# Community Psychiatric Nurse

**Company**: NHS Professionals Limited
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £25.76 an hour
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This position as a Community Psychiatric Nurse allows you to deliver crucial mental health support and interventions directly within the community, positively influencing patients' lives.

The role involves:

- Providing robust assessments of patients with mental health difficulties

- Identifying appropriate care pathways and ensuring the least restrictive option to meet patient needs

- Signposting to suitable care providers

- Raising concerns to senior staff for support and management

- Completing documentation and planning care for patients

- Presenting cases to Multi-Disciplinary Teams for discussion around care pathways

- Liaising with colleagues from nursing, occupational therapy, medical, psychology, and administration

As a bank role, it offers flexibility in scheduling to accommodate personal commitments, promoting a healthy work-life balance. The diverse community settings provide opportunities for skill enhancement and professional autonomy.

The role requires:

- A minimum of 6 months paid experience as a Community Psychiatric Nurse in a UK hospital environment within the last 3 years

- Current NMC Professional Registration and up-to-date nursing practices

- Full UK driving licence and own vehicle

Benefits include access to Learning & Development opportunities, flexible shifts, wellbeing resources, and paid annual leave across over 50 partner NHS Trusts.

## Skills

### Required
- Community Psychiatric Nursing
- Mental Health Support
- Patient Assessment
- Care Pathway Management
- Multi-Disciplinary Team Collaboration
- NMC Professional Registration
- UK Driving Licence

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