Mental Health Nurse - Coventry CMHT

Job overview

We have a post for a band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse within the team that we are looking to recruit to.

This will mean that we will cover a broad spectrum of  diagnosis and presentations including  people with emotion regulation difficulties, schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety, depression, OCD symptoms, and psychotic depression

Our Team covers the locality of Coventry area.

Main duties of the job

The team has invested in considerable staff training and development over the years to develop skills with working with our patient group. Working within an established team, you’ll be managing a caseload of clients who have complex mental health problems across all diagnostic presentations and delivering a range of interventions. You will have the opportunity to gradually build your skills and confidence as part of a multi-disciplinary team, using evidence-based approaches.. You’ll be communicating with a wide variety of clients; professionals; partners and agencies.

As part of working in our team you will be working with some individuals who can present as chaotic & emotionally dysregulated. This can be a challenging patient group; however, this team has a positive attitude & non-judgemental approach toward this patient group, understanding what has brought them to their current presentation, recognising individual strengths and establishing clear, focussed, professional relationships that identify clear boundaries and expectations for both the patient and clinician.  This empowers both patient and clinician to see what can be achieved through clear collaborative care planning. Those patients with a psychotic presentation may be managed through shared care within the team. This allows the sharing of responsibility, skills and knowledge. This offers the opportunity for staff to develop their role whilst being supported and guided by more experienced clinicians

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are looking for staff with some experience of assessing and working with people with complex and significant mental health problems or who wish to further develop such skills.  We see this as an ideal opportunity to develop more specialist skills.   It is important you have good communication skills and can work on your own initiative as well as collaboratively with colleagues.  A willingness and enthusiasm to learn new skills and develop your practice is vital.

This team provides interventions on a one to one basis and group formats. You will have the opportunity to participate in groups and you will be given training within the team for this. Above all it is vital that you have a sense of humour if you wish to join our team.