Job overview

The post holder will deliver, or advise on the delivery of, high quality safe nursing care, ensuring consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence which comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of professional conduct. 

As Community Psychiatric Nurse you will promote and develop clinical leadership and clinical practice and be a positive role model to junior members of the team through the practice of evidence-based care. You will be expected to support professional development through clinical appraisal and supervision and contribute to the ongoing educational programme for staff, fostering a positive learning environment. Your professional and personal development will include further postgraduate study and you will be encouraged and supported by your line manager to undertake master’s programmes. 

As a senior nurse working within the Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust /  the South London Mental Health and Community Partnership you are required to encourage and foster collaborative and cross organisational working.  

Key Task and Responsibilities

Clinical Skills: - Management responsibilities, Leadership, Clinical

As a member of the clinical team, providing patient care, we encourage you to be   Caring,  Competent,  Courageous, Committed, Communicative and Compassionate

The Nursing and Midwifery Council requires nurses to:   Priorities people,   Practice effectively, Preserve safety and  Promote professionalism.

Research

Communication

Main duties of the job

As Community Psychiatric Nurse you will promote and develop clinical leadership and clinical practice and be a positive role model to junior members of the team through the practice of evidence-based care. You will be expected to support professional development through clinical appraisal and supervision and contribute to the ongoing educational programme for staff, fostering a positive learning environment. 

 Key Task and Responsibilities: -

This job description is an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities expected of a Band 6 Nurse.  The specific responsibilities associated with different speciality roles are listed below.

 Clinical Skills   

Management responsibilities

Leadership

Clinical

Research

Communication

The following statements are mandatory for all job descriptions:

Confidentiality

Risk Management

Infection Control

Equality, Diversity and Human Rights

Health & Safety

Professional and NHS Codes of Conduct

Safeguarding

Financial Management and Control of Resources’.

Customer Care

Personal/Professional Development Planning/Mandatory Training

Sustainability

No Smoking                                                                                                                

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent and manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital in Woolwich as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are one of the largest providers of prison health services providing healthcare to prisoners across Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care