Community Mental Health Nurse + £6000 Recruitment Pemia

Are you a qualified mental health nurse looking for a new challenge? Would you like to work for an outstanding Trust? 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.
  
  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 CommissionOur 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.
  
  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.