Community Mental Health Nurse

• Manage a defined caseload of adults with complex health needs, providing assessment, treatment, care coordination and ongoing review.
• Formulate care plans and evaluate outcomes in partnership with service users and carers.
• Deliver evidence-based, recovery-focused interventions that promote independence, wellbeing and social inclusion.
• Assess, manager and respond appropriately to clinical risk, safeguarding concerns and crisis situations to ensure the safety of service users, carers and others.

Essential

• Part III or 13 of NMC live register
• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
• Basic IT skills

Desirable

• Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts within own area of work/responsibility

Essential

• Evidence of development of specialist practice nursing skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
• Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held
• Development of specialist/advanced level of practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development

Essential

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills
• Good time management skills
• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity