Community Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of an experienced and established integrated multi-disciplinary team. This team is made up of a Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Nurses, Occupational Therapist, Support Time Recovery Worker, Employment Support Worker with further support of Admin.

If you are looking for a challenging, varied and rewarding job this could be the post for you and we would welcome you to come and meet us and apply.

This post is for 3 days a week and specifically Wednesday - Friday.

We are looking for someone who is reliable, committed, dynamic, and a motivated professional with excellent communication, organisational skills and the ability to prioritise work.

Having experience of working in a community mental health environment would be useful, but not essential, you will need to be able to apply the philosophies of engagement and recovery within your work with service users.

The team is based at the Yeatman Hospital, Sherborne and covers the surrounding area. The post holder will need to have a valid driving licence and use of a car as they will be required to assess and monitor patients in their own homes and within other community settings as well as the CMHT base.

Applications from candidates that require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are unfortunately ineligible to apply for this position.

Main duties of the job

The post holders will work as part of an established integrated multi-disciplinary team. This team is made up of a Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Non-Medical Prescriber, Nurses, Occupational Therapist, Support Time Recovery Worker, Employment Support Worker, with further support of Admin.

To provide a comprehensive accessible and responsive mental health service to Adults and their families within a defined locality.

To support the team and locality leader in implementation of the DHUFT Mental Health Strategy.

To continually develop clinical, team and service evaluation and delivery of service.

To contribute to effective multi-disciplinary working within the Community Mental Health Service and to build up effective liaison with community, primary, other secondary and tertiary services and agencies within the locality to provide holistic care package based on individual’s need and service development.

Provision of informal and formal clinical and managerial supervision to other members of staff, qualified and unqualified health care support workers and students.

Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of.  Applicants who subscribe to the DBS update service are able to present a valid DBS certificate instead of requiring a new check.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification.  When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.

As part of our vision to have a skilled, diverse and caring workforce, Dorset HealthCare is working in partnership with The Prince’s Trust to support people getting into work, as part of this partnership, we are offering an employability service to support individuals between 16-30 years old with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. If you would like or know of anyone who would value this support please do contact [email protected]