Staff Nurse Band 5

An opportunity to work in a dynamic team who provide rehabilitation and care for service users with complex mental health issues.

• Key working clients.
• Encourage service users to accept an optimum level of responsibility for their individual programmes using a recovery based approach.
• Co-ordinating shifts.
• Participates in the running of therapeutic resident’s groups.
• To ensure the safe custody of drugs and that they are ordered and administered accordingly to Trust policies and the Misuse of Drugs Act.

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) provides high quality, safe and innovative mental health care to our patients in the community, in their homes or in hospital. We provide services for adults of working age, adults with learning difficulties, and older people in the London area. We currently deliver the majority of our care to residents in the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington. However, we also provide substance misuse services in Westminster, and a substance misuse and psychological therapies service to people living in Kingston. Our trust is also a member of University College London Partners (UCLP), one of the world’s leading academic health science partnerships. In addition we have specialist programmes which provide help and treatment for: veterans living in London, young people caught in the cycle of gang culture, older people living with dementia and other age related mental health conditions. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.candi.nhs.uk/

Please see attached job description and person specification for more details about the roles and responsibilities of the vacancy .