This role also entails facilitating clinical sessions, conducting assessments, and implementing treatment plans based on positive behavior support principles. You'll participate in formal reviews and meetings, including tribunals, while utilizing your specialized mental health skills to address challenging behaviors and meet the needs of older adults in care settings. The team environment emphasises support, diversity, and knowledge sharing among colleagues, thus enhancing professional growth and patient care.
We are keen to recruit an experienced Band 7 Community Psychiatric Nurse to provide specialist input to the Care Home Pathway within the team. You will be working alongside colleagues from a range of professional backgrounds including Team Consultant to provide specialist advice and consultation to people living in care homes within the local area. This will predominantly focus on people with dementia who are showing behaviour that challenges themselves or others, and may also include people with moderate-severe mental health difficulties.We provide a supportive and nurturing team environment where colleagues learn from one another, celebrate diversity, and openly share experiences, difficulties and new ideas.
You will provide holistic, autonomous care and maintain communication with primary care professionals and other professionals and agencies through regular informal and formal meetings.
You will facilitate clinical sessions and assess/triage clients/patients according to agreed assessment tools, offering short-term interventions based on psychological therapies and offer professional advice to client/patients and their carers, other professional, statutory and voluntary agencies.
The care home pathway is guided by the principles of Positive Behaviour Support and offers evidence-based approaches to promote the wellbeing of people with dementia and the wider system.
- You will provide holistic, autonomous care and maintain communication with primary care professionals and other professionals and agencies through regular informal and formal meetings.
- Responsible for a defined complex caseload within the team. Using specialist Mental Health knowledge and skills, carry out individual clinical assessment, plan and formulate a range of interventions and treatment options within care plans, implement and evaluate packages of care.
- You will draw on your professional skills and knowledge to assess and respond to behaviour that challenges in dementia, as part of a stepped-care service by delivering interventions that focuses on unmet needs of people using services. You will also be proficient at assessing and supporting older people in care homes who are struggling with moderate-severe mental health difficulties.
- Treat clients with short term interventions where assessment has indicated this. Assess and treat clients with complex, severe and enduring mental health problems who may be on a community section of the mental health act.
- You will facilitate clinical sessions and assess/triage clients/patients according to agreed assessment tools, offering short-term interventions based on psychological therapies and offer professional advice to client/patients and their carers, other professional, statutory and voluntary agencies
- To attend Tribunals and other Multi-Disciplinary Meetings and prepare reports.
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