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
- Comp
Expected salary: £58 – 25.58 per hour
Location: Stowmarket, Suffolk
