Community Psychiatric Nurse Band 5

Job overview

We have a very exciting new opportunity to recruit a Band 5  Registered Mental Health Nurse.

We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic Community Psychiatric Nurses to join our  fantastic community team within the Bolton division. Bolton Community Mental Health Services are a committed integrated service that strive to provide quality recovery based support to people with severe and enduring mental health related difficulties.

We will consider applications from B5 about to qualify or experienced B5 who want to transition into the B6 role with a fully supported integration and coaching process.

We are committed to promoting staff wellbeing and you will be offered supportive clinical supervision, monthly team training sessions for CPD ‘Lunch and Learn’, weekly staff mindfulness sessions over Teams and the opportunity to develop skills in psychosocial interventions and access to our successful recovery academy for further development. We actively promote work/life balance. All employees will have regular line management supervision.

Main duties of the job

As a Band 5 you will have the following duties :

Duties will include the organisation and delivery of depot clinics. Having  a defined caseload non-complex service users, and work within the recovery model using a wide range of evidence based holistic assessments and interventions.

You will hold a caseload of  those treated with depot medication, clozapine and lithium, those on standard care or under CPA.

As a band 5 nurse you will have a key role in supporting the mental and physical health agenda within the team.  As a Community Psychiatric Nurse working in the service, you will be required to have knowledge and understanding of the CPA process.

You will be expected to work proactively and flexibly within a multi-disciplinary team model. You will also be part of the extended hours service, which would include weekends and bank holidays working on a rota basis. We would welcome the opportunity to discuss this role with you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification

Staff benefits

• Pay Enhancements:

• 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
• Blue Light Card Discounts
• fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)