Sanctuary Personnel is currently looking for an experienced Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse (CPN) to take on a new ongoing contract role.
Location: Ipswich
Pay Rate: £26.28 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract Type: Locum, 3-month contract
Duties:
- The assessment and appropriate treatment of people presenting with mental health problems, working within a multidisciplinary team
- Undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care with appropriate supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multi-disciplinary and multi- agency environment
- Managing a caseload and the provision of Mental Health Care services to people with mental health care needs
- Support and advising to other health care professionals
- Support aspects of service development
- Provide an appropriate learning environment for relevant UEA students
- Be responsible for accurate mental health clustering of all patients on admission, discharge and at review
- Ensure all mental health clustering information is passed onto other teams or services on transfer of patients
- Ensure the accuracy and quality of mental health clustering activity within the team
- Responsible for the line management of identified members of the service
- Support the development of effective mental health care pathways within the service
- Support to service evaluation and audit systems
- Support review/development of service wide policies and protocols
- Support the establishment of partnerships and networks with key stakeholders
- Deputise for Line Manager as required
- Be accountable for own professional actions
- Participate in mental health promotion
- Provide the appropriate interventions to patients with mental illness (incorporating NICE Guidelines)
- Provide training and support for colleagues, including non-statutory and statutory agencies
Requirements of the Community Mental Health Nurse:
- Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent
- Effective personal planning and organisation of daily work load
- Mentorship qualification or ENB 998
- Willingness to train to become Sign-off Mentor
- Ongoing professional development working towards degree level
- Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice
- Good to great management course, or equivalent
- 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
- Experience in delivering group based interventions
- Experience in supporting service development
- PMA Training
- Prevention and Management of Suicide training
- Medicine Management Safeguarding training
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.
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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.
