The role of the Community Mental Health Nurse is to work within their professional scope of practice to actively promote values-based practice when working with others to ensure rights-based and recovery-focused approaches whilst advocating for the service user. Completing comprehensive assessments and personalised care which is dynamic and flexible to support service users and their families/carers. By providing evidence-based interventions, specialist nursing advice and carrying out nursing procedures. Working as a role model within a multi-disciplinary team enhancing the unique value of mental health nursing.
To work as an autonomous practitioner as an active participant of the multi-disciplinary team undertaking specialist nursing assessments in collaboration with the service user and their families/carers and presenting back to the wider MDT.
• To work in partnership with service users and their families/carers to ensure the development of a treatment plan to facilitate their safety, promote their well-being and support their independence and inclusion in the community. This may include working closely with partner agencies.
• To deliver evidence-based interventions following NICE guidelines to promote recovery and relapse prevention in a variety of settings.
• To regularly review care and outcomes, supporting service users to complete clinical outcome measures and monitoring progress and adapting treatment options as required.
• Knowledge of common physical health conditions and their management, and an ability to complete cardiometabolic assessments.
• Extensive knowledge of medications including side effects, management, and the administration of medications within the NMC guidelines and Trusts policies.
• Offer professional consultation to multi-agency services/meetings/forums.
• Contribute to the duty provision within the team.
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