Community Mental Health Nurse

Job title:

Community Mental Health Nurse

Company

NHS Scotland

Job description

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.Applications are invited for individuals to join our Intensive Home Treatment Team in Perth. The team provides intensive home treatment and early supported discharge service for people with mental health problems.As a successful applicant you will have previous experience of working as a Band 5 with people who have a wide range of mental health problems.As a post holder, you will provide specialist mental health interventions focusing on the management of crisis, home treatment and intensive support of people being discharged from in-patient care. You will work jointly with members of the team to undertake individualised assessments of people in acute mental health crisis and will have a key role in developing, monitoring and evaluating treatment plans working in partnership with service users.As a lone worker in the community you will develop, deliver and evaluate specialist psychological and psychosocial interventions working with people to facilitate, enable, and support them within their homes and communities. You will also be required to provide supervisory role to junior members of staff within the team.The ability to travel is essential to meet the job requirements, as is the ability to work as part of a shift rota system.Being an individual with an attitude to support excellent team working and growth of strong interpersonal relationships across the teams will be critical values and qualities to developing high performance to ensure the delivery of the best care experience possible.NHS Tayside is a Values Based Organisation and is both passionate about and committed to the values of NHS Scotland which are:

• Dignity and Respect
• Openness, Honest and Responsibility
• Quality and Teamwork
• Care and Compassion

We have a structured staff review system and offer professional support through our clinical networks. We are committed to regular in-service training and personal and professional development.You must be registered on Sub-part 1: RN1 or RNA or Sub-part 2: RN2 of the UK NMC RegisterInformal enquiries to: Jackie Fleming, Team Leader – 01738 562223Hours of work are: Full Time 37.5 and Part TimeShort-listed applicants will be contacted by email. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

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Expected salary

Location

Perth & Kinross

Job date

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 04:40:21 GMT

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