Community Mental Health Nurse - Gloucester Recovery Team

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified mental health nurse to join the Gloucester Recovery Team.

We are a highly motivated multidisciplinary team delivering high quality, person-centred assessment and treatment, with a strong focus on promoting independence and enhancing opportunities for social engagement. The Recovery Team works with Adults of Working Age (18 and over) with a range of serious mental health needs. The successful applicant would need experience of working with clients with mental health problems, helping them to manage their illness and work towards their recovery, be flexible, and able to work effectively in a busy but rewarding environment.

We are seeking a motivated and innovative individual to join this enthusiastic, progressive and dynamic multi-disciplinary team. We can offer an opportunity to develop your skills and experience and to contribute to the development of a high quality service.

The team provides a planned needs lead 9am-5pm five days a week service.

Main duties of the job

• Providing evidenced based interventions for service users, acting as care coordinator where identified and managing a personal case load.
• Contribute to wider team functions including clinical work, service development and team and Trust objectives.
• Work and liaise with others agencies and organisations.

In return you will have opportunities and commitment from the team and manager towards:

• Developing your skills within the specialist assessments and treatments delivered by the team.
• Gain experience working alongside other teams and gain insight into their operations.
• Share in team success, developments, and job satisfaction.
• Receive statutory/mandatory and specific training pertinent to the specialty
• Regular individual supervision as well as that from weekly MDT.
• A voice and recognition within the team, and encouraged and supported to make a contribution.
• Appraisal and personal development plan.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our people’s skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.