Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 400+ reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Community Mental Health Nurse to take on a new ongoing contract role.
Community Mental Health Nurse Pay Rate: £25 per hour (assignment rate)
Location: Ipswich, Suffolk
Contract Type: Locum 3 month contract
Hours: Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm
Benefits of working with us:
- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
- Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years experience
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
Duties of the Community Mental Health Nurse:
- Holding a caseload of patients with organic and functional presentations under CPA and NCPA
- Assessing and managing risk.
- Using Dialog+ where possible and Recovery Care Planning with service users and carers.
- Managing your own diary and planning your day.
- Attending MDT meetings and ward review meetings.
- Duty working 2 half days per week.
- Communicate effectively through notes on Lorenzo and letters to GPs and other involved parties.
- Administering depot medication. (if appropriate)
- There is an opportunity to learn to take ECG readings and to learn phlebotomy.
Requirements of the Community Mental Health Nurse:
- Degree or equivalent in Mental Health Nursing
- Experience working as a Community Psychiatric Nurse
- NMC Registration
- Knowledge of dementia and of functional illness in older people
- Experience of duty work an advantage- being able to respond to urgent calls
- Ability to take ECG an advantage but not essential
Contact:
This Community Mental Health Nurse job is advertised by Andrew Cleeve; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from: 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 Community Psychiatric Nurse role as we need to meet our clients requirements.
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.
