Community Psychiatric Nurse | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 03 Medi 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £46,419 - £55,046 per annum inclusive of inner London HCAS |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 03 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, SW15 5PN |
| Cwmni: | South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7457135/294-COMM-7457135-JB |
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A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join the Putney and Roehampton Integrated Recovery Hub (P&R IRH) as a Community Psychiatric Nurse. Your role will also provide you with the opportunity to work alongside our colleagues within a locally based multi-disciplinary team.
The team will provide you with the opportunity to be based within secondary care and provide you with the opportunity to co-produce and collaborate with voluntary and other primary care-based services so that our service users get better outcomes and good quality service delivery.
We aim to improve outcomes and experience for people with mental health conditions and physical illnesses but more so, addressing the mental health inequalities for our BME service-users.
This role is for a Community Psychiatric Nurse / Lead Health Care Professional who will work with mental health service users, their carers’ and other agencies to:
• Build trusting and collaborative relationships with service users.
• Understand what is important to the service user in their life.
• Help and support the service user to develop and set goals with what is important to them.
• Help them to feel hopeful about the things that are important to them.
• Provide support and advice with being involved in their community – for example housing, employment, education, welfare benefits, social life and peer networks.
• Help service users to feel in control of their life including self-management tools and techniques.
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
Working autonomously within the parameters of the role leading and supporting junior staff and wider care team to implement the delivery of quality nursing care, contributing to the physical, psychological, social, recreational and spiritual care in a recovery-focused way through therapeutic engagement and activities, and taking steps to address any issues that arise.
Leading on and undertaking activities to ensure that the fundamentals of care are met - nutrition, hydration, hygiene, comfort, emotional and social support:
Co-ordinating and evaluating collaborative patient centred care; getting feedback and improving plans with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
Liaising and working positively with members of the multi- disciplinary team and partner organisations.
Administering, and monitoring the side-effects of, medication; monitoring service user compliance. Safety; safe custody of medicines, sharps, clinical equipment, report all incidents following trust policy.
Leading and supporting/teaching junior staff on risk assessment and risk management that involves making decisions based on knowledge of the research evidence, knowledge of the individual service user and their social context, knowledge of the service user’s own experience and clinical judgment.
Supporting and supervising junior staff to develop the management of care needs through: Initial data collection, Monitoring of individual service user / patient progress, Feedback and discussion
Producing reports and in-care reviews. Devising a plan of care and interventions in partnership with service user, carer and MDT.
Coordinating junior staff and the wider care team in providing hands-on care to service users and evaluating processes of care delivered. This will include: Undertaking 1-1 engagement with service users in an honest, open and non- judgmental way.
Recognising and valuing service users as individuals, acknowledging the importance of maintaining the service user’s respect and dignity at all times and ensure that the care provided respects equality and diversity.
Ensuring the monitoring and recording service user clinical observations are undertaken, such as physical observations and vital signs and treating or escalating as appropriate any signs or symptoms of deterioration or that does not fulfil the personal parameters to the relevant professional for treatment. Promote healthy lifestyles and give health promotion advice and support.
This advert closes on Sunday 14 Sep 2025