Community Mental Health Nurse – First Response Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and 300 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Community Mental Health Nurse to take on a new ongoing contract role.

Community Mental Health Nurse Pay Rate: £28.17 per hour (assignment rate)

Location: First Response Team, Basildon Resource Centre

Contract Type: Locum 3 month contract

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:

• To establish and maintain effective individualised care using the Care Programme
• Approach (CPA) by:-
• a) Undertaking assessment of risk and formulating care plans to manage and minimise risk.
• b) Planning, implementing and reviewing interventions designed to meet assessed needs.
• c) Providing advice and information to service users, their carers and their families in order to alleviate distress and work in partnership, as far as possible, with all the available support systems.
• d0 Providing clear, accurate and concise documentation of the service user’s care as required by the Trusts Care Programme Approach (CPA) Policy.
• To participate in team meetings, initiating and discussing new methods/models of care and participate in the introduction of research or trails within the area.
• Seek to establish a therapeutic relationship with individual clients and their families.
• Ensure effective and confidential communication between all care professionals.
• Provide significant data governing client care and treatment by:-
• a. Participating in informal or formal case conferences and discussions.
• b. Maintaining a secure system of record keeping and information exchange
• c. Establishing regular written reviews of progress
• d. Ensure that information is recorded on the client information database.
• Develop close links with relatives/carers and ensure that effective communication takes place especially when clients are admitted or being prepared for discharge from hospital and that all appropriate agencies are informed, so that follow up care can take place.
• Advise the manager and Professional Nursing Advisor on all breaches of nursing professional conduct as required by the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Code of Professional Conduct.
• Liaise with the Manager to ensure that all (Eput) Essex Partnership University
• Trust policies and procedures are communicated, implemented and developed within the area.
• Participate in professional supervision on all allocated cases.
• Take on clinical work commensurate with experience and skills, in discussion with supervisor, and senior staff.
• Liaise and work in partnership with the voluntary sector, maintaining a close relationship for the benefit of our mutual client group.
• Out of hours and weekend working may be required according to the needs of the service,
• Any other duties as appropriate to the grade as may be requested eg Duty.

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 Andrew Cleeve; 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.