Community Mental Health Nurse

We are looking to recruit Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse with a passion for working with people with mental health condition. This is a well established, high performing team delivering compassionate care in the community to adults who suffer from mental health problem. You will be working in a team that is diverse in background, highly motivated, friendly, agile, flexible and responsive. The post-holder will provide effective and timely care within a multidisciplinary team setting for working age adults who present with functional mental health problems who are residing in the London Borough of Enfield. The post holder will carry a defined caseload and will work closely with other members of the team, including Psychologists, Medical professionals, Social Workers, Nurses other Health & Allied professionals to ensure that the best quality of care is provided. This work will be underpinned by a bio psychosocial model of care and the post holder will ensure that best practice psycho-social interventions are offered wherever possible within their skill set.,

• To work as a Care-coordinator within the team in the planning, delivery, co-ordination and evaluation of assessments and formulation
• To work closely and collaboratively with other members of the team including Psychologists Medical professionals and other Allied Professionals to provide optimal
• To carry out complex person-centred assessments.
• To ensure that all care offered is evidence based and all interventions take into account specific physical, cultural, psychological and spiritual needs of service users.
• To assess care needs, devise care programmes, packages of care including Risk assessment, Dialog+ and implement and evaluate these in collaboration with individual service users and their carers.
• To support and mentor less experienced staff, support workers and students from related professional backgrounds who are on placement within the team.
• To undertake duties designed to extend clinical and managerial expertise as delegated by the Team Manager when required.
• To undertake comprehensive outcome monitoring of all referrals.
  
  We are North London NHS Foundation Trust. In order to meet the needs of the services you may berequired from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay and Camden and Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.