Community Psychiatric Nurse - Early Intervention
HCRG Staffing
Here at HCRG Staffing we are an integral partner to NHS Trusts providing high quality mental health professionals. We currently have a great role available within a fantastic team, of which many of our locums currently work and thoroughly enjoy. Please see the job description below and get in touch with us if you would be interested in joining!
Community Psychiatric Nurse
- Band: 6
- Team: Early interventions
- Start date: ASAP
- Contract length: 3 months with review to extend
- Pay rate: £30-31 per hour
- Location: South London
The Early Interventions Team provides a service for those people with onset psychoses between the ages of 17-65.The aim of the service is to provide intensive care using the Assertive community team meodel, to prevent relapse, reduce the number of "revolving door" admissions, ensure effective treatment for resistant symptoms, reduce the incidence of suicide and maximise an individual's personal and social functioning.
Main responsibilities;
- To be accountable for the co-ordination of care plans for people who are in the early stages of psychotic illness between the ages of 17-65.
- To work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- To assess health and social care needs and negotiate care plans with service users and their carers, remaining objective when working with diagnostic uncertainty.
- To undertake risk assessments according to trust policy.
- To ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies, within the CPA structure.
- To engage service users and carers assertively and offer care/interventions within the least restrictive setting in normal community environments.
