NHS Community Mental Health Nurse CPN

Job Description

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated & award winning recruitment agency is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse (CPN) to take on a new ongoing contract role.Community Mental Health Nurse Pay Rate:£35 per hour (assignment rate)Location:BristolContract Type:4-month contractBenefits 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 arent available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects weve recently recruited to.
• £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncappedT&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

Shift Pattern:

• This role will necessitate working rotational shift patterns including nights

Duties:

• Providing appropriate, effective interventions and treatments to people with a range of mental health needs, and their carers (including friends and relatives) and their supporters in the community, enabling and assisting them to meet daily health, socialcare and well being needs, in line with personal recovery goals, and facilitating engagement with mainstream services
• Work autonomously to undertake emergency assessment in a wide range of locations, planning and delivering defined, intensive, specialist interventions in line with the CPA framework to people with severe and enduring mental health needs, who maybe distressedand in crisis
• Work alongside other services to plan, deliver and review effective wrap around intensive interventions to manage risk and prevent hospital admission for those with the most complex needs
• Act as Care/Recovery coordinator or associate Care/Recovery coordinator as required

Requirements of the Community Mental Health Nurse:

• Diploma level/Degree in relevant health/social care profession, eg RMN, OT, Social Worker
• Experience working as a Community Psychiatric Nurse
• Current relevant registration with the NMC or HCPC and commitment to CPD
• Experience working in an NHS setting
• Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for contributing to the development of others, by making use of and providing, effective feedback, supervision, coaching and appraisal
• Be familiar with the Trusts approach to risk management, take a risk management approach to their own work and take responsibility for the management of the risks they own
• Demonstrates substantial post-registration experience gained working in a range of front- line adult mental health services, undertaking assessment and delivering interventions
• Is able to deliver from a range of possible key therapeutic interventions CBT, Psychosocial interventions, Family Interventions, DBT approaches
• Demonstrates a developed understanding of the recovery principles, and the role of secondary mental health services in the delivery of care
• Experience of undertaking carers assessments
• Demonstrates substantial experience of, and relevant professional practice qualification in mentoring/assessing students and learners
• Demonstrates substantial experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies
• Demonstrates substantial experience of supervising others, monitoring their performance appraisal and ensuring delivery of activity
• Able to articulate a detailed understanding of the relevant legal frameworks/legislation including CPA process, Mental Health Act , Mental Capacity Act, and Safeguarding
• Highly developed verbal communication skills, able to engage effectively with people at all levels even when a more assertive approach is needed
• Highly developed active listening skills, which allow for reframing and testing of understanding
• Highly developed written communication skills, with experience of compiling and sorting notes and reports, establishing statistical data and analysing information
• Substantially developed IT skills including competent use of Microsoft Office, and the use of electronic record keeping systems
• Demonstrates a willingness to embrace new technology and processes
• Mobile with the facility to move quickly across a geographically dispersed area with limited access to public transport

Contact:This Community Mental Health Nurse job is advertised by Connor Knight-Robey; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.We welcome applications from: Community Mental Health Nurse, Mental Health Nurse, Nurse, Psychiatric Nurse & Community Nurse as we have vacancies that match with these job titles. Online remote nurse jobs are available from time to time so please get intouch.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 youthroughout the process and into you work placement.