Community Mental Health Nurse - Band 5 (Coventry)

Job summary

Community Mental Health Nurse - Band 5

Coventry Recovery (Psychosis) Team based at Swanswell Point, Stoney Stanton Road

Full time, permanent roles

We have an exciting opportunity for a band 5 nurse to gain experience in the Field of Community Mental Health in the Community Recovery Team. The team works with service users with psychotic illnesses across the city of Coventry and are based at Swanswell Point.

If you are interested in working with a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team, to enable you to progress to a band 6 with then this is the right post for you.

Please note Trust interviews are currently taking place through Microsoft Teams, this can be downloaded either through the App Store or Google Play for use on your phone/tablet.

Main duties of the job

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

The successful applicant will work alongside a multi-disciplinary team including 18 other nurses to deliver recovery focused interventions in the community. This includes care co-ordination under the Care Programme Approach and generic roles in the team such as office duty as well as specific nursing tasks such as supporting our range of clinics, therapy and group interventions. We encourage staff to bring their own ideas to meet patient needs, and have regular service development sessions to encourage ongoing development. You will receive extensive support and supervision from the Management and Leadership team as well as access to the nurse's forum led by our nursing lead for psychosis.

We utilise the Flexible Assertive Community Treatment and Recovery models to deliver multi-disciplinary care to our service users, this supports staff in managing the complex range of challenges our patient group face.

About us

Subject to Parliamentary approval, from 1st April 2022 all NHS workers in England who have face to face contact with patients must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Only those with specified medical exemptions will be excluded from this requirement. Please consider this mandatory requirement when applying for this position.

The service received an overall rating of Good by the CQC and an Outstanding for care and compassion of which we are rightly proud. We have also been recognised both locally and nationally by receiving awards for the services we provide.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services, we see on average around 5,000 patients every day.