Job overview

 An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated Band 4 NMC registered Nursing associate  to Join the Skegness Community Mental Health team. The team provide a 5 day a week service, Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.  We are a friendly, supportive and proactive team with a culture of delivering a high quality of care. The team works collaboratively with a range of internal and external partners, GPs, Neighbourhood teams, Social workers and Integrated Placed based teams.  The team provide therapeutic interventions for those individuals that experience  severe and enduring mental illness. Offering nursing interventions in a wide variety of clinical, therapeutic and social forms with the aim of promoting health, wellbeing, self autonomy and independence.  The nursing associate will work independently under the leadership of the registered mental health practitioner, working within the sphere of delivering nursing care within all aspects of the nursing process.

The Successful candidate will work effectively in the multidisciplinary team and work collaboratively to provide high quality mental health assessments, treatment plans and risk management plans, providing evidence based nursing interventions.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will perform nursing interventions advocated within the service users care plan, recognise the contribution of others in the provision of service user care. Monitor the condition and health needs of people within their care on a continual basis in partnership with service users, families and carers.  Promote engagement and involve service users/ carers in the planning and delivery of compassionate care.  Monitor the impact and effectiveness of nursing care delivered.  Make and maintain accurate record keeping. Provide problem solving skills by identifying solutions in routine clinical issues. Participate in regular clinical and management supervision. The successful applicant will be required to have a good knowledge of the medication management policy and safely administer medication as prescribed.  Be able to demonstrate competence in providing and promoting  physical health care checks to service users within the scope of their practice.  Make and maintain accurate records of nursing care in accordance with the professional (NMC) guidance and Trust policy.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family,  Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.