Community Mental Health Practitioner/ Community Psychiatric Nurse inGuildford inGuildford PUBLISHED
TUE 12 NOV 2024
This position is ideal for an NMC registered Community Psychiatric Nurse who is dedicated to providing excellent care, particularly in dementia care in community settings. The role requires collaboration with both statutory and voluntary organisations to facilitate an integrated approach to mental health care, adhering to local and Trust policies while effectively managing patient needs within a multi-professional framework.
To work within a community team based within the Guildford and Waverley area working in partnership with statutory and voluntary sector to facilitate whole system approach to care delivery. The Post Holder will act as a Care Coordinator/Lead Professional, where appropriate, to patients who require the skills of a Mental Health Nurse, and provide a holistic, clinical autonomous nursing service, to enable individuals to engage in the best standards of care available.
Suitable for someone who is enthusiastic about ensuring a high-quality holistic approach to the care and support provided to clients in the community who have been identified as in need of community nurse support to enable them to exercise choice over their own lives.
- To deliver a high-quality community nursing service to Older People with mental health problems, in a multi - professional framework and the ability to lone work adhering to local and Trust policies.
- To prescribe services that meets the user/carer needs, in conjunction with others. To attend and prepare reports, for MDT meetings and to participate in the Team's DUTY Rota system.
- To ensure the safe storage and recording of medicines within the clinical area. To administer intramuscular injections (depots), as prescribed according to Trust and National guidelines and policies and to ensure the safe delivery if oral medications to clients, in the domestic environment according to Trust guidelines and policies.
- To act as Key Worker/Care Coordinator or Lead Professional for named individuals, within the Care Programme Approach process, including Single Assessment
- To provide high standards of care, which are delivered in a professional manner and care delivered is based on best practice and is regularly reviewed and to refer to other professional services, according to assessment of need.
- To attend and ensure all referrals are passed through CMHT allocation meeting and assessed for acceptance to the specialist team and act as support and specialist advisor to the primary care service.
Please see the Job Description for full requirements of this role.
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This is a role suitable for an NMC registered Community Psychiatric Nurse who is passionate about delivering excellence in dementia care in care homes.
Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.
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