Altair Healthcare | Mental Health Community Support | Community Care Services UK

Job Description: Registered Nurse

Altair Healthcare are looking for Registered Mental Health Nurses to join our team in Devon and Cornwall. If you share our passion to make a difference to people's lives by providing them with support to live independently in their own homes, within their communities, we would love to hear from you.

Full or part-time hours

About the Role:

You will need to be NMC registered, with at least 2 years experience of working with people with mental health problems.

Duties include:

• Supporting people with mental health problems to live independently within their own homes and communities.
  
• Supporting them to perform activities of daily living in accordance with their support plan.
  
• Medication administration and management.
  
• Working with service users in a way that promotes recovery, independence and social inclusion.
  
• Ensuring service users' safety in accordance with their risk assessments, including physical security and safeguarding issues.
  
• Record-keeping - ensuring that all relevant information is recorded, is accurate and up to date.
  
• Awareness of safeguarding issues and understanding of the process for raising safeguarding concerns.
  
• Upholding service users' confidentiality, understanding the data protection legislation (GDPR) policy and the information sharing process.
  
• Where required/necessary, working collaboratively with other agencies to maximise service users' outcomes.
  

About You:

• You must have a kind, caring, and friendly personality with a genuine desire to work with people - to make a difference by providing day-to-day support to enable them to live independently.
  
• You will need to have a caring, patient and compassionate nature, with the ability to show empathy for others.
  
• You will need good communication and interpersonal skills to engage effectively with service users, their families and other professionals.
  
• You must be willing to engage in relevant training for role and for professional development.
  
• You will need to have a full UK driving licence with use of a car, as the role requires travelling between customers' homes.