Sanctuary Personnel is currently looking for an experienced Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse (CPN) to take on a new ongoing contract role, working as a Depot Administrator within the Adults Community Mental Health Team.
Location: Leeds
Pay Rate: £26 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract Type: Locum, 3-month contract
Shift Pattern: Core hours are 09:00 am - 17:00 pm, Monday - Friday, although flexibility around start & finish times is available. E.g., 08:00 am - 18:00 pm for 4 days a week, 08:00 am - 16:00 pm, 09:00 am - 18:00 pm etc. Part time considered.
Duties:
- Work closely with the Clinical Team Manager (CTM) in overseeing efficiency and effectiveness of treatment given and support the CTM in carrying out his/her duties
- Present as a positive and professional role model to all staff within the unit, striving to maintain a philosophy of service user involvement in continuously improving the service
- Work as an integrated member of the clinical team, participating in all aspects of day to day service provision
- Work with a defined caseload of service users and usually as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing assessment, careplanning and care delivery
- The provision of highly skilled nursing care, psychological interventions, group work, clinical assessment, risk assessments / risk management, and promoting recovery and inclusion
- Work autonomously, manage caseloads, undertake initial assessments and carry out home based treatment interventions
- Provide leadership, management and supervision / appraisal for junior staff (and sometimes other members of a multi-disciplinary team) and often lead / coordinate / supervise teams of staff in the delivery and evaluation of care
- Have designated areas of practice to lead within the team / unit
- Regularly take charge of a team and to delegate and supervise the work of other junior staff, and may be required to oversee the safe running of groups
Requirements of the Community Mental Health Nurse:
- Consistently demonstrate the ‘Six C’s’ – namely care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment
- Registered Qualification, Nurse, OT, Social worker
- Evidence of further study relevant to role
- Experience and knowledge of the problems and difficulties experienced by thosewith mental health illness
- Understanding of and ability to effectively implement the Mental Health Act and DoLS as relevant to clinical area
- Knowledge / experience of joint working with Local Authority for example social care and Leeds Community Health
- Experience of working effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Demonstrate knowledge in person centred approaches and awareness of legislation that affects delivery of health care in mental health
- Experience in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care to meet service user needs
- Demonstrates importance of sound evidence based health interventions when delivering/initiating direct care work
- Ability to work in partnership with families / carers
- Demonstrates experience in assessing and formulating treatment plans
- High level of skill in de-escalation of distress and anger
- Knowledge of CPA framework and ability to act as named care coordinator
- Has a good working knowledge of psychological approaches in mental health
- Has an understanding of the relevant skills required and a commitment to developing skills in psychological thinking and interventions (appropriate to skill level and in line with the serviced integrated care pathways)
- Demonstrate knowledge of clinical governance and the ability to implement this in practice within the relevant service area / setting
- Has experience of working with diverse populations and values the work associated to promoting diversity and social inclusion
Contact:
This Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse job is advertised by Alex West; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from: PIP Assessors, Ward Managers, Deputy Ward Managers, CAMHS Practitioners, Community Mental Health Nurses, Mental Health Nurses, Nurses, Psychiatric Nurses & Community Nurses as we have vacancies that match with these job titles. Online remote nurse jobs are available from time to time so please get in touch.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Registered Mental Health Nurse role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements.
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Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into you work placement.
