An Amazing Opportunity: Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) Change lives!
We are looking for the very best mental health practitioner to work with our client in East of England. If you are looking for your next challenge, congratulations! You have just found it!
Here are the top-level details:
* Job Title: Mental Health Practitioner
* Band 6
* Location: Cambridge
* Duration: 3 months
* 9-5 Monday to Friday
* Start Date: ASAP
* Rate of pay: GBP26 p/h umbrella days
* Must hold a Valid Full UK Drivers License
A Day in the Life in an Older Adult Team:
As a Mental Health Practitioner specialising in adults, you will play a crucial role in delivering NHS community mental health services. Your responsibilities will include:
* Offering interventions, advice, and support on the telephone and undertaking first response face-to-face crisis assessments in various settings.
* Ensuring that service users receive the most appropriate care and treatment following triage and assessment, referring to the most appropriate mental health provision or signposting to relevant services.
* Providing intensive community-based treatment/support services as an alternative to in-patient admission, brief interventions, or pathway planning.
* Delivering the gatekeeping function for admission to inpatient mental health units and offering in-reach work in wards to facilitate discharges.
* Planning, implementing, and evaluating programmes of care for clients in crisis with acute mental health problems in the community, and coordinating activities with other professionals and agencies.
* Providing advice, support, and information to service users, carers, GPs, and other professionals requesting information regarding a crisis situation.
* Contributing to current exciting service development initiatives and helping implement the service's aims and objectives.
* Maintaining team systems and processes for effective team and service provision, including outcome measures and audit under the direction of the Senior Practitioners.
* Promoting and using evidence-based practice through the provision of clinical advice and support; acting as a role model; and providing education and training where appropriate.
* Liaising closely with carers, both statutory and non-statutory services, emergency services, and 3rd sector services.
* Working closely with local services Single Point of Access providing rapid response to mental health crisis situations where necessary and appropriate to decrease the number of unnecessary presentations to A&E.
* Delivering supervision for junior colleagues.
Requirements and Qualifications Required for this Role:
* Current and valid registration with the NMC.
* Proven experience within a CMHT or community mental health experience.
* Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
* Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
* Commitment to providing high-quality patient care.
* Members of staff should be drivers and have Crisis Team or Psych Liaison experience.
How to Apply:
If this job sounds perfect for you, please call our team on (phone number removed).
You could also send your CV to (url removed) to find out more about other Mental Health Nursing roles we have available.
Not available for this position? Recommend a friend or colleague! We operate a simple and transparent scheme where we pay you GBP250 for a successful placement (qualifying period applies).
About Us:
Hunter Gatherer Mental Health are one of the UK’s leading specialist Mental Health recruitment agencies.
Our job is to listen, respond, and support you in your career goals. To understand your needs and partner with you to help you achieve them. We’ll always be by your side finding you the right job at the right time, with friendly, caring service.
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