Care Coordinator - Community Psychiatric Nurse

Job overview

We are looking for a enthusiastic CPN to join our friendly Multi-disciplinary team.

You will require experience of working in a mental health settings and awareness of delivery of community mental health care.

You will hold and manage a caseload of people and have Care Coordinating responsibilities under the Care Program Approach Guidelines.

The team covers an ethnically and culturally diverse area, and you will have the opportunity to work with clients from a wide range of backgrounds, and with a wide range of psychosocial needs. By assessing your clients and their carers needs you will be able to access and sign post to a wide range of community resources and provider services available in the local area.

As we recognise the importance of supporting our staff to achieve an effective work-life balance and also maintain positive wellbeing, we work with staff to develop ways of supporting flexible working for them.

Main duties of the job

Assessments, care planning, psychosocial interventions, safeguarding, duty assessments, medication administration.

Report writing, attending tribunal hearings. Supporting with the depot clinic.

Please see the attached job description for all duties

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see job description and person spec

Staff benefits

• Pay Enhancements – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts