Job Description
Job overview
We’re offering an exciting opportunity to work with the South Kent Coastal Community Mental Health service for older people (CMHSOP). We’re looking for a band 6 community mental health nurse to work with clients who have reached older age and are experiencing mental health difficulties such as depression, psychosis and complex emotional needs. We also provide a memory assessment service and offer specialist interventions for people with a diagnosis of dementia that have complex needs.
Your role within the team would be varied allowing plenty of opportunity to both demonstrate and develop your skills as well as offering a dynamic working life. You will have a caseload of clients which would involve monitoring and assessment of mental health, risk and co-ordinating treatment plans. This also involves providing support to carers and loved ones. You will additionally be involved in cognitive assessments and supporting the team’s duty syst...