Our clients are urgently seeking to recruit a
Locum Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse to join their Mental Health Team.
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm
Job Overview
The post holder will be a highly skilled and motivated Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or Mental Health Nurse and be a part of the newly developed hub. They will provide assessments and a range of brief interventions, to help address a range of biopsychosocial needs of people accessing the hub and expected to work effectively as a member of the multi-disciplinary team while also operating some autonomy.
Key Tasks & Responsibilities
To provide specialist assessments of service users with mental health problems with the primary care setting, ensuring proactive management of service users needs.
To support and deliver a range of biopsychosocial therapeutic interventions to service users in primary care, who do not meet the criteria for secondary mental health services
To provide specialist clinical advice to other team members on the suitability of assessments and interventions, where appropriate
To provide effective signposting to appropriate third sector and community based services for ongoing support
To provide high quality expertise and clinical reasoning in relation to referrals that may require onward referrals for secondary mental health care.
Contribute and carry out risk assessments and risk management plans.
To contribute to the continued development, review and transformation of the primary care mental health hub