Our clients are urgently seeking to recruit a
Locum Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse to join their Community Mental Health Team.
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm
Job overview
The post-holder will conduct assessments of newly referred adults to the Community Mental Health Team. They will undertake the responsibilities of a Mental Health Practitioner within the Care Programme Approach for a defined caseload of service users and their carers. They will provide evidence-based psychosocial interventions and will focus on engagement, recovery and social inclusion as well as addressing physical health care needs.
The successful candidate will be an experienced registered professional who is able to demonstrate a specific interest in working with people with psychosis and personality disorders.
Main duties of the job
To manage a caseload of mental health service-users with complex needs as lead professional and care co-ordinator under the CPA process.
To use evidence-based and client-centred principles to assess needs and to plan, implement and evaluate health and social care interventions
To facilitate flow through the service and timely step-down to low intensity services and primary care.
To provide leadership for junior staff through supervision and appraisal.
To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of MDT services, holding personal responsibility for defined projects and areas of responsibility.
To mentor and supervise students on practice placements
To carry out MDT activities e.g. coordinating meetings and undertaking duty responsibilities
To provide profession-specific interventions for the wider team as required and in line with NICE guidelines
To offer/provide timely NICE concordant interventions to clients with FEP and their carers
To participate in team training and mandatory training and ongoing professional development.