Clinical Lead Nurse Specialist - Stroke / ABI Coordinator

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Mental Health Band support worker to join the Wisbech Neighbourhood team to deliver Older People's Mental Health Care in the community.

The successful candidate will be covering Fenland and Wisbech catchment area. It is essential to be able to drive from one venue to the next.

The Mental health team's key objectives are to focus on supporting patients and their carers living with functional and organic mental illness in the community.

As a support worker, you will work closely with the Mental Health practitioners to implement care plans, manage risk, prevent hospital admissions and work with carers to prevent carer burnout and care placement breakdown.

The successful candidate will not only bring experience of supporting people living with mental illness but an ability to be imaginative, innovative, and highly motivated to make a difference.

We're a supportive team and will include you in practice development .

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work within the Wisbech Neighbourhood Teams supporting people who live with severe and enduring mental health and dementia.

The team cares for people who live in the Fenland and Wisbech areas. The post holder will be required to work in a variety of locations such as nursing / residential homes and the patient's own home.

The post holder will be required to take an active role in implementing care and support plans for people as outlined by the care coordinator in collaboration with both paid and unpaid carers

The post holder will manage delegated tasks for a number of service users, whilst under the supervision of a Band / Mental health nurse / practitioner or above.

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community.

These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.