Job Overview
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Community Psychiatric Nurse (City West) 3 Vacancies
Due to the reconfiguration of our City Community Mental Health Teams, we currently have several fantastic opportunities for experienced Mental Health Nurses to apply for a Band 6 CPN post and join us at City West CMHT. The CMHT is part of the secondary care services, providing assessments and treatment packages for a range of service users aged 18-65 years, with complex mental health needs. As part of the transformation of our community services we are developing close links with our local neighbourhoods and voluntary sector to enhance the care people are provided close to home.
The post holders will maintain a clinical case load and will need to work effectively in the multidisciplinary team to provide high quality mental health assessments, treatment programs and manage risk. This work will involve patients and their carers in the delivery of evidence based interventions/treatments, recovery focused work.
You will visit people in their own homes and communities as well as running clinics at the team base and other community venues. You will need to have experience of post-registration work, ideally with this client group.
We are a dynamic, supportive team who value clinical supervision alongside weekly group psychology supervision. In this forum we discuss complex cases, how to manage these and look at new initiatives in mental health.
You must be a qualified Mental Health Nurse registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council/Professional Health Council. You must hold a full UK driving licence and be able to use a car for work purposes.
We also offer:
* A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days
* Free onsite parking
* Access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached) such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages you can draw from to help support your work-life balance
* Health and Wellbeing Support
For further information please contact Marie Beeston, Emma Hopkins or Becky Lindsey on 0116 2953322
Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)
City West CMHT provide holistic and person-centred mental health services for people aged 18 - 65
The CMHT is a well-established multi-disciplinary team, consisting of Consultant Psychiatrists, Nurses and Healthcare Support Workers, Occupational Therapists and Psychologists. The teams provide face-to-face assessments and care for service users referred via Primary Care, In-patients and Crisis Teams.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the delivery of effective healthcare within the team, by performing comprehensive assessments of patient nursing needs, plan, implement and evaluate care delivery according to changing health care needs, taking responsibility for the care needs of individual and groups of clients/service users.
The key skills required for these roles include the ability to demonstrate excellent on-going assessment, risk assessment and problem-solving skills and excellent communication skills.
The post holder will collect, collate and fully accurately report patient information, maintaining accurate complete and contemporaneous nursing records in line with NMC and Trust standards. Involving clients/service users and carers / relatives in the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of care.
If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).
All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.
Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.