Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse -Older Adults - Clevedon

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse within the Complex Intervention and Treatment Team (CITT) in North Somerset. We are an integrated health and social care team that provides support for later life service users across the locality with both functional illness and dementia.

You should be an organised, highly motivated and enthusiastic individual who has excellent communication skills, a flexible approach to work and be committed to working with later life service users. Previous experience of working with this client group would be an advantage. We are a very supportive team offering a range of opportunities for supervision.

We would welcome anyone who would like to come along for an informal visit.

You will be a key worker and will co produce Safety Assessments and Personal Wellbeing Plans with your service users and their families/carers.

This will include signposting to and navigating community resources

You will be completing Care Act assessments, if indicated, using the local authority IT system LAS.

We operate a duty system, staffed by 1 qualified person each day.

Attending team meetings and contributing to case discussions.

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to ap

proximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen Brook Job title: Team Manager Email address: helenbrook@nhs.net Telephone number: 01275 335300

Tracey McCrum

Senior Practitioner

tmccrum@nhs.net