NHS Mental Health Nurse Prescriber – CAMHS

Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 7 Mental Health Nurse Prescriber to take on a new ongoing contract role.

Mental Health Nurse Prescriber Pay Rate: £36 per hour (assignment rate)

Location: Oxford

Contract Type: Initial 3 month contract

Shift Pattern: 22.5 hours per week, 3 days, 9am-5pm shifts

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 Mental Health Nurse Prescriber:

• Carry out non-medical prescribing supported through Governance framework and in adherence to agreed policy. Undertake annual audit of prescribing practices
• Maintain relevant clinical and pharmaceutical knowledge, critically appraise, and apply information in practice.
• Consult with patients, diagnose, and generate treatment options and follow- up plans, where applicable, within clinical management plans.
• Prescribe safely and effectively, acknowledging own limitations and scope of practice.
• Work within Trust and local policies that guide prescribing practice.
• Participate in, and use National Prescribing Centre competency framework, to undertake regular audit and review, of prescribing practice and medicines management.
• Understand the mode of action and pharmacology of medicines and how these medications are altered e.g., by age, renal or hepatic impairment and how this affects dosage.
• Ensure routine monitoring of physical health of children and young people (e.g., height, weight, BP) and liaise with other professionals as appropriate, including making referrals and/or request further tests.
• Assess risk and benefits to the child or young person of taking or not taking medication, considering the potential for unwanted affects e.g., allergies, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions and contra indications.
• Support the duty function of the service as required.

Requirements of the Mental Health Nurse Prescriber:

• Degree or equivalent in Mental Health Nursing
• Experience working as a Community Psychiatric Nurse
• NMC Registration
• Experience working in an NHS setting

Contact:

This Band 7 Mental Health Nurse Prescriber 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.