Sanctuary Personnel is currently looking for an experienced Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse (CPN) to take on a new ongoing contract role within the Early Intervention Team.
Location: Sutton
Pay Rate: £30 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract Type: Locum, 3-month contract
Duties:
- Be accountable for the co-ordination of care plans for people who are in the early stages of psychotic illness between the ages of 17-65
- Work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Assess health and social care needs and negotiate care plans with service users and their carers, remaining objective when working with diagnostic uncertainty
- Undertake risk assessments according to policy
- Ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies, within the CPA structure
- Engage service users and carers assertively and offer care/interventions within the least restrictive setting in normal community environments
- Provide a service sensitive to age, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability
- Offer a range of evidence based psycho-social interventions and proactive risk management approaches to help the service user and their family to reduce and manage symptoms, high risk behaviour and other disabling effects of psychosis and enable, as far as possible, full and sustained recovery
- Ensure guidelines and procedures are fully understood by self and others
- Ensure the safety needs of children are met at all times and take appropriate action when a child is felt to be at risk or in need
Requirements of the Community Mental Health Nurse:
- Degree or equivalent in Mental Health Nursing
- NMC Registration
- Recognise the developmental needs of service users, and enable a vocational/educational assessment within a specified time of their contact with the service, and to ensure the service user is supported in progressing plans made for education, training or employment
- Evidence of post qualification training/education
- Experience of care coordination
- Demonstrable experience of working with people who experience serious ongoing mental health problems
- Experience of assessing and managing crisis in people with severe mental health problems
- Knowledge of Mental Health Law & NHS and Community Care Act 1990
- Knowledge of our business and how it supports patient care
- Ability to maintain and enhance effective working relationships both internally and externally, with a range of professionals and agencies
- Ability to assist the Manager to recruit, manage, motivate, supervise, appraise and develop staff
- Ability to plan, allocate and evaluate own work and develop self to enhance performance
Contact:
This Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse job is advertised by Deane Garrard; 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.
