Job summary
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Nurse- Band 5 to Band 6 Development Post
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
Are you an ambitious band 5 Nurse looking to become a band 6? If so, please apply for this exciting development post.
Are you looking to work in a team that allows you to feel empowered and proud to be a Nurse? To work in an environment that will allow you to develop and flourish as a practitioner? Then the Harrow Healthy Ageing Community Mental Health service at Bentley House might just have what you’re looking for.
Our service is looking for staff to deliver high quality, evidence-based nursing interventions to our patients in the highly diverse areas of Harrow. In return we will offer you CNWLs highly regarded training and development pathway to develop you into a more highly skilled practitioner.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Main duties of the job
As a Community Nurse you will be the linked worker for a caseload of patients offering assessments and interventions to promote recovery.
In return we can offer you;
- Flexible Working- opportunities to provide a healthy work-life balance
- On-site shadowing opportunities for you with our HTT, CMHT and Memory Clinic services to allow you to build relations and broaden your horizons.
- Enhanced supervision and career mapping to ensure continuous professional development. To support this we can offer specific training opportunities as identified for your personal development.
- Hidden Gem, annual award ceremonies and award-winning Staff Networks that have thousands of members and exciting events.
- Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme.
Working for our organisation
Why work with our team;
- In this development post, you will be provided additional supervision and support as well as community specific training.
- An opportunity to work with a close-knit team which look out for one-another and promote wellbeing in the workplace through regular social events and team catch-ups.
- We offer opportunities to stop, breathe and reflect through our highly appreciated Reflective Practice sessions and team Journal Clubs
- You will be working in a team that prides itself on promoting innovation and working to the highest standards of clinical care as evidenced by the services ongoing Quality Improvement Projects; our most recent project involved reducing staff caseloads which was a huge success.
- Our retention rates are fantastic and we have a lot to be proud of as a service. When people leave us, they do so for the right reasons. The top 3 being promotion, further education and retirement.
- Commitment from the team to develop you as a practitioner by offering coaching, supervision development, reflective practice and in-house development sessions
- Our service is based on the outskirt suburb areas of London. Harrow is surrounded by beautiful parks and greenery where our staff can take advantage of the more peaceful areas. With train links and buses taking you right outside our office and parking available in the surrounding areas, travelling to work has never been easier!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached JD and PS for more details.
The office base has good transport links via the Bakerloo line and has a comprehensive local bus network. Central London is just 15 minutes away via the fast Train Service to Euston that stops at Harrow and Wealdstone. Harrow has a good shopping centre that is accessed by a short bus journey from the office base and it is next to Harrow on the Hill train station.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current Professional Qualification in mental health nursing
- Registration must be live with professional body NMC
- Evidence of post registration training and CPD.
Desirable criteria
- Training in Psychosocial Interventions or Thorn Family Therapy/Work training; Other relevant training, e.g. substance misuse
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant years post registration experience
- Experience of working in multidisciplinary mental health team with clients with acute/severe and enduring mental health problems
Desirable criteria
- Work with clients with acute/severe and enduring mental health problems who are homeless/rootless
- Work with people experiencing mental health crisis.
- Supervision of students and junior staff.
- Audit and research;
- Teaching; Working with people who use substances
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including report writing and presentations / IT skills.
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate a comprehensive care package for the identified client group, using a wide range of resources.
- Able to develop a comprehensive programme of intervention and support for the identified client group and their families
Desirable criteria
- Skills in leadership: ability to motivate others, use initiative and manage change.
- Basic counselling and group work skills.
- Dual diagnosis/substance misuse
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vandana Datta
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07875 316580
- Additional information
We would be happy to welcome you for a visit or an informal chat to discuss the position further.
Luis Maungoo
Email - [email protected]
Phone Number 07740 514473
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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Argo House 180 Kilburn Park Road
London
NW6 5FA
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