Community Psychiatric Nurse

• Crisis Assessment & Triage: Screen, assess, and engage with newly referred service users experiencing acute mental health crises (referred via the Urgent Mental Health Helpline and other pathways), delivering immediate nursing care and risk management.
• Home-Based Recovery Care: Provide evidence-based, nurse-led psychosocial interventions to service users and their families, empowering recovery and providing a safe alternative to inpatient admission.
• Gatekeeping: Undertake clinical gatekeeping assessments to ensure individuals receive care in the least restrictive environment suitable to their needs.
• Shift Leadership & Coordination: Lead and coordinate shifts--prioritising team workloads, allocating care to the wider MDT, and supporting colleagues through high-pressure situations.
• Quality & Clinical Governance: Maintain meticulous, up-to-date nursing documentation and risk assessments in line with Trust standards and CPA guidelines.
• Practice Education & Mentorship: Act as a practice educator/mentor to nursing students and new staff, supporting their induction, supervising clinical practice, and contributing to team training package

Essential

• Registration with relevant regulatory body. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)

Desirable

• Further training relevant to the role
• Mentorship or practice educator qualification

Essential

• Experience working in mental health service
• Experience of prioritising casework and allocation /delegation of tasks to others.
• Experience of liaising with a variety of stakeholders both internal and external to organisations.

Desirable

• Experience working within Crisis Home Treatment Team

Essential

• Knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Care programme approach, Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding, Consent to Treatment.
• An understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management.
• Understanding of the impact of mental health crisis on lifestyle and function for clients, family and carers and common pharmacological and psychosocial treatments
• Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism at all times, especially in complex/challenging situations

Desirable

• Leadership skills