Community Mental Health Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Mental Health Nurse at either grade 5 or 6 to join our expanding Community Mental Health Team-Older People Service based at Baghill House, covering the east of the Wakefield district. We are seeking either an experienced community mental health nurse or a potential development post can be offered. This is a full-time position of 37.5 hours per week., Will monitoring, support and offer therapeutic treatment to service users.

Will hold a caseload and support service users with complex mental health needs.

Will be able to risk manage safely within the community whilst supporting person centred approach/ recovery model.

Work both independent and has part of a team.

The post holder will require good IT, communication skills and be able to write clear comprehensive reports in set timeframe works on two electronic systems.

Responsible for the safe custody of medication, including checking and administration.

Ensure compliance with our clinical governance framework, you will motivate colleagues, champion service user safety and dignity and drive continuous improvement.

Become an Ice user safety and dignity and drive continuous improvement.

The post holder will support mentoring of students on placement and offer other educational advice support to other professionals when needed.

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We are a small, friendly, and passionate team looking to recruit a like-minded group of 5 or 6 nurses to work within our integrated team of both Trust and local authority professionals. A car and driving license are essential for this role due to the area that we cover.

The ideal candidate will be a qualified nurse with up-to-date professional expertise and experience in areas such as treatment, administration of injections, monitoring of wellbeing, assessment/risk management, social care support, and case management.

The post holder will also be responsible for becoming a mentor, supporting students and colleagues with their development, and assuming the daily functions within the band's six role, development will be offered if a band 5. Therefore, good IT skills are required, including familiarity with the electronic systems that support our work. The post is being advertised as either a band 6 post or as a development post at band 5 post whereby the successful candidate must successfully undertake/achieve band 6 competency framework to gain the band 6 role

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.