NHS Community Mental Health Nurse (CPN)
Job Description
Job title: NHS Community Mental Health Nurse (CPN)
Company: Sanctuary Personnel
Job description: Sanctuary Personnel is currently looking for an experienced Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse (CPN) to take on a new ongoing contract role.
Location: Stowmarket
Pay Rate: £24.58 – £25.58 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract Type: Locum, 3-month contract
Duties:
- Be accountable for own professional actions
- Participate in mental health promotion
- Provide the appropriate interventions to patients with mental illness (incorporating NICE Guidelines)
- Effective personal planning and organisation of daily work load
- Flexible working and manage own working time effectively and accordingly to service demands
- Practice autonomously in making clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing and providing a high quality of care
- Maintain respectful, effective professional interpersonal relationships with others
- Attend all mandatory training as required and to undertake further training and updating as required to carry out the role
- Initiate, create and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, ensuring that practice is patient centred
- Promote the involvement of service users and carers in the development of the care pathway
- Ensuring that all patients are given full explanation of their care pathway/treatment options and no decision is taken forward without their consent
Requirements of the Community Mental Health Nurse:
- Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent Mentorship qualification or ENB 998
- Relevant registration
- Ongoing professional development working towards degree level Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice
- Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
- Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
- Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions
- Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages
- Excellent communication skills
- Competent assessment skills
- Effective analytical and decision-making skills
- Care planning skills
- Risk assessment knowledge and skills
- Competent and effective treatment skills
- Able to effectively prioritise own work load
- Basic computer skills including use of email/internet
- Satisfactory verbal and written language skills
- Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects
- Knowledge of psychosocial interventions
- An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines (Government initiative)
- Ability to travel independently
Contact:
This Band 6 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: 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: Stowmarket, Suffolk
