Community Psychiatric Nurse

• Assessment & Crisis Screening: Screen newly referred service users experiencing acute mental health crises, carrying out holistic nursing assessments and delivering short-term interventions until the crisis is resolved.
• Targeted Psychosocial Interventions: Provide evidence-based, short-term psychosocial and nursing interventions tailored for individuals presenting with significant distress.
• Shift Co-ordination & MDT Leadership: Act as shift co-ordinator--leading the floor, prioritising clinical workloads, delegating effectively across the MDT, and managing fast-changing priorities.
• Hospital Gatekeeping & Liaison: Perform gatekeeping assessments within general hospital mental health assessment areas to ensure service users access the right care pathway promptly.
• Quality & Clinical Documentation: Keep care plans, risk assessments, and clinical documentation updated and compliant with Trust policies, Care Programme Approach (CPA) guidelines, and Quality Improvement standards.
• Practice Education & Mentorship: Serve as a Practice Educator/mentor--supervising nursing students on placement, completing formal written assessments, maintaining update training, and facilitating smooth team inductions.
• Training & Service Development: Contribute to the design and delivery of specialist nursing and in-service training packages to foster team development and continuous learning

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
• Ability to work autonomously and cooperatively as part of an interprofessional team.

Desirable

• Ability to motivate, empower and enable others.
• Leadership skills