Job Description

We have a vacancy in the Spalding Older Adult OACMHT and are seeking to recruit a Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse to work within our team. The team consists of CPNS, associate practitioners and a nurse associate. This post could also be a development post; therefore, it would be suitable for a newly qualified member of staff at Band 5 who could be supported through a competency framework to support transition to a senior Band 6 CPN.



The Team provides a service across Monday to Friday 9-5, offering assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for patients of all ages presenting with memory difficulties and for older adults experiencing mental health difficulties. The successful applicant will be providing high quality, person-centred care to patients, families, and carers and working as part of the MDT to ensure good patient outcomes.



Liaising with various stakeholders will be a regular part of your job; this can include GP surgeries, carers and families, other teams within LPFT, and Adult Social Care. Regular joint working with other teams within LPFT, such as the Home Treatment Teams and the inpatient wards, requires some flexibility and shared responsibility.



Our division has an integrated home treatment team to support patients who may be requiring enhanced support.



The team is based at the Johnson Community Hospital site, but the applicant will be expected to work across the surrounding area.



To provide a high standard of clinical care, ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.



To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate.



To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of nursing members of the Community Mental Health Team are of the highest standard of clinical care.



To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.



To act as care co-ordinator under the Care Programme Approach, ensuring up-to-date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place.



Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances, and enable them to understand, manage and, where appropriate, change their behaviour.



Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people's identified needs and manage their inherent risk.



To assess carers' and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for carers and families.



Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.



Enable individuals to develop independent living skills and live in the community.



Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire.



Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.



You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work.



We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!



We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services. This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future.



We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions.



We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.



Responsibilities for direct/indirect patient care.



Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people's identified needs and manage their inherent risk.



Contribute to case conferences and reviews, supporting service users and carers to engage with services and contribute to their care.



Accept ongoing accountability for service users, hold and manage delegated caseloads (complex cases) and supervise and/or mentor junior staff and learners as required in the provision of direct/indirect nursing care.



Responsibilities for policy and service development implementation



Comply with and carry out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, appropriate Codes of Conduct, the Mental Health Act (1983) and other relevant national and local guidance, commenting on policies, procedures and developments as necessary.



Responsibilities for financial and physical resources



Use safely, in accordance with the manufacturer's guidance, clinical equipment in the performance of their work to appropriate high standards of care.



Ensure any stock and supplies, clinical equipment or medications are ordered as required. Responsibilities for human resources (including training)



To provide both formal and informal training, health promotion and advice to patients and carers/relatives regarding their mental health needs.



To actively participate in the delivery of training opportunities for staff and students, including those from other teams and disciplines