Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse

Job summary

Hello! My name is Dawn and Im the health team manager for the Community Mental Health Team for Older People, East, which is based at Baghill Health and Wellbeing centre, Pontefract within a hub based environment shared with a number of community Mental health teams. We have an exciting opportunity for a full time, band 6 CPN to join our multidisciplinary team. We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, and friendly individual who shares the same values as the team, who puts service users first and in the centre of their care.

The OPS CMHT is an integrated team, employing both NHS and Council staff members. We work as an MDT made up of nurses, social workers, support workers, psychologists, medics and admin staff. We work collaboratively with service users to provide treatment based on the service users needs.

We are a friendly, open, and supportive team, valuing supervision and development of all staff.

The service hours are 8.30 am 16:30 pm

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will manage a caseload of service users, with a range of diagnoses and needs. They will be responsible for arranging care, liaison with other services and managing and reviewing care plans and risk assessments, ensuring these are done collaboratively and in a recovery focused manner. The successful candidate will also be able to offer evidence based clinical decisions and treatment options. You must be able to work autonomously and as part of a team.

The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of psychotropic medications, medication management and be confident in the administration of depot injections. They will be able to offer support and advise to other disciplines within the team and be confident in their decision making. They will also support in the learning and development of students taking on the practice supervisor and assessor roles for students.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.

At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

Job responsibilities

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 were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were 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.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.