Community Mental Health Practitioner inStamford inStamford PUBLISHED TUE 15 OCT 2024

The Stamford Community Mental Health Team are looking to recruit a full-time band 6 registered Mental Health Nurse.

This role gives the opportunity to be involved in the journey of transforming adult community mental health services within LPFT. It offers the practitioner opportunities for creative approaches to working, ensuring the patient remains central in the care and intervention planning.

Support and interventions are delivered that are recovery focused and promote independence and resilience and deliver individual needs led, high quality outcomes for patients and carers.

You will work co-productively within Lincolnshire healthcare including Primary and Secondary care services, social and voluntary care system and patients, and carers. This enables individuals to achieve their optimum physical, psychological, and social wellbeing and improve the lives of people who access healthcare services in the locality of Stamford and Bourne

The role involves acting as the lead in the care and treatment required to support clients with complex mental health needs demonstrating practice that is evidence-based and innovative.

The main duties of the role will include:

Conduct assessments and to deliver specific therapeutic interventions. Including liaising with other professionals regarding progress and outcomes to provide a link between hospital and community and/or primary and secondary services.

To have responsibility for documenting the plans of care and ensuring that plans remain current and that standards for record-keeping are adhered to. Risk assessment, and risk management is an essential requirement.

Administer prescribed medication and assess the service user for desired and non-desired effects.

To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate.

To attend regular MDT meetings with the team manager to address caseload management issues such as acceptance of assessments, the provision of ongoing care, discharge planning, face-to-face contacts and service user mix.

Supporting clients with their physical health awareness and some health education.

To assess carers and family's needs and develop, implement, and review programmes of support for cares and families.

Allocate diary time to cover to the Duty rota.

To provide managerial supervision to colleagues in the team.

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To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.

To work flexibly across a 7-day-a-week service.

To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate.

To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of nursing members of the Community Mental Health Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.

To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.

To act as care co-ordinator under the Care Programme Approach, ensuring up to date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place.

Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour.

Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk.

To assess carers and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for cares and families.

Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.

Enable individuals to develop independent living skills and live in the community.

To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making, both within the Community Mental Health Team and with external agencies.

To maintain accurate and timely clinical records and to co-ordinate and monitor those of the team.

To adhere to N.M.C. codes of professional conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation.

To develop clinical practice having due regard to guidelines of the N.S.F. for Older People, N.S.F for Mental Health, N.I.C.E. and N.I.M.H.E.

To demonstrate empowering leadership skills within the Community Mental Health Team and seek opportunities in local and national area as to promote and develop the profession.

To participate in Clinical Governance activities, including: induction, supervision, personal development review, health and safety, risk management and audit.

To undertake specific project work or any other duties as negotiated with the Community Mental Health Team Co-ordinator.

To act as lead professionals within the Community Mental Health Team.

Supervise health and social care staff in the support and monitoring of clients programmes of care managed within the team.

Develop effective and supportive links with other health and social care staff. To create networks that improve the pathway of care for clients referred to the Community Team.

Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments including post registration education, training and continuing professional development.