Registered Mental Health Nurse Development Post Band 5 to 6

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• To provide access to, and ongoing, psycho-education and health promotion regarding illness, disability and health to service users and families.
• To provide interventions and to work with other disciplines/agencies/teams in the care of service users experiencing co-morbid problems with substance use/misuse.
• To engage the service user and their family in relapse prevention and crisis planning, provide, and coordinate interventions that maximise the service users’ ability to resolve crises, remain at home and avoid the need for hospitalisation. 
• To deliver a flexible and responsive service through working practices that are dictated by service user/carer need and contribute to the provision of service continuity including outside normal working hours when necessary.
• To receive referrals from GPs and undertake comprehensive psycho-social mental health assessments to establish care needs.
• To identify where best those needs can be met and facilitate signposting, onward referral or rapid access to relevant professionals and services and/or to provide support/advice to the referring GP on effective management.
• To act as a contact point and provide a link/liaison role to GP practices with regard to patients with more complex mental health problems and/or co-morbidities
• To ensure early detection and fast tracking of clients with severe mental health problems.
• To provide a range of appropriate short and longer term, evidence based, psycho-social interventions for clients with more complex and severe, enduring mental illnesses (SMI) with the aim of preventing deterioration, relapse and longer-term intervention from mental health services and to help the service user and their family to reduce and manage symptoms, high risk behaviour and other disabling effects of psychosis with the aim of achieving, as far as possible, a full and sustained recovery.
•  To prioritise time and workload, in a flexible manner to meet community caseload responsibilities, participate in meetings and effectively develop personal skills knowledge and experience through supervision and training.
• To ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies.
•  To ensure that the principles of personalisation and individualised choice are inherent in the assessment and care planning process, including maximising service user’s access to direct payments and personal budgets.
• To identify appropriate resources, including residential and nursing placements and follow the Local Authority policy and procedures in order to access such services.
•  To support the wider team as necessary in providing regular comprehensive review of placements and services commissioned by the Local Authority for service users, in line with Local Authority policy and procedures
• To provide access to, and ongoing, psycho-education and health promotion regarding illness, disability and health to service users and families
• To ensure Safeguarding Children and Adult procedures are fully understood by self and others. To ensure the safety needs of children and adults are met at all times and take appropriate action when a child or adult is felt to be at risk or in need. 
• To provide interventions and to work with other disciplines/agencies/teams in the care of service users experiencing co-morbid problems with substance use/misuse.
• To engage the service user and their family in relapse prevention and crisis planning, provide, and coordinate interventions that maximise the service users’ ability to resolve crises, remain at home and avoid the need for hospitalisation.
• To understand the social factors which are relevant to mental health problems and to be aware of and respectful of the cultures, customs, values and spiritual/religious practices and beliefs of all clients, regardless of age, culture, ethnicity and gender, sexuality and disability.
• To support the safe step down of patients not currently requiring mental health services, with a focus on enabling GP practices to provide effective, continuing care and to ensure access to support in terms wider social and social inclusion/self-management needs.
• To prioritise time and workload, in a flexible manner to meet community caseload responsibilities, participate in meetings and effectively develop personal skills knowledge and experience through supervision and training.
  If admission to hospital becomes necessary, to provide regular, formal, joint Inpatient review to ensure the service user is transferred/discharged to the lowest stigma/least restrictive environment as soon as clinically possible.
• To maintain standards of professional conduct at all times and observe the legal requirements of the MHA (1983), its Code of Practice, The Children Act (1989) The Mental Capacity Act (2005), Care Act (2014) and other relevant legislation and guidance.