence in dementia care in care homes.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* RMN
* Successful completion of Mentorship course OR equivalent
Experience
* Community mental health working experience
* Working with Older People
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.
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Sector Manager for Guildford and Waverley
£39,205 to £47,084 a year Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.
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