Community Psychiatric Nurse

Job overview

We are looking to recruit to our Home Treatment Team & Rapid Response Team. Working within the home treatment function you will be delivering support to patients and their families using evidence based, profession specific and general mental health knowledge providing client centred, recovery orientated principles and practice for individuals, families and carers referred to the Service.

You will also work within the Rapid response function undertaking assessments 24/7 received from Urgent Mental Health Helpline as well as undertaking gatekeeping assessments in the general hospital mental health assessment area. To work in accordance with Trust and Home Treatment & Rapid Response Team Policies and Procedures and the Care Programme Approach.

To provide an alternative to inpatient admission treating patients in their home environment who are presenting in a crisis with significant distress.

The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Sarah's story: A career in community mental health nursing

Main duties of the job

Working with service users referred to home Treatment team and Rapid Response Service

• To screen, and work with all newly referred service users experiencing acute mental health crisis providing assessment or short-term interventions until crisis is resolved
• To provide short-term specific psychosocial interventions for those who would benefit from crisis interventions
• To ensure documentation is reviewed and updated in line with quality improvement standards
• To shift co-ordinate lead the shift, allocate work to the wider MDT and prioritise workloads.
• To contribute to the planning and implementation of induction, training and education of students and staff.
• To contribute to the delivery of specialist/ professional training packages of in-service training and staff development when necessary.
• To fulfil the role of mentor/practice educator, maintaining own update training and ensuring responsibility for regular placement provision and ensuring supervision and written assessment of students whilst on placement.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job description for further details for full detailed responsibilities of this role.