CYPMHS West Nurse Practitioner

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; St Albans; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health trust in St Albans is seeking a qualified nurse to provide specialist interventions, supervise staff, and ensure high-quality care. The ideal candidate will have experience in mental health environments and hold relevant qualifications. This is a chance to join an 'Outstanding' rated organization with a commitment to staff development and wellbeing.

Benefits

Comprehensive training and development

Supportive work environment

Values-driven culture

Qualifications

• Experience in a mental health environment or NHS.
• Experience liaising with external agencies.
• Understanding of mental health problems affecting children.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist assessments and integrated care.
• Offer consultations and supervision to colleagues.
• Participate in supervision and professional development.

Skills

Leadership skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

RMHN / Social Worker Qualification

Degree level qualification or equivalent experience

Job description

Responsibilities

Taking responsibility for making a significant contribution to the nursing input, participating fully in the referral and allocation process, assessments, treatment, risk management, safeguarding vulnerable children and adults, care coordination of service users as well as contributing to case discussions and service-related meetings.

Offering consultations and supervision to colleagues and students as well as staff in other services.

• To develop and provide highly specialist evidence-based interventions for service users, drawing on a wide range of theoretical frameworks and treatment modalities.
• To deliver timely, accessible services through both clinic based and outreach models.
• To provide highly specialist advice and consultation regarding formulations and treatment to colleagues, external agencies working autonomously within professional guidelines.
• Care-coordinate a caseload of service users delivering highly specialist assessments and integrated care.
• Together with other team members to be responsible for developing nursing practice in the service including the supervision of both nursing colleagues and colleagues from other disciplines in the service.
• To actively participate in supervision, appraisal and professional development to enhance clinical skills, e.g. nurse prescribing.
• To chair/attend MDTs for all teams providing clinical sign off.
• To work collaboratively and provide nursing consultation to other relevant professions within HPFT and external agencies to build capacity in terms of the early identification and physical and psychological management of disorders and/or disability.
• To take a leading role for service innovation and development, including projects with other junior staff to ensure delivery of safe effective nursing.

Leadership and Staff Management Responsibility

Service Development and Improvement

Analytical and Judgmental Skills

Planning and Organizational Skills

An Understanding of Physical Working Conditions and Environment

Management of Information Resources,

• RMHN / Social Worker Qualification
• Degree level qualification or equivalent experience
• Willingness to complete further training and qualification identified as appropriate to the role
• Communications skills / Leadership training, Extensive experience of working with CYPMHS
• Leadership skills
• Range of work procedures and practices; base level of theoretical knowledge
• Knowledge and experience to deal with nonroutine issues such as problem solving for an area of work or developing alternative or additional procedure
• Knowledge of specialist functional / medical/legal terms, organisational policies and procedures
• Experience in a mental health environment or NHS, Experience in working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Experience liaising with external agencies and report writing
• Awareness of mental health problems affecting children and young people
• Experience and understanding of neurodevelopment difficulties, including Autism spectrum disorder Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
• Awareness of child protection policies and procedures, Pleasant and efficient telephone manner
• Professional approach when using email
• Friendly and welcoming manner when receiving visitors at reception
• Calm and efficient when resolving issues
• Able to provide and receive routine information requiring tact or persuasive skills, considering barriers to understanding. Eg. anxious patients cultural differences, language or communication difficulties.
• Able to clearly and accurately communicate routine information verbally and in writing, with patients and staff on, for example discharge, admission, transfer., Able to use their own judgement to find solutions to visitor/staff requests/needs through the use of analytical and problems solving skills
• Is able to confidently Escalate issues when necessary. Prioritise work Resolve conflicting diary appointments and schedules
• Able to maintain spreadsheets and analyse and disseminate data
• Candidates who require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the United Kingdom can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this position by assessing their circumstances against the criteria specified on the Check if you need a UK visa - GOV.UK website. We would encourage all applicants to review the criteria carefully to understand their eligibility for sponsorship.
• You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.

Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout, 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 4th 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