Community Mental Health Nurse
- NHS
- Part Time
- Hemel Hempstead
- 41957.00 - 50387.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
The Mental Health Services for Older People in Northwest Hertfordshire are seeking two skilled and compassionate clinicians to join our dedicated team. We are recruiting to one full-time post (37.5 hours) and one part-time post (22.5 hours), working with service users at varying stages of their mental health journey.
We are looking for individuals who are passionate about making a meaningful difference to older adults and their carers. You will bring ambition, resilience and a commitment to delivering high-quality care in a demanding but deeply rewarding environment. These roles offer genuine scope to influence practice and contribute to ongoing service development.
As a post holder, you will:
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Work with people aged 65 and over
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Hold care coordination responsibilities
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Be an active member of a supportive, multi-disciplinary team
As a member of staff, you represent Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) and play a vital role in fostering positive relationships between the Trust, our service users, their families and carers, and the wider network of partner agencies, charities and service providers.
If you are motivated, collaborative and committed to improving the lives of older adults, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The post holders will provide routine assessments for service users presenting with mental health concerns, develop collaborative treatment plans alongside the multidisciplinary team, and monitor progress through to discharge back to primary care.
These are varied and stimulating roles that require confidence, assertiveness, and adaptability. They offer the opportunity to work across a range of settings with individuals who have diverse mental health needs. The work is highly rewarding, enabling service users to achieve meaningful recovery and live fulfilling lives within their personal limitations.
You will work in partnership with service users, their carers, and colleagues to positively manage risk within the community, supporting and empowering individuals throughout their recovery journey. The post holder will maintain high standards of documentation and record keeping in line with Trust policies.
You will deliver person-centred care that reflects current best practice and be prepared to challenge any practice that may compromise the quality of care provided to older adults.
A sound understanding of the legal and ethical considerations in mental health care is essential, including strong working knowledge of the Mental Health Act (1983) and its application in both mental health and non-mental health settings
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Job responsibilities
As the post holder will be working within the Community Specialist Mental Health Team for Older People (Northwest), they will be expected to build and maintain effective working relationships with individuals, carers, partner agencies, and wider system colleagues. Constructive collaboration, clear communication, and mutual respect are essential to ensuring highquality, coordinated care. In all interactions, the post holder will represent Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) and uphold its values and professional standards.
The role requires close partnership working with other HPFT services, including the Crisis Function Team and the Early Memory and Diagnostic Service, as well as Hertfordshire County Councils Health and Community Services. These relationships are fundamental to delivering safe, seamless care and ensuring that service users receive timely, appropriate support across the mental health pathway.
The post holder will be responsible for the assessment of care needs, and for the development, implementation, and evaluation of individualised programmes of care. They will manage a defined caseload and signpost service user to relevant team. The role also includes responsibility for staff supervision, supporting staff development, contributing to the learning of students, and working effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
All staff are expected to comply with the Trusts AntiDiscriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct, and Equality and Diversity requirements. The post holder must ensure that their practice reflects these standards at all times.
Please refer to attached job description and person specification
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN or Dip/Bsc (Hons) in Mental Health Nursing
- ENB 998/Preceptorship and Mentorship
Desirable
- ENB 812/Bsc in Specialist Community Nursing Practice (Mental Health).
- Psychosocial interventions
Experience and Attainments
Essential
- Experience of working in a range of settings relevant to the post
- At least 2 years of post registration experience with at least one year at Band 5
- Experience of working in acute mental health inpatient/day care services
- Experience of working in situations of crisis and emotionally demanding environments
- Experience and knowledge of safeguarding process
- Experience of teaching and training
- Experience and knowledge of working in a multi-ethnic community
- Experience of delivering evidence based care
Desirable
- Experience of working with acute mental health problems in a community setting
Knowledge
Essential
- Up to date knowledge of relevant legislation, ethical issues, strategic frameworks and current guidelines regarding the range of presenting problems in adult mental health, their implications for both practices and clinical management
- Professional Code of Conduct
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Clinical risk assessment and management in a community setting
Desirable
- Knowledge of parenting literature and its application
- Ability to teach and train others using multi-media materials suitable for presentation.
- Knowledge of current developments in research with service user group
Skills and Aptitudes
Essential
- Skills to use and give supervision effectively
- Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and treatment of individual, couples, and families requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills in applying theory to practice and ability to use a range of models in formulating community care plans
- Ability to communicate effectively within a multi-professional team
- Ability to work with diverse communities in a wide variety of contexts
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information where persuasive, empathic and reassuring skills are required
- Ability to deal sensitively with stressful situation including; staff and organisational problems; safeguarding; family breakdown; serious mental ill health and risk of self-harm
- Ability to cope with verbal abuse and to recognise and diffuse potential physical abuse from service users
- Ability to apply practice governance as appropriate to maintain ethical and effective clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Assessing and monitoring physical health care
Desirable
- Substantial IT skills
Communication and People Skills
Essential
- Able to communicate effectively, orally and in writing at an ageappropriate level - complex, technical, and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and professionals within and outside the NHS
- Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to hold the stress of others.
- Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals
Organisational skills
Essential
- Ability to maintain high standards of record keeping, including data entry and recording.
- Ability to work autonomously, setting appropriate goals in accordance with professional, ethical guidelines and Trust policies ...
