Community Mental Health Nurse with Recruitment Incentive inWatford inWatford PUBLISHED FRI 10 JAN 2025

Are you a qualified mental health nurse looking for a new challenge?

Would you like to work for an outstanding Trust?

The Hertfordshire Adult Mental Health Community Transformation Programme is implementing new mini teams within Adult Mental Health services to focus support and give more time to care for service users with low intensity psychosis - a new Low Intensity Psychosis Pathway.

This Band 6 post will be the named nurse lead for the new mini team in a specified Adult Mental Health Service, working closely with the Clinical Nurse Specialist and the MDT of the service to support this new focus.

The Low Intensity Psychosis Pathway seeks to promote the personalised recovery and future care of those service users who are settled in mental health, and have an enduring diagnosis of psychosis, by working in partnership with people with psychosis and their carers to:

• offer help, treatment, and care in an atmosphere of hope and optimism
• take time to build supportive and empathic relationships as an essential part of this care.

This post attracts a recruitment premium: £1,500 on commencement of employment and a further £1,500 in arrears at the end of the first sixmonths, followed by £3,000 in arrears at the end of 12 months. Terms & Conditions apply

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Our successful candidate will:

• hold a strong belief in the rights of people with severe and enduring mental health problems to access community assets in their local neighbourhoods
• provide assessment and specific interventions to meet the needs of service users, their carers and families
• be a flexible practitioner who enjoys new challenges in meeting the developing needs of the service and our service users
• have an excellent understanding of the issues people with mental health needs and carry out interventions to a standard that ensures safe and effective care and complies with the NMC Code

In return, we can offer you:

• leadership and management training opportunities
• £6000 recruitment premium
• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing services
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.

About us

To lead a mini team of staff to oversee the holistic care of service users on the Low Intensity Psychosis Pathway.

To carry a clinical caseload and fulfil the named nurse role.

To undertake comprehensive health needs and risk assessments(including capacity assessments) and develop a care plan in accordance with identified needs establishing specialistcourse of responsibilities/actions based on Recovery Principles.

To carry out joint assessment with other MDT members as required.

To be aware of and comply with the relevant mental health and workrelated legislation and policy at all times.

To provide relevant up to date evidence based information abouttreatment/intervention that enables service users to make informedchoices about their care.

To deliver evidence based care in a timely manner.

To make reactive recommendations as necessary when working alonein the community.

For a more in depth Person and Job Specification please see the attached documents