Our clients are urgently seeking to recruit a
Locum Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse to join their Primary Care Mental Health Team.
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm
Job Purpose
To work as part of a Primary Care Mental Health Team (PCMHT) to deliver timely assessments, care planning and evidenced based health and psychosocial care interventions to the adult population in the borough with mental health needs.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical:
To support the team with overall management of referrals, providing timely screening, triage and trusted assessments for patients with a wide range of mental disorder.
To be professionally accountable for a delivering a range of evidenced based psycho-social interventions for a specific case list.
To work in collaboration with our partner agencies and the MDT to provide a range of interventions to support service users to stay well within their local communities including psychological, social prescribing and medication advice and management
To work with patients and carers using evidenced based tool to inform care planning to support engagement with treatment and appropriate services.
To support family and carers with the management of risk and to escalate all risk concerns as required ensuring that there is clear communication of risk to all involved with care.
To work collaboratively with colleagues within the PCMHT using shared decision making to ensure safe and effective discharge planning or onward referral. This may include discharge to Primary Care, onward referral to secondary care, signposting to social prescribers, third sector partners, voluntary services or community based groups. To ensure that all planning is shared with those involved with the care in a timely manner.
To develop a close relationship with Primary Care practices with the PCN, attending practice meetings and effective communication
To take part in range of MDT governance, development and clinical meetings.
Significant knowledge, awareness and understanding of Mental Health Law, including legislation of particular relevance to the community sector including the Community Care Act (2015) treatment legislation
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity and would like to find out more, please call 01322 282470. Alternatively, you can reach the recruitment team via e-mail at recruitment@westmeriarecruitment.co.uk