registered nurse North Shields, England
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the MHSOP Community Mental Health Team to operate as a Community Psychiatric Nurse within the Older Adult’s pathway within a specific Geographical area.
To provide specialist skills, knowledge and experience for those identified as having Mental Health problems.
To work as part of a Community Team which may be integrated, working collaboratively and in partnership with other services.
To be compassionate in meeting the needs of Service User’s and their carers.
To be professionally accountable and responsible for service user care. To undertake a range of clinical / therapeutic interventions within the service user’s home environment or other community settings.
Working as a community mental health nurse your role will be to undertake the assessment and management of services users presenting with complex mental health care needs.
You will provide a comprehensive assessment of need, offering intervention, advice and support to service users, family, carers and other professionals involved in their care.
As part of the multidisciplinary team, you will ensure that care and treatment is delivered to a I high quality, ensuring that person centred care is deliver, risk are managed and appropriate treatment and other interventions (pharmacological and non-pharmacological) are offered within I timely manner.
You will contribute to the effective care planning of the service user’s needs by providing regular reviews, risk assessment with the goal of working towards safe discharge planning.
You will practice in accordance with the Trust' Values: Respect, Everyone's Contribution Counts, Responsibility & Accountability, Patients First, Safe & High Quality Care.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
To operate as a Community Psychiatric Nurse within the Older Adult’s pathway within a specific Geographical area.
To provide specialist skills, knowledge and experience for those identified as having Mental Health problems.
To work as part of a Community Team which may be integrated, working collaboratively and in partnership with other services.
To be compassionate in meeting the needs of Service User’s and their carers.
To be professionally accountable and responsible for service user care. To undertake a range of clinical / therapeutic interventions within the service user’s home environment or other community settings.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which A) engages, enables and empowers others, and B) uses coaching to promote ownership or learning and quality improvement and C) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments across Organisational boundaries.
