Job overview

As a Community Mental Health Nurse for Adult Community South, you will be expected to...

• take a clinical role in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of services for clients.
• contribute and participate in multi-disciplinary team assessment.
•  be involved in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of person-centred care planning and person centred formulations.
• provide a first line response to referrals, providing where necessary a health and social care needs assessment or meeting the needs already identified in a health and social care needs assessment.
• As lead care professional  to ensure accurate mental health clustering is carried out on admission, discharge and at reviews.

Main duties of the job

• Ensure that nursing practice is person centred and, as far as possible, promoting the direct involvement of patients and carers in the development of the plan of care from admission to discharge.
• Ensure that clinical practice is consistent with the Care Programme Approach.
• Identify personal learning and training needs through appraisal and personal development plans linked to service needs.
• Take responsibility for ensuring that personal nursing practice is informed by relevant local and national developments and is evidenced based.
• Under the direction of the Community Team Manager, participate in clinical audit and clinical governance activities.
• Regularly undertake research and development and clinical trials, as necessary to own work.
• Carrying out Risk Assessment Act as the lead care professional for a case-load of patients with ultimate responsibility for providing an individualized plan of care for each patient.
• Delegate appropriate tasks to junior staff where appropriate.
• Act as duty clinician as needed. Cover FACT function when on rota and support team with FACT function as needed. 
• Share information with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, either verbal or written.

Working for our organisation

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.