Community Psychiatric Nurse
Job Description
Job title: Community Psychiatric Nurse
Company: Sanctuary Personnel
Job description: Sanctuary Personnel is currently looking for an experienced Band 5 Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) to take on a new ongoing contract role.
Location: Across Hertfordshire
Pay Rate: £25.50 per hour (assignment rate):
Contract Type: Locum, 6-month contract
Main Duties:
- To manage a patient caseload, identified in consultation with medical, nursing and other professions and agreed by the CMHT Team Leader.
- To establish and maintain effective individualised nursing and social care by assessment of patient’s problems; planning; implementation and evaluation of agreed interventions; clear and concise documentation of individualised client care and use of electronic patient record systems.
- To be aware of the physical needs of people with mental health problems and refer physical conditions on as appropriate.
- Establish therapeutic relationships with individual clients, relatives and carers.
- Be responsible for the administration, carriage and storage of medication in accordance with relevant Trust policies. To ensure safe disposal of equipment used in the Community e.g. syringes, needles, in accordance with Trust policies.
- Be responsible for the administration of prescribed medical treatments and monitoring effects in accordance with clinical procedures adopted by the Trust.
- Use research findings in designing nursing care programmes and develop awareness of the significance of nursing research and wider evidence based practice in community mental health care.
- Participate and be responsible for running nurse led clinics e.g. Clozapine.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the needs of carers of patients with mental health problems and develop strategies to meet those needs; e.g. self-help groups, respite care, Carers Act.
- Ensure that the principle of continuity of care is maintained and that appropriate plans are made for client’s discharge and transfer from the clinical areas in line with Care Programme Approach (including acting as care coordinator), Community Care Act 1990 and Discharge Policies and the National Service Framework for Mental Health.
- To have a working knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 and subsequent legislation as it affects the client group.
- To participate in the Trust’s adverse incidents reporting systems and comply with the Trust’s procedure and techniques for managing risks.
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 Alex Meek; 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 4.8/5 and over 500+ 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.
Expected salary:
Location: Hertfordshire
