Community Mental Health Nurse
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below.When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
We are looking for enthusiastic nurses to join our Adult Community Mental Health Services in St Albans.
Our local Adult Community Mental Health Services are developing mini teams to enhance our clinic provision for medicines administration and physical health support. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your knowledge of nursing in a community setting, working closely with colleagues in a small supportive team, and making a real difference to the quality of services.
You must hold a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes – including business insurance – is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
- be part of a supportive multi-disciplinary team who work creatively, collaboratively and compassionately to deliver the very best standards of care
- have regular supervision, and continuing professional development opportunities
- provided with excellent learning and development opportunities for staff, as well as strengthening clinical research.
Newly registered Band 5 community nurses are supported in their transition from student to nurse through a 12 month preceptorship programme.
Working for our organisation
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?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To manage a patient caseload, identified and agreed in consultation with medical, nursing and other professions in the
To carry out specialist mental health care assessments. Develop, implement, evaluate and document specialist care. This will include frequent requirement for intense
To use a variety of clinical skills appropriate to the needs of the individual and the clinical setting in which they are
To provide ongoing interventions for people where assessment indicates this to be relevant to their
To be responsible for the administration, carriage and storage of medication in accordance with relevant Trust policies. To ensure safe disposal of equipment used in the Community e.g. syringes, needles, in accordance with Trust
To actively plan and participate in safe discharge from the service following agreed care pathway (CPA) as agreed with the MDT
To deliver care that is person centred and recovery focused, reflecting current best practice and challenge practice that may be detrimental to older people receiving high quality
To be aware of the physical needs of people with mental health problems and refer physical conditions on as
To use research findings in formulating nursing care plans and develop awareness of the significance of nursing research and wider evidence based practice in community mental health
Demonstrate an awareness of the needs of carers of service users with mental health problems and develop strategies to meet those needs; e.g. self-help groups, respite care, Carers
To participate in the Trust’s adverse incidents reporting systems and comply with the Trust’s procedure and techniques for managing risks.
For a more in-depth Job and Person Specification please see the document attached,Person specification
Knowledge/Training/Experience
Essential criteria- RMN or Dip / BSc (Hons) in Mental Health Nursing
- ENB 998 / Preceptorship and Mentorship.
Experience
Essential criteria- Experienced post registration at Band 5 in a relevant mental health setting or if newly qualified will participate in the Trusts Preceptorship Scheme
- Experience in working with acute mental health problems in a community setting
SKILLS/ KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Essential criteria- Knowledge of MHA (1983), CPA, Risk Assessment and Section 25 etc.
- Effective multi professional team communication & team working.
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care with supervision
- Medication administration.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Understanding primary/secondary care interface
- Successful change experiences
About us
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 so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Additional Information
HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
Infection Control
All our staff will need to comply with current Infection Prevention and Control measures which could include wearing a mask on all our Trust sites and in all roles