Community Mental Health Nurse, Band 5 Community Mental Health Team, Murray Royal Hospital

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

Applications are invited for a Community Mental Health Nurse to join our multidisciplinary Older People’s Community Mental Health Team.

As the successful applicant, you will have experience of working with people with a wide range of mental health problems and have current knowledge of best practice in Mental Health Nursing. The post holder will work in partnership to provide psychosocial and psychological interventions, facilitating, enabling and supporting people within their homes and communities. This will be inclusive of providing mental health liaison support within residential/nursing care where required.

There will be a requirement to provide a supervisory role to junior members of staff within the nursing team, and to fulfil the CMHT Duty Worker role.

Working as part of a collaborative multidisciplinary team you will demonstrate effective communication and interpersonal skills as a core component of your role. Within this role the successful candidate will be involved within the integrated older peoples work streams across Perth City.

If you have these skills, display strengths based and social inclusive approaches to working, can manage change and are committed to improving the lives of people with mental health problems then we would like to hear from you.

You must be registered RMN of UK NMC Register.

Informal enquiries to:

Senior Charge Nurse Kerry Lowe kerry.lowe2t

Charge Nurse Daria Durczynska daria.durczynskat

Older Peoples Community Mental Health Team Perth City

Hours of work: 36 per week /Monday – Friday

As part of ongoing and future service development within Perth City Older Peoples Community Mental Health Team, you may be required to provide care within a 7-day service.

Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.