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Job reference: 174270
Salary: Band 6 (£37,831 - £46,100)
Job closing date: 07/01/2024
Job Type: Nursing and Midwifery
Location: Oban
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 37
Job posted date: 19/12/2023
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Highland
Department: Mental Health

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NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Argyll and Bute Community Mental Health Services to work as a Community Mental Health Nurse with the Oban, Lorn and the Isles Team.

You will be a member of an integrated health and social care team and as such have links to the wider multi disciplinary team.

You should possess sound clinical knowledge and be able to demonstrate a wide range of clinical skills including:

  • the ability to offer interventions
  • deliver safe, effective care to a diverse client population
  • carry out assessments
  • develop, implement  and evaluate recovery plans

The post requires you to work as part of the wider multi disciplinary team. You should possess good interpersonal skills and have a commitment to partnership working.

Informal Enquiries to:
Gordon Parker, Acting Team Leader
Telephone: 01397 707456
Email: gordon.parker@nhs.scot

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NHS Highland is geographically the largest of the 14 regional boards of NHS Scotland, covering an area of 12,500 square miles, across Highland and Argyll & Bute.

As a board we strive to ensure the environment is conducive to nurturing a positive culture, supported and delivered through our NHS and Social Care values.






Care and compassion

Dignity and respect

Openness, honesty and responsibility

Quality and teamwork


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