Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse - Assertive Outreach Service

Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse – Assertive Outreach Service

Band 6

Main area: Band 6 CPN for East Assertive Outreach Team

Grade: Band 6

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Part time – 28 hours per week (Weekends and Bank Holidays on a rotational basis)

Job ref: 436-6780510-B

Site: Small Heath Health Centre

Town: Birmingham

Salary: £37,338 – £44,962 per annum, pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59

Please note that this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 CPN looking for a new challenge to work within the East Assertive Outreach Team. The Assertive Outreach Service is a multidisciplinary team that adopts a person-centred approach, focusing on individual recovery. We work with adults with complex, severe, and enduring mental health needs in the community.

This position would be suitable for a Registered Mental Health Nurse with a qualification at degree level or equivalent and registration with a relevant professional body (i.e., NMC) with several years’ community experience working with service users with complex long-term needs.

The Assertive Outreach service operates over 7 days per week, 365 days per year, with shift patterns consisting of day shifts (9:00 am – 5:00 pm), late shifts (12:00 pm – 8:00 pm), and weekends (9:00 am – 5:00 pm). However, we can offer flexible working arrangements during these hours.

The ability and willingness to travel across the Birmingham & Solihull area for work purposes is required for this role.

Main duties of the job

• Act as Key worker to a prescribed caseload, effectively managing your workload utilizing Dialog plus care planning tool in recovery-focused interventions.
• Work as an independent practitioner and collaboratively as part of the Team, demonstrating the ability to work with challenging and complex issues.
• Demonstrate a range of skills including effective communication, empathy, self-awareness, clinical skills, and understanding of the Mental Health Act.
• Attend daily handovers and maintain high levels of communication within the team and contribute to the risk management processes within the service.
• Possess a thorough understanding of the role of a CPN and the role of key worker, demonstrating high levels of skill in assessment, intervention, and planning within a client-centred recovery approach.

Working for our organisation

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Mental Health Nursing

Experience

• Experience in adult mental health settings
• Supervision of junior staff and/or being a placement educator
• Demonstrates experience of MDT working and with external agencies/health care providers
• Community experience
• Demonstrates leadership skills

Knowledge

• Knowledge/experience of the recovery approach in mental health
• Knowledge/experience of clinical audit

The Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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