Sanctuary Personnel is currently looking for an experienced Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) to take on a new ongoing contract role within the Early Intervention Team.
Location: Sutton
Pay Rate: £30 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract Type: Locum, 6-month contract/ongoing block booking.
Working hours: Monday – Friday, 37.5 hours per week (hours flexible between 8am and 8pm). Part time will be considered.
Main Duties:
To be accountable for the co-ordination of care plans for people who are in the early stages of psychotic illness between the ages of 17-65.
To work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
To assess health and social care needs and negotiate care plans with service users and their carers, remaining objective when working with diagnostic uncertainty.
To undertake risk assessments according to Trust policy.
To ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies, within the CPA structure.
To engage service users and carers assertively and offer care/interventions within the least restrictive setting in normal community environments.
To provide a service sensitive to age, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability.
To offer a range of evidence based psycho-social interventions and proactive risk management approaches to help the service user and their family to reduce and manage symptoms, high risk be...