Senior Community Mental Health Nurse

Are you a Registered Mental Health Nurse looking for a new and rewarding challenge in crisis and urgent care services?

Our Home Treatment Team in Bridgwater are recruiting Registered Mental Health nurses to join our friendly team. You will act as a key member of our dynamic, multi-disciplinary team, responsible for ensuring urgent community assessments of clients presenting in an acute mental health crisis.

You will have robust assessment skills, provide brief interventions to clients on the team caseload and have a passion for providing compassionate care to clients and their families and carers.

This role will also enable you to work within our First Response Service in Somerset, providing telephone support and triage to individuals presenting in mental health crisis. This team sits under the umbrella of the Home Treatment Service and is based in Taunton, so a willingness to travel to both bases is a must.

As well as taking pride in caring for our patients, we also prioritise caring for our colleagues. You will be part of a compassionate team who understand the challenges that arise when working and the importance of supporting one another through these.

Main duties of the job

We recognise that recovery from acute mental illness is best met within a persons own home, so we strive to provide safe, intensive mental health treatment and intervention at home, as an alternative to admission to psychiatric hospital.

You will be a key member of a skilled Multi Disciplinary Team who will offer a wide range of psychological, medical and social interventions to support recovery.

As well as working with a clinical caseload and their families, the home treatment team gatekeep admissions to, and facilitate early discharge from mental health inpatient settings.

This role will involve flexible working across a 24-hour shift rota (days and night shifts) in a 7 day a week service.

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, fantastic pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.

The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will to experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan -- there is truly something for everyone!