Community Mental Health Nurse

Band 5 (£31,892 - £39,735)

NHS Tayside, Kinnoull, Perth and Kinross

Part time
Permanent

Posted today, 12 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

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Full 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 an individual to join our multidisciplinary Older Peoples Community Mental Health Team.

As the successful applicant, you will have experience of working with people with a wide range of mental health problems and have current knowledge of best practice in Mental Health Nursing. The post holder will work in partnership to provide psychosocial and psychological interventions, facilitating, enabling and supporting people within their homes and communities.

There will be a requirement to provide a supervisory role to junior members of staff within the nursing team, and to fulfil the CMHT Duty Worker role along with work within care home liaison. Working as part of a collaborative multidisciplinary team you will demonstrate effective communication and interpersonal skills as a core component of your role. Within this role the successful candidate will be involved in the LINCS Model as well as assisting in the physical health clinic at ECT suite.

If you have these skills, display strengths based and social inclusive approaches to working, can manage change and are committed to improving the lives of people with mental health problems then we would like to hear from you.

You must be registered RMN of UK NMC Register.

Informal enquiries to: Aine McDonald, Team Leader, aine.mcdonald@nhs.scot

Hours of work are: 29.6 hours, currently Monday to Friday

Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.

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