Community Psychiatric Nurse

About This Role

This nursing post in the Gedling & Hucknall Older People Care Unit (OPCU) provides assessment, treatment, and support for older adults with mental health difficulties and individuals of any age with organic mental health diagnoses. The team works within the Gedling & Hucknall locality alongside service users, carers, and partner agencies to promote recovery, independence, and quality of life. The role suits a strong, motivated, and compassionate nurse who reflects the core values of honesty, compassion, trust, respect, and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Provide a defined level of specialist assessment and access to interventions for a diverse patient group and their families under the care programme approach, who present with significant mental health conditions and people with a dementia diagnosis
• Provide realistic timely or occasionally intensive support to patients, assessing and supporting patients within a care home setting
• Demonstrate active clinical and managerial leadership skills within the team, providing education and supervision to junior staff members and other professionals

Benefits

• Career development and progression opportunities
• Employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network
• In-house occupational health and staff counselling services
• Dedicated Health and Wellbeing team

About the Company

Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust's Mental Health division comprises three directorates: Adult Mental Health, Mental Health Services for Older People, and Specialist Services. It employs over 2,800 dedicated staff across a vast geographical area, providing healthcare services in various settings from community to acute wards. The Trust is one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers, also hosting national and regional services. Overall, the organization comprises over 11,000 colleagues, delivering intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire from over 200 sites. The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions and achieving its net-zero commitment.