Mental Health Nurse Band 6NHS

Job summary

You will be joining Haringey Community Rehabilitation Team as a Band 6 care coordinator. The team promotes Trauma Informed Rehabilitation based recovery work to support of service user independence.

You will be working with service users with complex psychosis that reside in 24 hour supported accommodation and will have a complex caseload.

You will be joining a very supportive team, where you can pull on the the experience and expertise of the full MDT.

Main duties of the job

1.Carry overall responsibility for the management of a caseload, acting as a care coordinator.

2. Deliver high quality assessment, effective care and treatment that is carried out within a multidisciplinary framework and in

collaboration with other agencies.

3. Involve service users and their carers in planning care that includes all of their individual and diverse needs.

4. Design individual programmes of care collaboratively with patients to maximize self management and social inclusion and reflect their own goals and aspirations. Review and adjust plans according to changing service user needs.

5. Provide evidence based therapeutic interventions using developed interpersonal skills such as CBT or psycho-education.

6. Provide service users and their carers with clear and intelligible information which will assist them in making informed decisions about their treatment and care.

7. Administer medication, monitor for effects and side-effects, in accordance with NMC Standards and Trust policies.

8. Facilitate vocational rehabilitation and those aspects of mental health recovery concerning occupation.

Maintain clear, comprehensive and contemporaneous clinical records on all patients in response to personally generated clinical observations, in accordance with professional standards and Trust policies

Job description

1.Carry overall responsibility for the management of a caseload, acting as a care coordinator.

2. Deliver high quality assessment, effective care and treatment that is carried out within a multidisciplinary framework and in collaboration with other agencies.

3. Involve service users and their carers in planning care that includes all of their individual and diverse needs.

4. Design individual programmes of care collaboratively with patients to maximize self management and social inclusion and reflect their own goals and aspirations. Review and adjust plans according to changing service user needs.

5. Provide evidence based therapeutic interventions using developed interpersonal skills such as CBT or psycho-education.

6. Provide service users and their carers with clear and intelligible information which will assist them in making informed decisions about their treatment and care.

7. Administer medication, monitor for effects and side-effects, in accordance with NMC Standards and Trust policies.

8. Facilitate vocational rehabilitation and those aspects of mental health recovery concerning occupation.

Maintain clear, comprehensive and contemporaneous clinical records on all patients in response to personally generated clinical observations, in accordance with professional standards and Trust policies

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required 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, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or 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.