Community Mental Health Nurse

Job Description

A vacancy has arisen for an experienced mental health nurse in the Dementia Outreach Team.The team provides a service across Forth Valley and is based at Airth Health Centre.We are looking for a registered mental health nurse with previous post registration experience, and the required knowledge and skills to work at Expertise Level on the Promoting Excellence Framework. This should include experience in an acute or community mental health setting. You should also have experience of mentoring and supervision of junior staff.Highly developed communication and assessment skills are essential and you should have the specialist knowledge and clinical competencies required to plan the provision and evaluation of evidence based interventions for people with dementia including support to families. You will also be expected to provide advice, support and guidance to a variety of other agencies/partners, therefore experience of joint working and a knowledge and understanding of current Mental Health, Adults with Incapacity and Community Care legislation is necessary. Evidence of continued professional development in mental health nursing in Older Adults is required.Enquiries to Shona Mackie, Team Leader on.The duties of this post require the successful candidate to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. More information on this scheme can be found atPlease note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail, therefore please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).NHS Forth Valley is positive about disabled people and is committed to offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. Please contact the Recruitment Office onif there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to assist you with your application and/or interview.