Community Psychiatric Nurse

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Wakefield seeks a registered mental health nurse. The role involves managing a caseload, promoting independence, and maintaining clinical standards. Candidates should be enthusiastic about providing holistic support to individuals with complex needs. This position offers an opportunity to work in a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to improving community health.

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse qualifications.
• Enthusiasm for supporting people and their families.
• Ability to manage medication and care plans.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of individuals with care plans.
• Ensure safe custody and administration of medication.
• Maintain communication with multi-disciplinary teams.

Skills

Person-centred approach

Excellent communication

Clinical work standards

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has become available to join our integrated multi-disciplinary team on a fixed term contract until 31/03/2026. The enhanced team west is looking for a registered mental health nurse who is enthusiastic in wanting to support people and their families/carers in a holistic way in the community, for those people who have complex needs.

The successful candidate will offer a person-centred approach to promote independence, well-being and support for people to live a fulfilling life in the community. The successful candidate will maintain a high standard of clinical work when carrying out nursing procedures.

Responsibilities

• Have a caseload of people with individual care plans and positive risk management with support and input from specialist practitioners.
• Be responsible for the safe custody of medication, including checking, administration and transportation of medication.
• Ensure compliance with the Trust policy and procedure and clinical governance framework.
• Knowledge and compliance with the Lone working policy.
• Work in a multi-disciplinary team and maintain excellent communication with team colleagues and other services.
• Be willing to work some weekends as the team provides a seven-day service.
• Participate in the role of team duty, including delegation of daily tasks and supporting the team\'s flexible assertive community treatment approach (FACT).
• Champion service user safety and dignity and drive continuous improvement.
• All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
• We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. We strongly discourage this and will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.

About the Trust

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means we\'re accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we\'re run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.