Community Mental Health Nurse inScunthorpe inScunthorpe PUBLISHED
MON 28 OCT 2024
Candidates should be experienced Registered Mental Health Nurses (RMNs) with post-registration experience in inpatient and community settings. A strong commitment to enhancing mental health services in North Lincolnshire, along with organisational skills, enthusiasm, and a passion for adult mental health, is essential. The role also emphasises the importance of establishing strong connections with local GP surgeries and third sector organisations to better serve the community’s mental health needs.
The Primary Care Network Mental Health Team has an exciting opportunity for an experienced mental health nurse to join our team.
Do you have a passion for working within adult mental health? Then come and join the team and meet likeminded people.
The aim of the team is to bridge the gap between primary and secondary mental health care: providing accessible primary care level mental health interventions to the population of North Lincolnshire.
The pathways within Primary Care Network Mental Health are: Routine Pathway, Dementia Pathway, Medication Management Pathway, Mental Health and Wellbeing Pathway, and Severe Mental Illness Physical Health Check pathway. These vacancy is within the routine pathway, but we are an integrated team, so awareness of all pathways is required.
The routine pathway accept all routine referrals into mental health services. The role involves triage, assessment, signposting and offering brief interventions in line with the primary care model. The post holder will be expected to assess risk and ensure any urgent referrals are actioned by the relevant team.
The North Lincolnshire Primary Care Network Mental Health are committed to establishing our service within the wider Primary Care Networks and have colleagues embedded in GP surgeries. Expanding this is the focus of our service. We welcome applicants who feel they have the drive, skills and expertise to continue this further development.
The post holder will be an enthusiastic, highly organised and motivated mental health professional who can provide high quality nursing expertise and support within the routine pathway.
It is essential that the applicant can demonstrate post registration experience as an RMN, which may include inpatient and community settings.
The following tasks and duties will also form part of the role, however this list is not exhaustive:
- Triage of incoming referrals to establish urgency / risk
Holistic mental health assessment
Development of appropriate treatment plans / signposting to relevant third sector organisations
Recruitment, supervision, and deployment of staff.
Advice, training and induction and mentorship of learners.
Audit, research and service monitoring.
Liaison within the multi-disciplinary care team, including carers, voluntary agencies etc.
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