Community Mental Health Nurse

To lead a mini team of staff to oversee the holistic care of service users on the Low Intensity Psychosis Pathway. To carry a clinical caseload and fulfil the named nurse role. To undertake comprehensive health needs and risk assessments (including capacity assessments) and develop a care plan in accordance with identified needs establishing specialist course of responsibilities/actions based on Recovery Principles. To carry out joint assessment with other MDT members as required. To be aware of and comply with the relevant mental health and work related legislation and policy at all times. To provide relevant up to date evidence based information about treatment/intervention that enables service users to make informed choices about their care. To deliver evidence based care in a timely manner. To make reactive recommendations as necessary when working alone in the community. For a more in depth Person and Job Specification please see the attached documents

• RMN or Dip/BSc (Hons) / MSc in Mental Health Nursing
• ENB 998/Preceptorship and Mentorship
Desirable criteria
• ENB 812/BSc in Specialist Community Nursing Practice (Mental Health)
• Psychosocial Interventions, Experience of working in a range of settings relevant to the post
• At least 2 years of postregistration 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 criteria
• Experience of working with acute mental health problems in a community setting
• Warranted Approved Mental Health Professional, 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 criteria
• Ability to teach and train others using multi-media materials suitable for presentation.
• Knowledge of current developments in research with service user group, 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 multiprofessional 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 criteria
• Substantial IT skills, Able to communicate effectively, orally and in writing at an age appropriate level - complex, technical, and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and professionals within and outside the NHS
ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS,
• 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
• 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., Disclosure and Barring approval (formally CRB check)
• Confident to work autonomously in the community and use own initiative to make decisions in complex situations.
• Able to travel independently across the Trust.
• Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving), You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  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., Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional

The Hertfordshire Adult Mental Health Community Transformation Programme is implementing new mini teams within Adult Mental Health services to focus support and give more time to care for service users with low intensity psychosis - a new Low Intensity Psychosis Pathway. This Band 6 post will be the named nurse lead for the new mini team in a specified Adult Mental Health Service, working closely with the Clinical Nurse Specialist and the MDT of the service to support this new focus. The Low Intensity Psychosis Pathway seeks to promote the personalised recovery and future care of those service users who are settled in mental health, and have an enduring diagnosis of psychosis, by working in partnership with people with psychosis and their carers to:
• offer help, treatment, and care in an atmosphere of hope and optimism
• take time to build supportive and empathic relationships as an essential part of this care.
This post attracts a recruitment premium: £1,500 on commencement of employment and a further £1,500 in arrears at the end of the first six months, followed by £3,000 in arrears at the end of 12 months. Terms & Conditions apply, Our successful candidate will:
• hold a strong belief in the rights of people with severe and enduring mental health problems to access community assets in their local neighbourhoods
• provide assessment and specific interventions to meet the needs of service users, their carers and families
• be a flexible practitioner who enjoys new challenges in meeting the developing needs of the service and our service users
• have an excellent understanding of the issues people with mental health needs and carry out interventions to a standard that ensures safe and effective care and complies with the NMC Code
In return, we can offer you:
• leadership and management training opportunities
• £6000 recruitment premium
• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing services
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.