Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN)

Job overview

Thank you for your interest in the Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) position within our H&F Assertive Engagement and Rehabilitation Team.

Please read the Job Description and Person Specification carefully to ensure you meet the essential criteria and hold the relevant current professional registration. This post is currently ring-fenced for nursing applicants only.

West London NHS Trust’s Community Rehabilitation Services are undergoing an exciting period of development, with the integration of an assertive outreach function. The successful candidate will work across both rehabilitation and assertive outreach pathways.

We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic mental health nurse with experience in psychosocial rehabilitation and a passion for service development.

Previous experience in a rehabilitation or assertive outreach setting is essential. You will support people with complex mental health needs to achieve recovery, greater independence and improved quality of life.

The role requires excellent communication, clinical decision-making, risk management, multidisciplinary working and the ability to engage individuals who may find it difficult to access or maintain contact with services.

You will be supported by experienced senior and professional managers and a committed multidisciplinary team. We offer opportunities for ongoing training, professional development and involvement in service improvement.

Main duties of the job

• To provide comprehensive, culturally appropriate, evidence-based assessments to establish client’s needs; level of support and type of interventions required to facilitate their rehabilitation
• To manage a small caseload of service users with complex, severe and enduring mental health needs; using evidence based and recovery principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment and support for clients in our Boroughs who are registered with a local GP.
• To act as a named worker for service users and hold a caseload of nursing-specific clients (usually for medication administration and physical health monitoring). Undertake assessment and care co-ordination activities within a multi-disciplinary framework, in order to identify the needs of service users and to arrange and provide appropriate packages of care within the available budget.
• To present cases to the relevant placement panels for in-borough and out-of-borough placements, both for initial funding requests and reviews.
• To work proactively with service providers to draw up resettlement plans and carry out regular reviews for clients to assess their progress towards identified goals.
• To contribute to service development
• To undertake supervisory and appraisal responsibilities for allocated team members
• To act as mentor to students on practice placement and to mentor junior members of staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

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.