Community Practitioner – Older Adults CMHT
Job Description
Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse to take on a new ongoing contract role within an older adults community mental health team (CMHT).
Community Mental Health Nurse Pay Rate: £26 per hour (assignment rate)
Location: Lambeth
Contract Type: Locum, 3-Months and Full-time – 37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
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:
- Working autonomously within the parameters of the role leading and supporting junior staff and wider care team to implement the delivery of quality nursing care, contributing to the physical, psychological, social, recreational and spiritual care in a recovery-focused way through therapeutic engagement and activities, and taking steps to address any issues that arise
- Implementing the principles of ‘recovery’: encouraging and supporting service users to engage with healthy lifestyles, facilitating psychosocial activities and other activities of their interest. Where appropriate contributing to psychological interventions
- Reporting, without delay, any safety or security concerns to maintain the safety of service users, carers, staff and others in line with Trust policy
- Supporting junior staff to respond appropriately if there are any significant factors, or incidents relating to the safeguarding service user
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
- Community experience is essential
- Skills in clinical assessment/baseline mental health assessment
- Skills in risk assessment and risk management and crisis management
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.
