An exciting opportunity has arisen to join an innovative team delivering preventative services to individuals with moderate levels of frailty across the South Staffordshire community.
The successful candidate will join the Staying Well Service as a fulltime Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse . The role involves assessment and interventions focused on mental wellbeing and memory, offering strategies and self-management tools to help prevent mental ill health and cognitive decline.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Community Mental Health to work within our dynamic, multi-disciplinary team. Our team includes Community Nurses, Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapists, Assistant Practitioners in therapy and mental health, Pharmacists, GPs, and Community Connectors.
The service supports adults living in their own homes who have been identified as experiencing mild to moderate frailty. Our proactive, preventative approach aims to manage frailty progression by empowering individuals to understand and manage their own health and wellbeing, promoting healthy lifestyles, facilitating community engagement, and reducing social isolation.
You will be working as a Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse within our Staying Well Service Team . The main duties of the role include:
Specialist assessment of memory and mental welling of those with moderate levels of frailty.
Deliver a range of interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care to support wellbeing and memory needs.
Providing Memory and Mental Health support/ assessment within Staying Well Clinics held at various venues across South Staffordshire.
Visiting patients in their own homes to carry out interventions.
Completing reviews if those Staying Well patients with a diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment
Attending and providing feedback in weekly multidisciplinary team meetings.
Liaising and working collaboratively with carers.
Liaising with, and making onward referrals to, other agencies— statutory and non-statutory.
Recording and reviewing data related to individuals referred.
Participation in the setting of quality standards, including auditing, monitoring and reviewing of practice in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.
Utilise agreed outcome measures as part of the care planning and evaluation process.
Participating in community events in collaboration with our partners to engage the general public in conversations around wellbeing.
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning organisation with over 9000 employees. We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.
We pride ourselves on the services provided to support with the well-being of all of our employees both physically and mentally and offer counselling support and lifestyle information. Opportunities for flexible working are also available depending on the role.
We encourage career development provided by in house training programs and coaching support.
Demonstrating our strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and in context of our objective aligned to the growth of diversity across the workforce; we are particularly seeking applications from individuals who may be from under-represented groups, such as black, Asian or other ethnic groups, individuals with a disability, or LGBTQ+ individuals who meet the specific criteria.
We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.
You will deliver assessment and therapeutic interventions to address wellbeing as well as offering guidance and upskilling around memory and mental wellbeing to the wider MDT. You will assist in developing strategies to support mental wellbeing, promote self-care, and encourage social inclusion. Additionally, you will contribute to preventing decline in both wellbeing and memory by implementing appropriate support strategies.
You will adopt a person-centred approach , working in partnership with patients and others involved in their care to support them in managing their own health and wellbeing. As an integral part of the Staying Well Service, you will be expected to work both independently and as part of a team , exercising autonomy where appropriate.
We are looking for confident, caring, and committed individuals who are passionate about delivering high-quality care and making a positive impact in the lives of others.
You will help ensure the timely delivery of integrated, high-quality, person-centred interventions. These interventions aim to improve the wellbeing and functionality of individuals with mental health needs, physical health conditions, and/or social care challenges—thereby helping to prevent, reduce, or delay the need for more specialist services.
As part of a multi-disciplinary team you will contribute to ensuring that all the needs of service users are met. This role promotes wellbeing, independence, and informed choice, while supporting efforts to delay the progression of more complex needs, in line with established policies and procedures.
You will also liaise with a range of professionals and agencies, both statutory and non-statutory, acting as a link between the Staying Well Service, Talking Therapies, MPFT Mental Health Services, and VCSE (Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise) organisations.
