Community Mental Health Practitioner / Nurse

Community Mental Health Practitioner / Nurse

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of older people and their carers within the community? The OPMH East Devon Community Team, based at St Johns Road in Exmouth, is seeking a committed and compassionate Community Mental Health Practitioner / Nurse to deliver high quality mental health services across the East Devon area.

About The Role: As a key member of our multi-disciplinary team, you will manage a defined caseload, providing continuous assessment and personalised treatment to individuals with a range of mental health presentations. This rewarding role is central to supporting peoples recovery and wellbeing.

• Key working: Design and co-ordinate bespoke treatment packages tailored to individual needs.
• Caseload management: Take responsibility for assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care.
• Liaison and partnership: Work closely with statutory and non-statutory agencies to ensure holistic support for service users and their carers.
• Team collaboration: Contribute effectively as an integral part of our multi-disciplinary team, sharing expertise and supporting joint working.

Main duties of the job:

• Contribute to the teams engagement including liaising with a wide range of other professionals and agencies.
• Impart complex and sensitive information to patients and families/carers regarding assessment, care planning, treatment, and review.
• Multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of consistent well co-ordinated care.
• Primary care teams regarding client care.
• External agencies also involved in the provision of care e.g.: voluntary and private sector, police, social services, housing, employment etc.
• Service user/carer groups.
• Contribute to the safe and effective day to day operations of the service including the handling of clinical enquires.
• Provide and receive information some of which may be contentious, sensitive and complex to and from individuals and their families/carers and actively seek support as appropriate.
• Provide a high standard of written and verbal communication that is clear and in line with professional documentation standards.
• Participate in clinical meetings, reviews, professional meetings, and clinical risk meetings.
• Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for service users and carers, working in line with practice standards and operational policies.
• Facilitate fair access to social care services and promote social inclusion regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
• Actively contribute to multi-disciplinary team working.

About Us

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing.

Our values: We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience – we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion.

Person Specification:

Essential Skills and abilities:

• Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with clients experiencing a wide range of mental health presentations.
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings.
• Able to produce well written reports and Computer literacy.
• Able to recognise potential difficulties and participate in finding solutions with the ability to assess risk.
• Able to prioritise work to reflect changing needs.
• Able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to manage own time and the ability to work flexibly.
• Ability to be mobile across a geographical area in a timely manner and in accordance with service need.
• Good clinical assessment skills.
• Ability to manage change in a positive manner.

Desirable:

• Able to participate and present information in a group setting.

Essential Experience:

• An understanding of the NSF and Mental Health Act/ Mental Health Capacity Act requirements.
• An understanding of CPA Process.

Desirable Experience:

• Understanding of recovery principles in Mental Health.
• Understanding of Health and Social Care Agenda for Older Adults.
• Understanding of Organic Presentations in Older Adults.
• Managing a caseload of clients with a range of mental health presentation.
• Experience of working with older adults with mental health problems.
• Working within a community setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector.
• Providing clinical supervision.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.

Essential Qualifications:

• An appropriate professional Mental Health qualification and registration e.g. RMN, OT or Social Worker.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Training to level 2 in Safeguarding Adults, children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff.