Job overview

The Pennine Care Community Rehabilitation Team is looking to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic Registered Mental Health Nurse to join our supportive multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will have significant experience and knowledge of working with people with chronic relapsing and remitting mental ill health, including experience of working across a range of mental health services.  

The team supports service users to transition from inpatient mental health rehabilitation facilities to living in the community, supporting people to improve their quality of life and work towards achieving the goals and outcomes identified by those who we support. A further aim of the team is to reduce the length of inpatient stay for service users from both acute and rehabilitation wards, incorporating least restrictive practice.

The team has a strong emphasis on the Recovery Model and Social Inclusion, working with service users using a strengths based and trauma informed approach to maximise their independence and autonomy to improve their quality of life.  

You will work with a team of experienced practitioners with a strong biopsychosocial, evidence based interventions. 

The team is a trust wide service covering all five boroughs of Pennine Care and it is therefore essential you drive and have access to a car. We are based at Trust HQ in Ashton Under Lyne. Our core hours are Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.

Main duties of the job

•          Please See Attached Job Description for full details 

         Provide autonomous assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of complex mental health care in line with the NMC

•        Conduct clinical risk assessments and develop risk management plans for complex patients in the community.

•        Deliver evidence-based interventions that promote recovery, independence, and meaningful rehabilitation.

•        Undertake home visits and community-based clinical work.

•        Manage and prioritise a defined caseload, ensuring timely reviews, risk reassessment, and intervention planning.

•        Maintain accurate, up-to-date documentation and contribute to internal audits.

•        Work collaboratively with the MDT and voluntary sector partners.

•        Provide compassionate, trauma-informed communication with service users and carers.

•        Respond appropriately to distressed, anxious, or agitated individuals, including the use of de-escalation skills

•        Act as a practice assessor/supervisor for student nurses.

•        Participate in continuing professional development and mandatory training.

•        To work with families and carers using the Triangle of Care principles.  

•        To carry out designated responsibilities under the organisation’s Safeguarding Adults/ Children policies.  

Working for our organisation

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel