Community Psychiatric Nurse - Assessment and Treatment

Location Aylesbury
Job type Contract
Salary £26 per hour
Consultant Owen Dunn
Call +44 333 0052 1808
Reference 222588

Sanctuary Personnel is currently looking for an experienced Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) to take on a new ongoing contract role within the Assessment and Treatment Team.

Location: Aylesbury

Pay Rate: £26 per hour (assignment rate):

Contract Type: Locum, 6-month contract/ongoing block booking.

Working hours: Monday – Friday, 37.5 hours per week (hours flexible between 8am and 8pm). Part time will be considered.

Main Duties:

  • Autonomous Care: Act as an independent practitioner, conducting specialist nursing assessments in collaboration with service users and their families/carers, and sharing findings with the wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
  • Collaborative Care Planning: Work closely with service users and their families/carers to develop personalised treatment plans that ensure safety, promote well-being, and foster independence. This may involve partnering with external agencies.
  • Deliver Evidence-Based Interventions: Provide interventions guided by NICE recommendations to support recovery and prevent relapse across various settings.
  • Ongoing Care Monitoring: Regularly review treatment outcomes, assist service users in completing clinical outcome measures, and adjust care plans as needed.
  • Physical Health Management: Apply knowledge of common physical health conditions to perform cardiometabolic assessments.
  • Medication Expertise: Maintain extensive knowledge of medications, their side effects, and management, ensuring adherence to NMC guidelines and Trust policies.
  • Consultation and Collaboration: Provide expert consultation in multi-agency meetings, forums, and services to ensure holistic care.
  • Duty Provision: Contribute to the team’s duty roster, ensuring consistent service delivery.

Requirements of the Community Psychiatric Nurse:

  • Degree or equivalent in Mental Health Nursing
  • Experience working as a Mental Health Nurse
  • NMC Registration

Contact:

This Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse job is advertised by Owen Dunn; 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.

Sanctuary Personnel are a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews.

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.

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