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Doncaster Adult Mental Health Services Community Psychiatric Nurse, Band 5 – Permanent Location: Central Locality Salary: AFC Band 5 Full Time, 37.5 hours per week The Central Locality Community Mental Health Team within Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 CPN to join their team. The Central Locality Team provides support to individuals with complex and enduring mental health issues. The team offers a range of management strategies and interventions including various psychological therapies. Care and support is offered in line with the CPA approach. Applicants must demonstrate a flexible approach, evolving around the needs of service users, their families and significant others. The role involves working as a team member, with the responsibility of a caseload across traditional boundaries of Adult and the voluntary sector services. The service ethos is focused on recovery and social inclusion and therefore offers successful applicants an exciting and demanding opportunity to improve people’s lives. We are looking for an enthusiastic person with excellent team working skills, who is keen to develop their knowledge and skills in this area. You should be a competent and motivated practitioner with appropriate demonstrable experience. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing assessment and therapeutic intervention in the community JOB SUMMARY To carry out nursing interventions within the community as required. To assist in the development of the Nursing Team, working with other agencies to ensure the highest standard of patient care. PRINCIPAL DUTIES / MAIN TASKS. Managing a team caseload under supervision in accordance with sound nursing practice and principles. Undertaking regular supervision and PDR in accordance with Trust policy. Promoting and Maintaining the highest standards and attitudes towards the care of patients / clients. Assisting colleagues in maintaining an effective and efficient service. Assisting, developing, implementing and evaluating plans of care, ensuring therapeutic and recreational programmes for patients / clients individually and in groups, in the Community. Ordering, storage, monitoring and administration of medication. Liaison within the multi-disciplinary care team, including carers, voluntary agencies etc. Interested? Informal enquiries and visits to the team are welcomed. For further information please contact Emily Coll Central Team 03000212031 Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 3700 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected. We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services. We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website: http://workwith.rdash.nhs.uk/ Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role