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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
306-BEH-2635
Employer
306 North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Redhill Clinic
Town
Edgware
Salary
拢42,939 - 拢50,697 Per annum including HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
13/03/2025 23:59

Employer heading

306 North London NHS Foundation Trust logo

Community Mental Health Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:听

  • Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
  • Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
  • Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
  • Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
  • Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
  • Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. 听We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: 听

Job overview

We are looking to recruit two Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse with a passion for working with people with mental health condition.

This is a well established, high performing team delivering compassionate care in the community to adults who suffer from mental health problem. 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 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

  • To work as a Care-coordinator within the team in the planning, delivery, co-ordination and evaluation of assessments and formulation
  • To work closely and collaboratively with other members of the team including Psychologists Medical professionals and other Allied Professionals to provide optimal
  • To carry out complex person-centred assessments.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • To support and mentor less experienced staff, support workers and students from related professional backgrounds who are on placement within the team.
  • To undertake duties designed to extend clinical and managerial expertise as delegated by the Team Manager when required.
  • To undertake comprehensive outcome monitoring of all referrals.

Working for our organisation

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 supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

  4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.听

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 fall 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria
  • 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 criteria
  • 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 criteria
  • Registered Mental Health Nurse

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • 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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareJob share policyCare Leaver Covenant

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Caroline Okolie
Job title
Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02087024012