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Senior Community Mental Health NurseSomerset NHS Foundation Trust • Bridgwater, United Kingdom
Senior Community Mental Health Nurse

Senior Community Mental Health Nurse

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust • Bridgwater, United Kingdom
13 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description
Job summary
Are you a Registered Mental Health Nurse looking for a rewarding opportunity within crisis and urgent care services?
Our friendly and dynamic Home Treatment Team is seeking a skilled and compassionate Registered Mental Health Nurses. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a supportive, multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality, person-centred care in the community.
You'll work across both the Home Treatment and First Response Services, responding to individuals in acute mental health crisis and providing care and support that helps people remain at home and avoid unnecessary hospital admission.
We recognise that staff wellbeing is essential in delivering compassionate care. You'll be supported by a close-knit and understanding team that values collaboration, respect and professional growth.
This role will involve flexible working across a 24-hour shift rota (days and night shifts) in a 7 day a week service

Main duties of the job
As a Senior Community Mental Health Nurse, you will play a key role within our Urgent Care Pathway, offering rapid response assessments and home treatment as an alternative to hospital admission.
You will be responsible for:
  • Holistic Assessments: Conduct thorough psychosocial and risk assessments in a range of settings including clients' homes, acute hospitals and community venues.
  • Care Planning: Develop and implement safe, creative and evidence-based care plans tailored to the individual's recovery needs.
  • Crisis Intervention: Deliver short-term therapeutic interventions such as emotional skills work, behavioural activation and psychoeducation.
  • Medication Management: Administer medication safely within the community and monitor for side effects.
  • Collaborative Working: Work closely with families, carers and professionals across health and social care to ensure continuity of care.
  • Supervision and Support: Provide leadership and supervision to Band 5 staff, students and support workers.
  • Service Development: Contribute to quality improvement initiatives and the ongoing development of urgent care services in Somerset.

You will need excellent interpersonal and clinical skills, a flexible approach to shift work, and a commitment to providing compassionate, person-centred care.

About us
As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, fantastic pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.
The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.
There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will to experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan -- there is truly something for everyone!

Job description
Job responsibilities
  • Undertake urgent, holistic community-based assessments of individuals in acute mental health crisis.
  • Deliver brief, recovery-focused interventions and coordinate care as a named keyworker.
  • Act as a gatekeeper for inpatient beds and support early discharge planning from inpatient units.
  • Participate in the First Response Service, offering timely triage and telephone support for those experiencing crisis.
  • Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver psychological, medical and social interventions.
  • Manage risk effectively, including formulation, planning and escalation as needed.
  • Promote and uphold the Trust's values of Kindness, Respect, Teamwork and Everyone Every Day in all aspects of care delivery.

For a full list of duties and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
  • Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) with current NMC registrationSignificant post-registration experience in community mental health services

Desirable
  • Evidence of post qualifying professional development in an acute setting

Experience
Essential
  • Experience of working with individuals in mental health crisis, including risk assessment and care planning

Desirable
  • Evidence of post qualifying professional development in an acute setting
  • Good knowledge of resources and working practices across health and social care
  • Ability to be innovative in practice

Additional Criteria
Essential
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage sensitively with patients, carers and professionals about complex or distressing issues.Ability to travel round Trust area to fulfil the requirements of the roleStrong organisational skills, including the ability to manage time effectively and work independently under pressure.Commitment to high standards of compassionate, recovery-focused care, with a values-driven approach that supports equality, diversity and inclusion.

Desirable
  • Good knowledge of resources and working practices across health and social careAbility to be innovative in practiceDemonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, including experience of leading, delegating and supporting junior staff.


Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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