Community Mental Health Nurse

Client Name: Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust

Role: Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse or Mental Health Social Worker

Rates: up to £43 p/h

Shifts: 37.5 hours per week Monday - Friday. 9am-5pm

**Benefits**:

- Access to Care4Carers - our support service to help support your mental health and wellbeing and enable you to deliver outstanding care.
- Competitive pay rates
- First sight of agency nursing shifts across multiple trusts
- Next-day payroll
- Block bookings in your favourite locations
- Excellent support from your own dedicated consultant
- Revalidation support
- 24/7/365 service - we're available when you need us

Medacs Healthcare is looking for nursing professionals who specialise in mental health to work flexible shifts at MPFT. Responsible for forming trusting relationships with your patients, your goal will be to help those individuals to lead happier, healthierlives. You should be a fully qualified Mental Health Nurse, with at least 6 months experience working in the NHS.

**Main duties and responsibilities**:

- Take responsibility for the management of a complex caseload, which includes, specialist assessment (within service specification), care planning in colloboration with service user and carer, evaluation of individual treatment plans (Care Programme Approachand Single Assessment Process).
- Responsible for participating in the setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing of practice in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.
- Assess patient's individual care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
- Deliver a range of interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care and Pathway guidance including; pharmacological and psychologically informed interventions.
- Complete and contribute, where appropriate to robust risk assessments and risk management plans. Deliver and promote positive risk taking, where appropriate, to improve quality of life and maximise occupational performance/independence.
- Utilise agreed outcome measures to review the effectiveness of interventions, as part of the care planning and evaluation process.
- Participate in the development of the service to ensure clinical governance processes are actively implemented at team level.
- Assist in ensuring that the aims and objectives of the ward/department (as set by the responsible clinician) are fulfilled and to identify factors which may inhibit these from being achieved.
- The post holder will be required to work within the NMC Code of Practice and professional guidelines.
- Maintain an up-to-date level of professional competence within the specific environment.
- Assist in the implementation of evidence-based nursing practice and participate in research and other projects as required.

**Research and Service Development**:

- Identify and highlight to the Pathway Manager relevant issues in relation to the needs for people and their carers; assessed using best practice evidence, in order that these are reflected in service planning, development and future provision.
- Develop efficient and relevant health promotion activities to promote health education and ensure that preventative approaches and interventions are used to maintain independence.
- Actively engage in the organisations clinical governance initiatives, for example to participate and lead in audit, clinical supervision and bringing critically evaluated evidence and research into practice.
- Participate and lead on research within area of clinical expertise.
- Participate in the development of the service to ensure clinical governance processes are actively implemented at team level.