Job Summary
We are looking to recruit two Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurses with a passion for working with people with mental health conditions.
This is a well-established, high-performing team delivering compassionate care in the community to adults who suffer from mental health problems. You will be working in a team that is diverse in background, highly motivated, friendly, agile, flexible, and responsive.
The post-holder will provide effective and timely care within a multidisciplinary team setting for working age adults who present with functional mental health problems who are residing in the London Borough of Barnet.
The post holder will carry a defined caseload and will work closely with other members of the team, including Psychologists, Medical professionals, Social Workers, Nurses, and other Health & Allied professionals to ensure that the best quality of care is provided.
This work will be underpinned by a bio psychosocial model of care and the post holder will ensure that best practice psycho-social interventions are offered wherever possible within their skill set.
Main duties of the job
1. To work as a Care-coordinator within the team in the planning, delivery, co-ordination, and evaluation of assessments and formulation.
2. To work closely and collaboratively with other members of the team including Psychologists, Medical professionals, and other Allied Professionals to provide optimal care.
3. To carry out complex person-centred assessments.
4. To ensure that all care offered is evidence-based and all interventions take into account specific physical, cultural, psychological, and spiritual needs of service users.
5. To assess care needs, devise care programmes, packages of care including Risk assessment, Dialog+, and implement and evaluate these in collaboration with individual service users and their carers.
6. To support and mentor less experienced staff, support workers, and students from related professional backgrounds who are on placement within the team.
7. To undertake duties designed to extend clinical and managerial expertise as delegated by the Team Manager when required.
8. To undertake comprehensive outcome monitoring of all referrals.
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough, we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust, you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Date posted: 27 February 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £42,939 to £50,697 a year per annum including HCAS
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 306-BEH-2635
Job locations: The Redhill Clinic, 64 Station Road, Edgware, HA8 7AB
Job Description Responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person Specification
Skills Essential
* Communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
* Demonstrate a clear understanding of current Mental Health legislation and its application/use in practice or legislation relevant to substance misuse services.
* Understanding of current issues informing the Health Agenda.
* Experience of using word processing and database, as well as willingness to improve existing skills.
* Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues within a dynamic environment.
Desirable
* Evidence of other further post-registration education and training.
* Experience of working within a Multi-cultural framework.
* Knowledge of Phlebotomy, adult Venepuncture desirable, training will be provided.
* Demonstrable significant experience of working in mental health or a substance misuse setting.
Qualifications Essential
* Registered Mental Health Nurse.
Knowledge Essential
* Understanding of statutory policy relating to mental health care delivery incl. Care Programme Approach, National Service Framework for Mental Health, and the Mental Health Act.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
Employer details
Employer name: 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address: The Redhill Clinic, 64 Station Road, Edgware, HA8 7AB
Employer's website: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
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