Employer Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Quayside House
Town: Oldbury
Salary: £37,339 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/01/2025 23:59
Community Psychiatric Nurse/Care Co-Ordinator
NHS AfC: Band 6
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.
Across the whole of the region we provide:
* Adult and older adult mental health services
* Specialist learning disability services
* Mental health services for children and young people
* Community healthcare services for children, young people and families in Dudley
Following recent investment to support the transformation of community mental health nursing, we are pleased to announce that we are looking to recruit additional Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurses within the Community Recovery Services across the Sandwell locality.
Your role will include working as a Care Coordinator where you will have responsibility for managing a caseload of service users with mental health needs who have been referred to the team via a number of access points. As a further extension of this role you will also be involved in crisis management as part of the duty system and you will undertake the role of the duty nurse on a rostered basis. You will work from our community base facility, via phone/agile working or within the service user’s home.
Main duties of the job
As a Registered Mental Health Nurse, preferably with adult and community mental health experience, you will be responsible for assessing and formulating individual interventions, plans and outcome measures that promote recovery, in line with the recovery model and relevant legislation for all people on your caseload.
You will need to have an up-to-date knowledge of NHS policies and practices in mental health. The successful applicants will have previous experience of a range of therapeutic interventions and psychotropic medications. You will have proven ability to work with partner agencies, lead projects and motivate people to deliver them. You will have excellent communication skills with a flexible approach.
The team is committed to providing safe, sound and supportive services. You will receive regular supervision, with opportunities to develop clinical and professional practice in line with service users’ needs and organisational values.
Person specification
* RMN
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to communicate with staff at all levels, patients, carers, and external agencies
* Specialist skills in assessing and formulating individual intervention plans for adults with mental health difficulties
* Ability to use own initiative and work without supervision
* Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
* Effective IT skills and administrative skills to support accurate record keeping
* Experience of collaborative working across agencies and professional disciplines
* Excellent risk assessment and management skills
* Ability to deal with challenging situations
* Post registration experience of working in multidisciplinary community mental health services
* Knowledge of government directives and current policies
* Working knowledge of relevant legislation including MHA 1983
* Knowledge of the safe storage, administration and monitoring the effectiveness of psychotropic medications
* Experience of organising own workload and managing competing demands
* Understanding of psychosocial interventions
* Organisational and time management skills
* Flexibility of working hours
* Personal integrity
* Drive and enthusiasm
* Demonstrates a belief in working within a person-centred care approach
* Ability to lead and motivate projects and people
* Promotes recovery and social inclusion
* Ability to commute to meet the post requirements
* Good general standard of health
* An ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
* A problem-solving approach to professional practice
* Demonstrate Trust behaviours
* Community experience
* Degree or post-graduate study
** Please Note that Internal at Risk Employees will be given preference for this position**
The Trust is committed to equal opportunities, providing opportunities for flexible working and is a non-smoking organisation.
As a Trust we are passionate about Anti-Racism, Disability Inclusion, and LGBTQ+ Equality, and are committed to diversifying our staff team in all areas and at all levels of seniority to better reflect the diverse communities we serve.
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