Community Psychiatric Nurse

3 months ago

Teddington, United Kingdom South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic Community Nurse to join our Kingston and Richmond Early Intervention Service (EIS) for a 12-month secondment/fixed term contract Applicants need to be professionally qualified and committed to providing responsive and high-quality clinical services to mental health service users and their carers.

The Early Intervention Team provides a service for those people with first onset psychoses between the ages of 17 and 65 years. The aim of the service is to provide intensive care using the Assertive Community Team model, to prevent relapse, reduce the number of "revolving door" admissions, ensure effective treatment for resistant symptoms, reduce the incidence of suicide, and maximise an individual's personal and social functioning.

The post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary team comprising of Doctors, Psychologist, Social Workers, CPNs, OT, Support and Recovery Workers, Employment Specialists, a Team Manager and team administration staff.

Main duties of the job

Applicants need to be professionally qualified and committed to providing responsive and high-quality clinical services to mental health service users and their carers.

This role is for a Care Co-ordinator to manage a caseload of clients aged between 18 and 65 who have experienced a first episode of any psychotic illness, using evidence based /client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.

Applicants must have a keen interest in all mental health issues and therefore is required to have up to date knowledge of treatments and protocols. The post holder will be able to work autonomously, exercise clear and coherent decision-making skills and be able to work flexibly.

The role involves working closely alongside the patients and their carers as well as various relevant agencies, including GP's, acute Hospitals, Social Services, as well as voluntary support services.

As part of the team, you will be expected to participate within the duty system. Working hours are Monday to Friday 9am-5pm

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To be accountable for the co-ordination of care plans for people who are in the early stages of psychotic illness between the ages of 18-65.

To work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

To assess health and social care needs and negotiate care plans with service users and their carers, remaining objective when working with diagnostic uncertainty.

To undertake risk assessments according to Trust policy.

To ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies, within the CPA structure.

To engage service users and carers assertively and offer care/interventions within the least restrictive setting in normal community environments.

To provide a service sensitive to age, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability.

To offer a range of evidence based psycho-social interventions and proactive risk management approaches to help the service user and their family to reduce and manage symptoms, high risk behaviour and other disabling effects of psychosis and enable, as far as possible, full and sustained recovery.

To ensure Trust, Kingston & Richmond Borough Child Protection Guidelines and procedures are fully understood by self and others. To ensure the safety needs of children are met at all times and take appropriate action when a child is felt to be at risk or in need.

To monitor treatment, support concordance and ensure prompt action is taken to alleviate unwanted effects.

To provide access to and ongoing psycho-education regarding first episode psychosis to service users and families.

To ensure basic needs are addressed housing, income, support in accessing education or training etc.

To recognise the developmental needs of service users, and enable a vocational/educational assessment within a specified time of their contact with the service, and to ensure the service user is supported in progressing plans made for education, training or employment.

To provide interventions, and work with other disciplines/agencies/teams in the care of service users experiencing co-morbid problems with substance use/misuse.

To engage the service user and their family in relapse prevention and crisis planning and provide and coordinate interventions that maximise the service users ability to resolve crises, remain at home and avoid the need for hospitalisation.

To deliver a flexible and responsive service through working practices that are dictated by service user/carer need and contribute to the provision of service continuity outside of normal working hours when necessary.

If hospitalisation becomes necessary, to provide regular, formal, joint inpatient review to ensure the service user is transferred/discharged to the lowest stigma/least restrictive environment as soon as clinically possible.

To be actively involved in developing early detection strategies with a range of agencies and in developing public awareness of first episode psychosis.

Person Specification

Education and Qualification

Essential

RMN Evidence of post qualification training/education

Desirable

Formal training in psychosocial interventions or equivalent

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

Experience of care coordination Demonstrable experience of working with people who experience serious ongoing mental health problems Experience of assessing and managing crisis in people with severe mental health problems

Desirable

Experience of working with/interventions for dual diagnosis (serious mental health problems and drug/alcohol misuse) Experience of working with people experiencing personality problems Experience of using and supervising others in the use of psychosocial interventions

Skills and Abilities

Essential

Knowledge of Mental Health Law & NHS and Community Care Act 1990 Knowledge of our business and how it supports patient care Ability to maintain and enhance effective working relationships both internally and externally, with a range of professionals and agencies Ability to assist the Manager to recruit, manage, motivate, supervise, appraise and develop staff Ability to plan, allocate and evaluate own work and develop self to enhance performance Excellent time management skills Able to meet the needs of clients creatively Can demonstrate an ability /experience/willingness to work in a creative manner that is not constrained by disciplinary boundaries

Desirable

Ability to contribute to, monitor and implement changes and improvements to services Ability to monitor and control resources Basic computer skills in Word, Excel, Email Experience of Rio computer system

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