NHS Mental Health Nurse – Older Adults Deputy Team Manager
Job Description
Global Healthcare Jobs is currently looking for an experienced Band 7 Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) to take on a new ongoing contract role as Deputy Manager within the Older Adults Community Team in High Wycombe.
Location: Saffron House, High Wycombe.
Pay Rate: £36 per hour (assignment rate).
Contract Type: Locum, 6-month ongoing.
Working Hours:
- 37.5 hours per week.
- Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm shifts.
- Flexible working hours will be considered for the right candidate.
Main Duties:
- Deputise for OAMHT manager when required.
- Line manage and co-ordinate a group of staff working in the OAMHT.
- Have responsibility for a particular service area (Duty, Memory Clinic and CMHT) as well as a clinical lead responsibility.
- Be responsible for the day-to-day operations of services, ensuring high standards of practice with efficient and effective use of resources, achieving appropriate outcomes for the service user.
- Act as care coordinator within the Care Programme Approach, working with a small number of patients with particularly complex needs.
- Participate as a member of the on-call duty manager rota which will require some working on weekends.
- Undertake clinical investigations and complete good clinical reports in a timely manner.
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to assess, plan and implement programmes of intervention specific to the needs of individual or groups of patients and their carers.
- Undertake highly complex assessments, including the assessment of risk, identify needs and develop care plans in partnership with patients and carers based on evidence-based practice.
Requirements of the Community Psychiatric Nurse:
- Degree or equivalent in Mental Health Nursing.
- Experience working as a Mental Health Nurse, including in front of house/crisis/home treatment teams.
- NMC Registration.
- Available to start as soon as possible.
Contact:
This Band 7 Community Psychiatric Nurse job is advertised by Deane Garrard; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from: PIP Assessors, Ward Managers, Deputy Ward Managers, CAMHS Practitioners, 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 Mental Health Nurse role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements.
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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 your work placement.
