Community Psychiatric Nurse -Community Forensics Team

January 24, 2024

Job Description


Job title: Community Psychiatric Nurse -Community Forensics Team

Company: Sanctuary Personnel

Job description: 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 Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) to take on a new ongoing contract role.

Community Psychiatric Nurse Pay Rate: £30 per hour (assignment rate)

Location: Croydon, Greater London

Contract Type: CLocum 6 month contract

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 Psychiatric Nurse:

  • Formulating and documenting a plan of nursing care where possible in partnership with Service Users, carers, family and friends including personal choices/likes/dislikes/wishes
  • Evaluating and documenting the outcomes of nursing interventions
  • Personal care (bathing, dressing and grooming)
  • Nutrition and hydration (monitor and ensure adequate intake)
  • Emotional and social support
  • Pressure care
  • Leading and supporting junior staff to promote recovery
  • Community access/social inclusion (escorts)
  • Leading and supporting junior staff to risk assess and risk manage
  • Undertaking individual risk assessments as per Trust policy
  • Engaging in 1-1 sessions, listening, responding and reporting
  • Prevention and management of aggression and violence including providing hands on care to prevent injury to self and others using approved techniques such as PSTS/PMVA after undertaking appropriate training, assessment and deemed competent
  • Reducing Self-harm and promoting suicide prevention
  • Recognising service user health deterioration and taking action – monitoring physical health, checking vital signs such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration, temperature, saturation, blood glucose, glasgow coma scale. •

Requirements of the Community Psychiatric Nurse:

  • Degree or equivalent in Mental Health Nursing
  • Experience working as a mental health nurse
  • NMC Registration

Contact:

This Community Psychiatric 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 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.

Expected salary:

Location: Croydon, Greater London


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