Registered Mental Health Nurse

The Clinical Beds team provides holistic assessments to patients who require a period of rehabilitation and assessment prior going home after being discharged from hospital.

We work closely as a multidisciplinary team alongside our partner services such as Adult social care and continuing health care to aid patients and families make long term decisions about their health and social care needs.

This is an excellent opportunity to broaden your skill set in a holistic manner working with physiotherapists, occupational therapists and mental health nurses along with supporting junior colleagues such as student nurses, assistant practitioners and rehabilitation support workers.

Work as an autonomous practitioner, undertaking comprehensive assessments to identify and meet the nursing needs for individuals under the care of the clinical beds team. You will be responsible for carrying out profession specific and holistic assessments, creating and evaluating care plans as required.

Alongside the multidisciplinary team the successful candidate with plan and develop goal focus rehabilitation/reablement programmes for adults with a wide variety of complex physical and mental health needs, while the individuals are having a period of assessment and/or rehabilitation with the aim to facilitate discharge into an appropriate setting

The ideal candidate will be an experience registered nurse with knowledge and experience of community services, you will need to be able to prioritise your workload, have excellent communication skills and be able to build therapeutic relations with our partner services such as adult social care and continuing health care.

For any questions relating to the post or to arrange an insight visit please contact Maryam Ebrahim, Clinical Beds Team Manager,  or

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Job Purpose

• To work as an autonomous practitioner, you will undertake comprehensive assessments to identify and meet the mental health needs for Individuals under the care of community beds as well as support with their general assessments and rehabilitation goals.
• To carry out profession specific, and holistic, assessments, care plans and evaluation as required.
• To assist the multi-disciplinary team to plan and develop a goal focused rehabilitation/reablement programme for adults with a wide variety of complex physical and mental health needs while individuals are having a period of assessment and facilitate their discharge to an appropriate setting.
• To be responsible for continuing the ongoing development of high standards of clinical practice with evidence-based focus.
• To work as required within the Community Beds team across our sites, liaising with patients, families and social services to assessing individuals

Dimensions

• This post has no budgetary responsibility; however, the post holder is responsible for demonstrating cost consciousness.
• You will be required to work across different bases and community settings which may include a clients own home, community bed, nursing home or hospital.
• You will be responsible for a designated caseload of clients.
• You will be required to participate actively in City Cares training requirements.
• You will supervise, educate and assess the competency of junior staff, support staff and students.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership

• To support the Team Manager in implementing and evaluating targets and objectives to assist in the ongoing development of the whole service.
• To advise the Team Manager in relation to clinical needs of the client group.
• To take…