Community Psychiatric Nurse

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We are looking to recruit a Band 6 CPN to our service within the enhanced community dementia team. The service is currently in an exciting period of growth and transformation, to provide locality based specialist dementia care for pre, peri and post diagnostic dementia care and support.

This is an interesting and exciting opportunity that will provide you with a challenging and rewarding role within the multi professional dementia team and the opportunity to be part of shaping this developing service. We will expect you to have well-developed clinical assessment skills, leadership skills, an ability to compile care plans in partnership with service users and carers. The priorities of this post will be to facilitate rapid access to a diagnosis, treatment, crisis prevention and intervention along with preventing avoidable hospital admissions and assisting with timely discharge from hospital.

• Facilitate rapid access to diagnosis and treatment for dementia care.
• Provide crisis prevention and intervention to support service users and carers.
• Prevent avoidable hospital admissions and assist with timely discharge from hospital.
• Compile care plans in partnership with service users and carers.
• Demonstrate leadership skills within the multi professional dementia team.
• Contribute to the three teams staffed by mental health nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, senior health care support workers and Alzheimer Scotland post diagnostic link workers.

• Band 6 Clinical Psychiatric Nurse (CPN).
• Well-developed clinical assessment skills.
• Leadership skills and the ability to work within a multi professional team.
• Experience in dementia care is desirable.
• Knowledge of mental health nursing and post diagnostic dementia care.

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Informal enquires should be made to:
Carol Jones, Clinical Services Manager (Carol

Jones4t).

Please be advised, This role does not meet the eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa or a Health and Care Worker visa. NHS Highland is unable to provide candidates with a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS).