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Job role: Senior Community Mental Health Nurse
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: 246-CEN7928180
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About the Job:
The ideal candidate will have an interest in working within a busy and dynamic community mental health service. The post holder will undertake the planning/delivery of direct patient care with minimal supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within an MDT/multi-agency environment.
- Managing a caseload and the provision of mental health care services to people with mental health care needs.
- Provide planned care/risk assessment/screening for patients within their care plan and ongoing evaluation of patients’ needs, and identify suitability for potential discharge in conjunction with the MDT and via caseload management/supervision.
- Initiate and attend patient-centred reviews, case conferences and other meetings as required.
- To advise the Responsible Clinician(s) and/or health and social care professional of any change in the patients’ conditions and/or circumstances.
- To work within the MDT and to form working partnerships with other care providers.
- To ensure service users/carer(s) are enabled and empowered to make informed decisions about their care and delivery of that care, working with agencies from within and outside the MDT.
Participate in the duty worker rota (Monday to Friday, 09:00 am to 5:00 pm).
- Undertake the supervision of students who will be undertaking placements within the Team.
- Undertake management and clinical supervision for junior colleagues.
Benefits included with this role are:-
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in-house & external training programme
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum, increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more
To apply for this job please visit beta.jobs.nhs.uk.
