Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-LS-MINT-289
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hounslow East MINT
- Town
- Brentford
- Salary
- £34,521 - £41,956 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/12/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 17/12/2024
Employer heading
Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Band 5
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
Hounslow Mental Health Integrated Network Team (MINT) is a dynamic and integrated community and outpatient mental health team committed to providing comprehensive and high-quality mental and physical health care that addresses the needs of our diverse community. We accept referrals for service users transitioning from Children & Adolescents up to Specialist Older Adults. We are currently seeking to expand our multidisciplinary team and are inviting applications for the position of Mental Health Nurse. This opportunity will allow you to work alongside a dedicated team of professionals focused on improving the mental and physical health of our community under the Community Mental Health Framework for adults.
You will play a key role in dissolving the barriers that can exist between mental and physical health, social care, voluntary and community social enterprise (VCSE) and local communities. You will be working in secondary care, Monday to Friday, to deliver integrated, personalised, place-based and well-coordinated care for adults. We are moving towards a ‘whole system’ of mental health care, which will provide timely access to support, care and treatment.
Main duties of the job
As a community based Mental Health Nurse your duties will include but not be limited to:
§ Autonomously carry a caseload of routine to complex cases updating care plans and risk assessments as required
§ Screening patients for physical and mental health needs such as weight management, diabetes risks and smoking cessation and providing education to manage these.
§ Assist with management and administration of the local depot and physical health clinics
§ Medication management including monitoring of stock levels of the service to enable nursing staff to administer depots
§ Provide advice to service users and their triangle of care on the management of their mental and physical health, medications and any contraindications
§ Liaise with external stakeholders such as GPs, primary care networks, inpatient wards, crisis teams, social care and housing regarding ongoing needs
§ Assist with the transfer of cases between services or back to the GP at the end of treatment.
§ Escalate concerns to wider MDT using local processes
§ Identify and participate in local and service line service improvement using approved methodology
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification in mental health. Registered Nurse on the NMC register
Desirable criteria
- Educated to degree or Diploma level with other courses relevant to primary care mental health services e.g. CBT, Brief Solution Focussed Therapy etc
- RGN/physical health qualification
- Evidence of recent and on-going relevant further professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of post qualifying work in psychiatry.
- Experience of supervising junior staff within own and/or other disciplines
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of experience in a Band 5 position or equivalent
- Other relevant post registration experience
- Audit and research experience
- Experience of teaching/training in a formal or informal setting
- Experience of working in a primary care setting/ social care/ voluntary sector
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of counselling skills/cognitive behavioural skills, psychosocial interventions
- Knowledge of recovery approaches as used with those with mental health conditions
- Ability to interpret research and apply to practice
- Specialist knowledge of mental health conditions as well as their relationship to physical disorders.
- Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and clinical records data bases (e.g. SystmOne or RiO)
Skills
Essential criteria
- Assessment and treatment of Deliberate Self Harm
- Risk assessment/ management and crisis intervention skills
- Use of psycho-social assessment methods
- Higher level communication skills, both written and oral
- Ability to engage challenging and/ or acutely distressed patients in potentially hostile and/ or antagonistic situations and use de-escalation techniques effectively.
- Sufficient clinical knowledge to be able to make autonomous decisions, based on an analysis of complex presenting problems and judgement about available options, with senior clinical support/ supervision
- Team/ self-management and organisation skills that enable a number of complex activities and clinical work to be undertaken, revising and adjusting these according to the needs of individual patients and the service
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to frequently work under pressure and maintain intense concentration, particularly in unpredictable situations where there will be exposure to highly distressed and/ or disturbed patients, often exhibiting challenging behaviours and the risk of physical violence.
- Ability to meet deadlines.
- Commitment to equal opportunities
- Ability to accept feedback.
- Self-motivated, able to work autonomously and independently with confidence when required.
- Exercise initiative, flexibility and tact and self-awareness.
- Willing to use peer and group supervision creatively.
- Be able to work flexibly if required
- Be aware of the limitations in your competencies and seek appropriate senior advice and leadership.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Georgina Hyslop.
- Job title
- Team manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For more information or an informal discussion please contact Peter Tabot, Lead Practitioner, by emailing [email protected] or Georgina Hyslop, Team Manager, by emailing [email protected] or phone 020 8483 2816.
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