Sanctuary Personnel is currently looking for an experienced Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse (CPN) to take on a new ongoing contract role.
Location: London. Working across sites in South West London.
Pay Rate: £24.87 - £35.00 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract Type: Locum, 3-month contract
Shift Pattern: 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday, 09:00 am - 17:00 pm)
Duties:
- Get to know all patients on the team’s caseload, and to review those on their personal caseload at the frequency agreed by the team
- Plan, implement and evaluate nursing interventions delivered in the community, and participating in multidisciplinary care plans
- Keep in contact with patients’ relatives, friends, carers and professionals in other agencies as appropriate
- Administrate, order and maintain a stock of medication and other medical sundries, in accordance with relevant policies and procedures
- Co-ordinate the care of those patients for whom the CPN is the nominated care co-ordinator
- Act as social supervisor for those patients for whom the CPN is the nominated social supervisor, including producing pro-forma reports for the Ministry of Justice (after receiving appropriate training, if necessary)
- Respond, sometimes at short notice, to requests to see the team’s patients either individually or jointly with other team members (e.g. when a patient is in the red zone)
- Attend and participate in all daily team zoning meetings unless absent by prior arrangement
- Attend CPA meetings or Tribunals where appropriate
Requirements of the Community Mental Health Nurse:
- Degree or equivalent in Mental Health Nursing
- NMC Registration
- Be contactable by mobile telephone or other agreed method at all times during working hours
- Communicate/liaise effectively within relevant agencies to ensure that an integrated programmed of care is provided throughout
- Be able to manage medication in accordance with the Policy and the NMC Standards for administration of drugs
- Demonstrable experience of working with people who experience serious ongoing mental health problems
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of assessing and managing crisis with those with a severe mental illness
- Evidence of continuing Professional Development
Contact:
This Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse job is advertised by Deane Garrard; 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.
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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.
