Community Mental Health Nurse - MHSOP

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in Welwyn Garden City seeks a Community Mental Health Nurse to enhance care for older adults. This position involves conducting assessments, developing care plans, and collaborating with a skilled multidisciplinary team. Candidates should be registered mental health nurses with at least two years of experience, including work with older patients. The role offers competitive salary and opportunities for career advancement within a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse with at least two years of experience.
• Experience working within older people's mental health services.
• Knowledge of mental health legislation.

Responsibilities

• Assess care needs and develop care plans.
• Act as care coordinator for service users.
• Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team.

Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Organizational skills

Ability to balance safety/risk

Initiative

Teamwork

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

AMHP (or willingness to undertake training)

Job description

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Community Mental Health Nurse - MHSOP

The closing date is 31 December 2025

We are excited to offer an opportunity for a Mental Health Nurse to join the Mental Health Older Adult Services. If you're passionate about mental health, looking to broaden your experience, and keen to make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you!

As a multi‑disciplinary team we provide holistic assessment and treatment pathways for older adults, and people with mental health and frailty needs. Our service provides seamless pathways between primary care and secondary care services for people with functional mental illness, and dementia.

We are looking for a dynamic Nurse who is passionate about the care of our older adult service users. We consider transferable skills from other areas of mental health services as valuable and a positive contribution to a well‑rounded team.

We cover the East locality of Hertfordshire, and our bases are Oxford House, Bishops Stortford, and Rosanne House, Welwyn Garden City. This role is to cover the Welwyn Garden City and surrounding area locality, with flexibility to support other areas of the East locality if needed.

As a team, we can offer multi‑disciplinary support from Clinical Psychologists, Consultant Psychiatrists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, as well as Mental Health Nurses. We also provide regular CPD sessions, reflective practice, staff support sessions, individual and group supervisions, and academic training, as well as access to external training resources.

Main duties of the job

As the band 6 Community Nurse, you will be expected to:

• Take responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and the setting of standards of care and management of a defined caseload, including liaison with other agencies and, where appropriate, the supervision, development and teaching of staff and/or students.
• Act as care coordinator to a case load of service users, ensuring the care plan is met at all times.
• Work as a member of the multi‑disciplinary team.

All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti‑Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.

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!

Job responsibilities

The post holder will: Be responsible for the full assessment of care needs and risk assessment of service users presenting with a wide variety of clinical conditions. Following this the post holder will be responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, without direct supervision (though clinical supervision is implemented as per policy to support you). To be named care coordinator, and act accordingly when applying care. To manage one self in a professional manner, responding to requests, enquiries etc in a timely fashion. To respond to any crisis that a service user may advise of, with the aim of promoting independent living in the community. Work with the philosophy to support service users to remain in their own home. Administer and/or supervise medications as required. To have a sound knowledge of medications and their desired and undesired effects, Be required to provide education, advise and guidance to service users and their carers and families. Provide a range of clinical interventions and treatments appropriate to the individual's needs. Participate fully in providing quality care in line with local and national guidelines. Act as a role model in providing a service for people with mental health problems. Participate in audit/research projects associated with the service. Be required to challenge practice that compromises or challenges high quality care to older people. To advise Team Manager of any resource short falls. To partake in continuing professional development that will also benefit the development and quality of the service. Remain updated with local and national guidelines and policies. Partake in home visits with other professionals such as Consultant Psychiatrist, Specialty Doctors, Social Workers etc. Partake in clinical and management supervision.

Person Specification

KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• AMHP (or willingness to undertake training)

AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

• Experience of multidisciplinary team working
• A minimum of two years post registration experience, one of which within older people's mental health services
• Up to date clinical knowledge.
• Knowledge of legislation related to mental health and social care (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, National Service Framework, National Dementia Strategy, Care Programme Approach etc).
• Experience of: 1) ward based nursing 2) community based nursing 3) working with enduring mental health clients 4) working with older adults with mental health conditions.
• Experience of managing other staff

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to feedback to multidisciplinary team.
• Excellent documentation of duties performed.
• Organisational skills.
• Initiative. Care Coordination
• High degree of literacy.
• Ability to balance safety/ risk.
• Experience of using electronic patient notes.
• Report writing skills

ANALYTICAL SKILLS

• Able to manage day to day issues.
• Be aware of own limitations.
• Believe in and promote strategy and philosophy of service
• Good range of information gathering skills.
• Ability to assess and manage risks
• Understand the importance of other agencies in making project work
• Good range of problem solving skills.

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.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)