Community Mental Health Practitioner – Single Point Of Access (SPA)

January 11, 2024
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Job Description

Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner to take on a new ongoing contract role within a single point of access (SPA) setting.

Community Mental Health Practitioner Pay Rate: £26 per hour (assignment rate)

Location: Brixton, Greater London

Contract Type: Locum, 3-Months and Full-time – 37.5 hours per week, 5 days a week, rotating roster including early, lates and nights

Working Arrangements: Staff will be expected to be in the office between 2-3 days per week and the rest working from home (WFH)

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:

  • Assess the physical and mental well-being needs, plan, implement, evaluate and monitor care in collaboration with the service user, carers, and other members of the multidisciplinary team
  • Ensure appropriate and up to date Risk assessments and care plans are available for service users attending the clinic
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the distress caused by social and personal consequences of mental illness for service users and their carers
  • Work within policy, professional and legal frameworks at all times. This requires knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct, risk assessment and child protection protocols, Mental Health Act, CPA, and Trust clinical policies
  • Actively encourage service users to work towards self-determination and freedom of choice within legal, ethical and professional constraints

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
  • Enhanced DBS 

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.