Community Psychiatric Nurse

Leicestershire Partnership; Coalville; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension contribution

27 days holiday starting

Free onsite parking

Health and Wellbeing Support

Job summary

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust in North West Leicestershire is seeking an experienced Mental Health Nurse to join the Community Psychiatric Nurse team at Band 6. The post involves conducting home visits and clinic sessions, handling autonomous caseloads and working within a multidisciplinary MDT to deliver evidence-based interventions.

Applicants must be a qualified Mental Health Nurse registered with the NMC, hold a full UK driving licence, and be prepared to work across community

Qualifications

• Qualified Mental Health Nurse registered with the NMC/Professional Health Council.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a car for work.

Responsibilities

• Organise and manage your own caseload as an autonomous practitioner within a multidisciplinary team.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments and develop treatment plans for adults 18–65.
• Provide leadership, supervision and training to junior staff and students where required.
• Deliver evidence-based interventions and contribute to risk management and care planning.

Skills

Mental health nursing

Education

NMC-registered Mental Health Nurse

Job description

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

Community Psychiatric Nurse - Band 6 (North West Leicestershire)

It is an exciting time for mental health services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Our community mental health offer is undergoing a major transformation and we are searching for people with a range of skills and a passion to deliver great mental health services.

We currently have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Mental Health Nurse to apply for Band 6 CPN post in the North West Leicestershire Neighbourhood Team. The Neighbourhood Team is part of secondary care services, providing assessments and treatment packages for a range of service users aged 18-65 years, with complex mental health needs.

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. We are a dynamic, supportive team who value clinical supervision alongside psychology support for complex cases.

You will visit people in their own homes and communities as well as running clinics at the team base. You will need to have experience of post-registration work, ideally with this client group.

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

Contact Details:
Vicky Pettit, [e-mail], 01530 453800

Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)

The successful candidate will be responsible for organising and planning own caseload as an autonomous practitioner and monitoring those of other team members to meet patient priorities and service needs. To also work in a multi-disciplinary framework and to prioritise and organise workload effectively and use time management skills which may result in the requirement to readjust plans as situations change/arise such as crisis needs of patients/tribunal reports and Mental Health Act meetings.

The post holder will respond to referrals from Primary care, outpatient and ward settings by undertaking comprehensive assessments of patients who may have complex needs (Mental Health, physical, emotional & psychosocial) using investigative, analytical and clinical reasoning skills to provide accurate reports of their condition and to feed this back to the professionals involved in their care both written and verbally.

To receive clinical supervision on a monthly basis and supervise and co-ordinate less experienced staff and students working with the post holder, ensuring the standards of good practice are consistently achieved through leadership and supervision whilst providing advice, training and education to other members of the MDT/colleagues regarding nursing and evidence based interventions.

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.