Community Psychiatric Nurse inBasingstoke inBasingstoke PUBLISHED
MON 4 NOV 2024
The trust emphasises compassionate care and the continuous improvement of services through well-trained staff, supported by their Academy of Excellence and practice educators. They seek candidates who demonstrate initiative and ownership of care processes, and they promote an inclusive recruitment process for all potential applicants, considering flexible working arrangements as needed.
We believe our staff are our most valuable asset; and excellent, well trained and motivated staff will help us deliver this transformation, creating a culture of compassion, collaboration and continuous improvement. We have our own unique, internal Academy of Excellence supporting registered staff to gain support throughout their careers to realise their aspirations as well as links to local universities to support further education and development. We support staff in clinical practice in many ways, and this includes having a team of Practice Educators to support and guide staff as they work alongside them.
You will need excellent assessment and communication skills. In addition, you will carry a caseload and participate in the teams "shared care" rota. As a member of the team, you will need to work alongside other agencies to promote holistic recovery focused care as well as producing reports, completing audits and running clinics as necessary.
We will provide training, shadowing opportunities and support you to work autonomously in the community and use your own initiative. The successful candidates will have sound clinical skills, be able to coordinate complex care packages, have good administration and IT skills, as well as a good working knowledge of CPA processes, report writing, organisational skills, safeguarding knowledge and the ability to identify issues and demonstrate ownership of change processes.
*To act as care coordinator to an agreed caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness.
*To undertake ongoing assessment, treatment and evaluation for service users known to the service.
*To work in a flexible hours service, including providing services outside of office hours and at weekends and bank holidays.
About us
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone -- if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team -- detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
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