Community Mental Health Nurse - Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP)

Location Hadleigh
Job type Contract
Salary £26.28 - 26.28 per hour
Consultant Andrew Cleeve
Call +44 7700 176524
Reference 188706

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 300 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Community Mental Health Nurse to take on a new ongoing contract role.

Community Mental Health Nurse Pay Rate: £26.28 per hour (assignment rate)

Location: Hadleigh, Essex

Contract Type: Locum 3 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 Mental Health Nurse:

  • The Early Intervention in Psychosis Team is a multi-professional community team providing a range of mental health and social care interventions to people between the ages of 14-65 years with a first episode of psychosis
  • Some of your typical duties as a Care Coordinator may include (but are not limited to):
  • Triaging and assessment of new referrals of clients, using specialist assessment tools such as the Comprehensive Assessment of At Risk Mental States (CAARMS)
  • Coordinating the care and assessment under the Care Programme Approach (CPA) of a designated caseload
  • Creating and continually updating person-centred careplans and building therapeutic relationships with your clients.
  • Continually assess risk and design personalised risk management plans
  • Facilitate referral to crisis teams or admission to hospital where necessary, plus providing presence and involvement in inpatient careplan and discharge planning.
  • Administer long-acting anti-psychotic depot injections in a community setting
  • Monitoring of medication adherence and any potential side-effects. Organising medical reviews when indicated.
  • Identify any possible safeguarding concerns and be responsible for the completion of safeguarding investigations.
  • Ensure that the requirements of the Mental Health Act 1983 are observed, adhered to and implemented
  • Support the promotion of carer and service user involvement within the service and for its provision plus ensuring carer’s needs are identified and responded to.

Requirements of the Community Mental Health Nurse:

  • Degree or equivalent in Mental Health Nursing
  • Experience working as a Community Psychiatric Nurse
  • NMC Registration
  • Experience working in an NHS setting

Contact:

This 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: 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.