Community Psychiatric Nurse - Older Adult ServiceNHS

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for Band 6 Mental Health Nurses to join the Older Adults community team based in South Warwickshire. We are a developing team committed to providing excellent patient care, proactively embedding and utilising multidisciplinary roles to provide recovery and outcome focussed interventions for individuals within the service.

We are seeking candidates who have experience of working in mental health settings who have a keen interest in working with older adults, are innovative, dynamic and looking to develop their clinical skills. They will be able to demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills and exhibit behaviours that reflect Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust vision and values.

A full UK driving licence and access to your own transport is essential in this role.

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

Main duties of the job

As a Community psychiatric nurse within the Older adult service your role will include managing a caseload of complex patients presenting with a wide array of mental health diagnoses.

Strong organisational, communication and risk management skills are essential.

Job description

• Management of a caseload of patients presenting with complex needs.
• Responsibility for the day-to-day delivery of the service to individual clients and their families and carers via a range of evidence-based interventions.
• Delivery of specific interventions in line with the treatment pathway.
• Generate options including modification or alternatives to planned intervention to meet clinical need as appropriate.
• Agree course of action with those responsible for performing the interventions including supporting junior staff.
• You may be required to provide supervision for junior nursing staff and support workers in the team.
• Enable service users to choose and take part in activities that are meaningful to them. These may include self care, education, recreational and work activities.
• Participate as part of the multi-disciplinary team implementing, evaluating and reviewing all aspects of the service users' care
• Advise, inform and support on the physical health and wellbeing of individuals (services users, their family, their significant other) in a holistic way.
• Please review the Job description for more information on the role

About us

Candidate Information Pack Dec 24

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.