Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse - Erdington and Kingstanding HTT inBirmingham inBirmingham PUBLISHED
FRI 18 OCT 2024
Responsibilities include assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based care for designated service users, as well as participating in setting and monitoring quality standards in line with clinical guidelines. The nurse will also need to adhere to professional responsibilities under the Care Programme Approach, safeguard legislation, and the Mental Health Act 1983. Establishing therapeutic relationships and implementing appropriate interventions while maintaining professional boundaries is essential.
We are looking to appoint a dynamic and talented Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse within the Erdington and Kingstanding Home Treatment Team.
Erdington and Kingstanding HTT provides an intensive community service to individuals aged 16 and above who are experiencing a crisis with their mental health. We work within an MDT and are a fast paced and busy team. You can expect to build upon skills of working in a pressured environment, responding and managing to crises and delivering short term interventions. The successful candidates should be highly motivated with significant post qualification experience, patient centred in their approach to care and ideally have experience of working in an acute and/or urgent care.
Home Treatment is a 24 hour service and staff will be working a shift system. The current shift pattern is 08:00 to 16:00 (Early), 13:00 to 21:00 (Late), 08:00 to 21:00 Long Day and 20:30 to 08:30 (Night). Team members can also be expected to be rotated on these duties as and when required.
To be responsible for the assessment, planning implementation and evaluation of the evidence based care required, including health promotion for a named service user/group.
Responsible for participating in the setting of quality standards, including the monitoring and reviewing in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.
Responsible for ensuring the post holder understands and meets their professional role and responsibilities under the Care Programme Approach and current adult and child safeguarding legislation.
Responsible for ensuring that the requirements of the Mental Health Act 1983 and Code of practice are observed, adhered to and implemented.
Responsible for establishing therapeutic relationships with service users, and the implementation of evidence based therapeutic interventions with appropriate boundaries in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Councils professional code of conduct.
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