Our clients are urgently seeking to recruit a
Locum Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse to join their Mental Health Integrated Network
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm
Job Summary:
This role will involve a number of elements which will support people with mental health conditions in the new integrated mental health teams. These roles will be key in providing professional nursing support to the new primary care network based teams and will provide mental and physical health support helping people to engage with their local communities and benefit from all the supports available locally. The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team which will cover a Primary Care Network or locality and will work across networks to form a truly innovative and ground-breaking support structure.
The objectives of the services are:
To consider an individual’s needs holistically – mental and physical health as well as social needs
To reduce the need for repeated long assessments and story telling
To provide early advice and guidance with signposting to the relevant services where appropriate therefore supporting individuals to make full use of community resources available
To bridge the gaps that can appear between community mental health care and primary care, acute care, social services and support.
To ensure easier access to the right level of care such as group programmes, therapy etc.
For Care plans to be person centred – developed with the individual and others involved in their care
Provide an enhanced level of support to Primary Care colleagues through advice and training to improve skills and capacity in responding to the needs of people with mental health needs.
To work within an agreed process for safe transfer from WLT to GPs as well as and rapid re-referral, when appropriate
That individuals transferred to their GPs under this process have access to appropriate advice, advocacy, vocational support to access social networks
To operate within legislative frameworks – Mental Health Act 2007, The Mental Capacity Act 2005, The Care Act 2014 and other relevant health and social care legislation.