Community Mental Health Nurse – South

Location: Cambridge. Grade: Band 6. Contract: Permanent. Working hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week including shift work. Pay: £39,959 – £48,117 per annum.

Job Overview

We are launching a new Assertive Outreach Team with two bases: Peterborough and Cambridge, covering the whole county. The role is to provide clinical nursing expertise within an MDT and deliver intensive community‑based mental health care to patients with complex needs who find it hard to engage with traditional services.

Main Duties

• Provide clinical nursing expertise to the Assertive Outreach team.
• Work clinically with patients under the team’s care, collaborating with wider Cambridge and Peterborough health and social care partners.
• Deliver intensive, community‑based mental health care to patients with complex mental health needs.
• Deputise for the Team Leader across the full range of management responsibilities, including performance reviews of junior staff.
• Act as care coordinator for patients, ensuring assessment, planning, implementation and review of nursing care occur regularly.
• Promote effective teamwork and act as a role model for colleagues.
• Ensure compliance with the CPA/DIALOGUE+, Mental Health Act and Trust policies and NMC standards.

Detailed Responsibilities

• Provide a good role model and develop communication systems.
• Act as an independent practitioner in a community assertive outreach setting, liaising with other professionals.
• Manage a defined assertive outreach caseload.
• Apply knowledge of the DACT model.
• Support the Consultant Psychiatrist and keep the clinician updated with patient information.
• Assist the consultant psychiatrist on home visits when required.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care within agreed parameters, keeping up to date with local and national policies.
• Ensure effective communication pathways.
• Conduct clinical risk assessment for out‑of‑hours service contacts and provide advice, guidance and decision‑making.
• Safely store and administer medications.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• Registered Nurse Mental Health (RNMH).
• Current NMC registration.
• Evidence of CPD.
• Mentor qualification / ENB 998 or equivalent.
• Postgraduate qualification related to specialism.
• UK professional registration.

Experience

• Experience working as part of a multi‑disciplinary team.
• Basic training in the Mental Capacity Act.
• Experience dealing with service users with complex mental health needs.
• Experience working with service users in community mental health secondary care services.
• Experience with psychosis service users.
• Experience undertaking continuing care assessments.
• Experience developing service-user and carer involvement.
• Experience relating to community specialism.

Skills and Abilities

• Effective communication skills, verbal and written, including IT literacy.
• Teamworking, role modeling, empowering and motivating others.
• Ability to present complex information to various audiences.
• Knowledge of physical healthcare needs.
• Commitment to evidence‑based practice.
• Awareness of safeguarding issues and responsibility under relevant legislation.
• Understanding of legislation including Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Act, Children’s Act, Equality Act 2010, Health and Safety Act, Data Protection Act, NICE guidance.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area within required timescales.
• Physically able to undertake a demanding role when required.

Other

• Willingness to follow instruction and question and challenge where appropriate.
• Committed to continuing professional development and participation.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. We are an equal opportunities employer.

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