NHS Forensic Community Mental Health Nurse (CPN)
Job Description
Job title: NHS Forensic Community Mental Health Nurse (CPN)
Company: Sanctuary Personnel
Job description: Sanctuary Personnel is currently looking for an experienced Band 6 Forensic Community Mental Health Nurse (CPN) to take on a new ongoing contract role.
Location: Oxford
Pay Rate: £32 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract Type: Locum, 3-month contract
Duties:
- Maintain the safe custody and control of medication
- Administer and monitor medication prescribed to service users
- Discuss medication with service user and carers and offer information and advice
- Psycho-educational family approaches
- Work with patients who exhibit negative symptoms such as poor motivation
- Assisting patients to meet their activities of daily living and helping them to attain their optimum functional level
- Play a vital role in crisis intervention and be a link figure to the multi-disciplinary team operating in the Forensic Service
- Work collaboratively and in partnership with other disciplines and agencies in meeting the needs of the patients
- Develop care plans to meet individual patient and their family/carers needs that are focussed on strengths, outcome based and promote service user empowerment to manage their health as much possible
- Manage and prioritise clinical time and caseload effectively
- Keep a diary of all visits, journeys and assessments on a daily basis and regularly update the team administrator any future activity
Requirements of the Forensic Community Mental Health Nurse:
- Degree or equivalent in Mental Health Nursing
- Experience working as a Mental Health Nurse
- NMC Registration
- Physical Health Skills – Knowledge of common physical health conditions and their management, and an ability to monitor physical health conditions and wellbeing
- Knowledge of medications and their effects, including side effects and the management of side effects
- Demonstrate a high level of personal skill and expertise in the delivery of care through individual and group work
- Have a comprehensive knowledge of existing resources available within Buckinghamshire and demonstrate effective use of these resources
- Demonstrate and develop excellent relational security skills for the purpose of robust risk assessment and management
- Demonstrate effective communication skills with people in an age appropriate way and those whose understanding may be impaired
Contact:
This Band 6 Forensic Community Mental Health 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: Oxford
