Job summary
We are looking for an experienced mental health nurse to join our busy and dynamic Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) based in Watford, West Hertfordshire.
You will be:
- An experienced clinician working with service users at various phases of their mental health.
- Passionate about making a difference for individuals and their carer's during their personal journey.
- Ambitious to work within this challenging role, in a challenging environment, with real scope to develop and influence practice.
Main duties of the job
The role:
- Providing urgent assessments to those considered to have acute mental health concerns and to robust home treatment options as an alternative to hospital admission.
- A role that is varied and challenging, offering an opportunity to work in a variety of settings, with people with a variety of mental health needs.
- As gatekeepers for hospital admission, you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide safe and effective treatment in the community, and facilitate early discharges from the acute inpatient units.
- Working collaboratively with our service users, their carer's and our colleagues to positively manage risk in the acute care pathway, whilst enabling and empowering an individuals' recovery journey.
The Team:
- Exceptional service in an organisation with big ambitions.
- We are a team looking for enthusiastic clinicians that are positive about leading future change and development, to ensure the highest standards of care are available to our service users.
- As a University Trust, we have close links to the University of Hertfordshire, and our team have optimised this opportunity in providing excellent learning and development opportunities to our staff.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services, including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on...
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role please refer to the job description and person specification documents attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role please refer to the job description and person specification documents attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN or Dip/Bsc (Hons) in Mental Health Nursing
Desirable
- ENB 812/Bsc in Specialist Community Nursing Practice (Mental Health).
- ENB 998/Preceptorship and Mentorship
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential
- At least 2 years post-registration experience with at least one year at band 6
- Experience in acute and community areas.
- Experience in care planning, change management and use of Microsoft Office
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Knowledge of physical health contributions to Mental Health issues, difficulties and assessment
Desirable
- Experience in working with acute mental health problems in community setting
Job-related aptitude and skills
Essential
- An understanding of the needs of people with acute mental health problems
- Ability to communicate effectively within a multi- professional team.
- Confidence to work autonomously in the community and use own initiative, and make decisions in complex situations.
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or reassuring skills are required
- A good team player
- Ability to deal with distressing circumstances and challenging behaviour.
- Experience of risk assessment in an acute / community setting.
- Ability to work well in a team setting.
- Ability to cope with an unpredictable work pattern and frequent interruptions
- Understanding of legal framework and social factors involved in community care.
- Supervision skills.
- Multi-professional working/case management
- Ability to use computer skills for entering clinical notes on the electronic patient records, driving, utilise the keyboard to manipulate spreadsheets, etc., clinical skills
- o Ability to deal with distressing circumstances and challenging behaviour.
- ability to concentrate, frequency and consequences of interruptions. Include if the patient group has limited understanding or challenging behaviour
- Experience with risk assessment in an acute / community setting
- Ability to work well in a team setting.
- Ability to cope with an unpredictable work pattern, deal with distressing or emotionally charged situations and frequent interruptions
- Understanding of legal framework and social factors involved in community care
- Supervision skills.
Desirable
- Specific clinical skills applicable in an acute community setting e.g. brief therapy, cognitive therapy, and anxiety management
- Service development
- Operational policy development.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN or Dip/Bsc (Hons) in Mental Health Nursing
Desirable
- ENB 812/Bsc in Specialist Community Nursing Practice (Mental Health).
- ENB 998/Preceptorship and Mentorship
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential
- At least 2 years post-registration experience with at least one year at band 6
- Experience in acute and community areas.
- Experience in care planning, change management and use of Microsoft Office
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Knowledge of physical health contributions to Mental Health issues, difficulties and assessment
Desirable
- Experience in working with acute mental health problems in community setting
Job-related aptitude and skills
Essential
- An understanding of the needs of people with acute mental health problems
- Ability to communicate effectively within a multi- professional team.
- Confidence to work autonomously in the community and use own initiative, and make decisions in complex situations.
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or reassuring skills are required
- A good team player
- Ability to deal with distressing circumstances and challenging behaviour.
- Experience of risk assessment in an acute / community setting.
- Ability to work well in a team setting.
- Ability to cope with an unpredictable work pattern and frequent interruptions
- Understanding of legal framework and social factors involved in community care.
- Supervision skills.
- Multi-professional working/case management
- Ability to use computer skills for entering clinical notes on the electronic patient records, driving, utilise the keyboard to manipulate spreadsheets, etc., clinical skills
- o Ability to deal with distressing circumstances and challenging behaviour.
- ability to concentrate, frequency and consequences of interruptions. Include if the patient group has limited understanding or challenging behaviour
- Experience with risk assessment in an acute / community setting
- Ability to work well in a team setting.
- Ability to cope with an unpredictable work pattern, deal with distressing or emotionally charged situations and frequent interruptions
- Understanding of legal framework and social factors involved in community care
- Supervision skills.
Desirable
- Specific clinical skills applicable in an acute community setting e.g. brief therapy, cognitive therapy, and anxiety management
- Service development
- Operational policy development.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
