Practice nurse

4 weeks ago

Gillingham, United Kingdom Medway Community Healthcare Full time

Job summary

Do you have a specialist interest and experience in mental health nursing? Are you registered with the NMC as an RGN or RMN, with an independent prescribing qualification? Are you passionate about supporting people to stay in their homes?

If you answered yes, we've got the perfect role for you

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for improving care for adult service users and carers, aged 18 and over, across Medway Primary Care Networks. The nurse would work within the GP surgery facilities, providing the following support:

Supporting patients recently transferred back to the GP from Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) Secondary Care ensuring patients with Serious Mental Illness (SMI), and Dementia, have the best possible chance to remain stable in the community. Carrying out annual reviews and physical health checks for mental health patients in primary care including but not limited to Dementia Annual Reviews, Serious Mental Illness (SMI) reviews. Signposting patients to relevant community services in the community to support mental health recovery. Working with local mental health services and the KMPT Primary Care Mental Health Service, maximizing effectiveness and avoiding duplication of care. Attending community based multi-disciplinary team meetings aligned to their Primary Care Network when required.

About us

So what else?

This is your chance to join a progressive and innovative service in a social enterprise that is patient and staff focused - you'll even have the opportunity to become an MCH shareholder. We encourage staff to get involved in exploring new ways of working and service development. We'll provide well established, in-service training, one to one supervision, and appraisals with regular support. You'll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.

Would you like to work flexibly?In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important work life balance is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The small print

Informal visits can be arranged on request. We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and the scottish widows group pension scheme. MCH encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, their colleagues, their family and their patients.

At this time, MCH cannot fund or support any further nurses who require the OSCE training. Please do not apply if you require this training.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job purpose The post holder is responsible for improving care for adult service users and carers, aged 18 and over, across Medway Primary Care Networks. The nurse would work within the GP surgery facilities, providing the following support: Support patients recently transferred back to the GP from Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) Secondary Care ensuring patients with Serious Mental Illness (SMI), and Dementia, have the best possible chance to remain stable in the community. To carry out annual reviews and physical health checks for mental health patients in primary care including but not limited to Dementia Annual Reviews, Serious Mental Illness (SMI) reviews. Signpost patients to relevant community services in the community to support mental health recovery. Work with local mental health services and the KMPT Primary Care Mental Health Service, maximizing effectiveness and avoiding duplication of care. Attend community based multi-disciplinary team meetings aligned to their PrimaryCare Network when required.

In addition to this, the nurse will also: Work within and adhere to the relevant professional codes of conduct, standards of practice and relevant policies and guidelines. As a health professional take responsibility for developing, planning,coordinating, delivering and evaluating the service provided to practiceswithin the Medway area. The post holder will need to be flexible,innovative and proactive in-service development. The post holder is an autonomous practitioner, responsible for provisionof assessment, interventions, education, and discharge planning ofclients referred from within the Medway area. The post holder will act as a source of expertise and demonstrateadvanced knowledge, skill and experience in the management ofvarious mental health conditions, using a bio-psychosocial approach. Liaises and supports other health care professionals, multi-agencyprofessionals and third sector providers. Required to report on the delivery of the programme against agreedtargets. To work as part of a team with other primary care nurses and the widerprimary care workforce, in a variety of community settings where thereis a requirement to make decisions within local policies and dimensions of the role include: Support recovery by pro-actively enabling medically-stable individuals tomove from secondary to primary care. Support must be personalised topatient (and their family/carers) needs and that agreed shared careresponsibilities are in place and are clearly documented. This willinclude proactively identifying and booking patients in for appointments. Provide support to primary care clinicians and practice staff in themanagement of mental health conditions in primary care. Support theeffective navigation of patients through the various mental healthsystems and services. Ensure that local voluntary sector, health andsocial care provision are used effectively. Liaise with GPs to improve the physical health outcomes of those with along-term mental health condition and the mental health outcomes ofthose with a long-term physical health condition.

Full JD can be found in the attachments

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree in nursing NMC registration Independant prescribing qualification Accredited fieldwork educator Further training relevant to the role at the level of post graduate or MSc equivalent

MCH values

Essential

Demonstrates behaviours in line with all three MCH values

Experience

Essential

Specialist interest or experience in mental health nursing Experience of managing projects or leading defined pieces of work Extensive clinical experience Experience of audit/research and clinical governance procedures and their application in practice Experience of working in primary care settings Experience of supervising junior staff and students Leadership experience

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