Nurse, Social Worker or Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner

NHS; Radlett; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust seeks a Nurse, Social Worker, or Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner for its Early Intervention in Psychosis Service in Hertfordshire. This role involves working collaboratively to provide personalized care to individuals experiencing first-episode psychosis. Candidates must be registered professionals with experience in mental health settings, dedicated to delivering high-quality services.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Support with Preceptorship or AYSE

Qualifications

• Registered with NMC as a mental health nurse or Social Work England as a social worker.
• Experience in mental health settings.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Conduct relevant risk assessments with the multi-disciplinary team.
• Create care plans with service users and their families.
• Deliver Family Interventions for psychosis.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Collaboration

Education

Professional qualifications at degree level or above

Job description

Go back Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Nurse, Social Worker or Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner

The closing date is 02 July 2025

This secondment or fixed term vacancy is suitable for a newly qualified social worker or mental health nurse with experience in the field of mental health. We would support with Preceptorship or AYSE .

We would love you to join our friendly specialist team in the Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Service - PATH (Psychosis: Prevention, Assessment and Treatment in Hertfordshire). Our service users are people experiencing psychosis for the first time and we are committed to delivering personalised and meaningful care.

The role will be working in the South West of Hertfordshire in a specified geographical area, based in Borehamwood.

We welcome applications from candidates interested in full time, part time, job sharing. We are committed to supporting flexible working options for staff, wherever possible, and welcome discussions on flexible working patterns to support our staff to maintain a healthy work life balance.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

• have NMC registration as a mental health nurseOR have or Social Work England registration as a social worker
• carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team
• engage with and gather information from service users, relatives, and patient records to develop a formulation
• work in collaboration with the individual service user and their family and carers as appropriate to develop care plans that are focused on strengths and are outcome based
• plan and deliver Family Interventions for psychosis (FIP), in line with best practice

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 4000 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?

Job responsibilities

All nurses must be registered with the NMC. All Social Workers must be registered with Social Work England. OTs must be registered with HCPC.

You will be an active member of a unique mini team model, supporting the care coordinator in planning and delivering a care plan and wider multi-disciplinary team.

You will work in close co-operation with hospital based, primary care-based professionals, other community agencies such as Housing, Probation, Police, Substance misuse, Children Schools & Families and Voluntary Agencies.

You will be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for a defined caseload of people with first episode psychosis and and maintaining associated records.

The core functions are to undertake integrated health and social care assessments, supporting the care coordinator in delivering a care plan within a framework of recovery which embraces each individuals right to choose and control.

The role requires skills in assessing, planning, organising, reviewing and delivering recovery oriented and evidence-based interventions to support the recovery of service users, as agreed with supervising clinician(s). This work will be in accordance with clinical governance processes and professional standards.

For a detailed Job and Person Specification please read attached before applying

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional qualifications at degree level or above
• Membership of professional bodies
• Additional areas of training through short courses

Experience

• oExperience at in a relevant mental health setting
• oEvidence of continuing professional development.
• oAbility to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care with supervision.

Knowledge

• oWorking knowledge of MHA (1983), CPA, Risk Assessment and Section 25 etc.
• access to a vehicle with business insurance, full driving license

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

Address

3 Bowlers Green, Radlett, WD7 9HQ and Borehamwood

£31,469 to £38,308 a yearper annum pro rata (5% fringe HCAS included)

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time,Flexible working,Compressed hours

Reference number

367-ACMS-9431

Job locations

3 Bowlers Green, Radlett, WD7 9HQ and Borehamwood