Community Psychiatric Nurse in Dorchester inDorchester PUBLISHED TUE 10 JUN 2025 Jump to job information section
Job description
Are you are looking for a challenging, varied and rewarding job? This could be the post for you, and we would welcome you to come and meet us and apply.
We are looking for someone who is reliable, committed, dynamic, and a motivated professional with excellent communication, organisational skills and the ability to prioritise work.
The role responsibilities will include being a dedicated Care Coordinator for a caseload of patients whom you will provide a variety of treatment options for, being a rostered Duty Worker receiving, screening and processing referrals, undertaking regular assessments and providing telephone support to service users within the service.
Having experience of working in a community mental health environment would be useful, but not essential, you will need to be able to apply the philosophies of engagement and recovery within your work with service users.
The team is based in Dorchester and covers parts of rural Dorset and the post holder will need to have a valid driving licence and use of a car as you will be required to assess and monitor patients in their own homes and within other community settings.
Applications from candidates that require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are unfortunately ineligible to apply for this position.
The post holders will work as part of an established integrated multi-disciplinary team, this team is made up of a Psychiatrist, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Nurses, Social Workers and Support Time Recovery Workers with further support of Admin and Psychologists.
To provide a comprehensive accessible and responsive mentalhealth service to Adults and their families within a definedlocality.
To support the team and locality leader in implementation of theDHUFT Mental Health Strategy.
To continually develop clinical, team and service evaluation anddelivery of service.
To contribute to effective multi-disciplinary working within the Community Mental Health Service and to build up effective liaison with community, primary, other secondary and tertiary services and agencies within the locality to provide holistic carepackage based on individual's need and service development.
Provision of informal and formal clinical and managerial supervision to other members of staff, qualified and unqualified health care support workers and students.
Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of. Applicants who subscribe to the DBS update service are able to present a valid DBS certificate instead of requiring a new check.
About us
For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification.When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.
As part of our vision to have a skilled, diverse and caring workforce, Dorset HealthCare is working in partnership with The Princes Trust to support people getting into work, as part of this partnership, we are offering an employability service to support individuals between 16-30 years old with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. If you would like or know of anyone who would value this support please do
If you're interested in this role but you have questions or you're not yet ready to apply, then please book a quick call with us and we'd be happy to answer any questions you have and tell you more about the role.
Requirements
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Benefits
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