Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Mental Health Nurse working in the Older Adult Home Treatment Team. This post involves working in the community, covering the county of Lincolnshire, and visiting service users in their own homes/care homes. You may be required to travel across a large geographical area.

You will be part of a dedicated team and service that provides specialist input to service users and their carers who may be affected by a mental health diagnosis. You will be responsible for the delivery of specialist assessments and evidence-based interventions associated with all areas of older adults' mental health and contribute to delivering high-quality clinical services.

 This is a shared caseload of which the post holder will be part of, ensuring the delivery of a comprehensive and tailored approach to care, engaging in therapeutic interventions, following and writing meticulous person-centred care plans, and making a positive impact on the lives of those living with and navigating mental health-related difficulties, offering compassionate care in highly distressing situations. Contribute to the optimisation of service users' well-being, ensuring timely discharges and seamless transfers. Assume the role of educator and advisor, making significant contributions to the supervision of junior staff.

Main duties of the job

The Band 5 Mental Health Nurse will be able to work autonomously on completing the assessments and formulating person-centred care plans and risk assessments for those accessing this specialist service.

As part of this role, you will be expected to:

• Contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the evidence-based interventions required for the service user under the guidance of a senior practitioner.
• Promote service users' wellbeing and assist them to maintain their place in the community.
• Be responsible for the appropriate clinical risk assessment of service users, providing effective advice, guidance and decision-making processes culminating in the coordination of any reviewed plan of care under the supervision of a senior practitioner.
• Be responsible for making clinical judgements backed up by clinical reasoning and recommendations regarding appropriate actions/signposting in consultation with multidisciplinary staff and in accordance with the clinical pathway and service specification.

Working for our organisation

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 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, 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. 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 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.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family,  Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.