Community Mental Health Nurse
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic Community mental health nurse to join our friendly multi-disciplinary team.
We're able to offer an individualised program of support and professional development to work through with the encouragement from an experienced team. We encourage Newly qualified professionals to apply.
You will hold a caseload and undertake the role of care coordinator for those with varied complex mental health and social care needs. Provide assessment and specific interventions to meet the needs of service users, their carers, and families. Be a flexible practitioner who enjoys new challenges in meeting the developing needs of the service and service users, forgingprofessional working relationships with multi-agencies.
Benefits
Reallocation package and Golden Hello (T&C)
Career development and training opportunities, such as CBT, DBT, Nurse prescribing, family therapy etc.
As a registered professional you will automatically become a member of our Academy of Clinical Excellence (ACE) which has a specific focus on the professional development and career progression of our nurses and Allied Health Professionals
Pay Enhancements 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays, 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
Excellent pension
Cycle to work scheme
Salary sacrifice car scheme
Wellbeing programme
Main duties of the job
To act as care co-ordinator 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.
About us
Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?
Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?
We want to meet you!
Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.
Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.
Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:
- Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
- We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
- We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.
Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.
Date posted
13 February 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£33,706 to £40,588 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
348-SOU-C-622A
Job locations
Cannon House
6 Cannon Street
Southampton
Hampshire
SO15 5PQ
Employer details
Employer name
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Cannon House
6 Cannon Street
Southampton
Hampshire
SO15 5PQ
Employer's website
https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)








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