Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen to join a highly regarded and established team based at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, at a time of growth and change.

We will recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Nurse Specialist or Social Worker to join our Psychiatric Liaison Team.

We are particularly keen to hear from applicants with experience of working across age ranges.

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines.

Main duties of the job

Our team is embedded in the hospital and enjoys good working relationships with acute care and CPFT colleagues across Hinchingbrooke and Peterborough.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) provides integrated community and mental health, learning disability and social care services of the highest standard due to our continued commitment to quality and service improvement. We support people of all ages to achieve the very best they can for their health and wellbeing. To ensure that we achieve this goal we recruit candidates of a high calibre that share our passion for delivering excellent service user care, research and education.

We need an individual with an interest in Liaison Psychiatry to join our team responding to referrals from the Emergency department and inpatients at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, post hours will be parttime ( hours per week), working -, seven days a week

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process. 

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