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 Band 6 EIS Community Mental Health Nurse to take on a new Locum role.
Community Mental Health Nurse Pay Rate: £28 per hour (assignment rate)
Location: Mitcham - Early Intervention Service
Contract Type: Locum - Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00
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:
- Accountable for the co-ordination of care plans for people who are in the early stages of psychotic illness between the ages of 17-65.
- Work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Assess health and social care needs and negotiate care plans with service users and their carers, remaining objective when working with diagnostic uncertainty.
- Undertake risk assessments according to Trust policy.
- Ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies, within the CPA structure.
- Engage service users and carers assertively and offer care/interventions within the least restrictive setting in normal community environments.
- Provide a service sensitive to age, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability.
- Offer a range of evidence based psycho-social interventions and proactive risk management approaches to help the service user and their family to reduce and manage symptoms, high risk behaviour and other disabling effects of psychosis and enable, as far as possible, full and sustained recovery.
- Ensure Trust, Merton & Sutton Borough Child Protection Guidelines and procedures are fully understood by self and others.
- Ensure the safety needs of children are met at all times and take appropriate action when a child is felt to be at risk or in need.
- Monitor treatment, support concordance and ensure prompt action is taken to alleviate unwanted effects.
- Provide access to and ongoing psycho-education regarding first episode psychosis to service users and families.
- Ensure basic needs are addressed i.e. housing, income, support in accessing education or training etc.
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 Deane Garrard; 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.
