Registered Mental Health Nurse Development Post Band 5 to 6

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a Registered Mental Health Nurse for a development post in London. The role involves delivering high-quality nursing interventions, conducting assessments, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to support adults in the community. Opportunities for professional development and training are provided, ensuring a supportive environment for career growth.

Benefits

Additional supervision and support

Community-specific training

Commitment to professional development

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (Mental Health) required.
• Experience working with severe mental health problems essential.
• Ability to build therapeutic relationships and work in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for care and support of a defined caseload.
• Conduct health and social care needs assessments.
• Administer medication and monitor treatment.

Skills

Communication skills

Empathy

Therapeutic relationship building

Education

Registered Nurse (Mental Health)

Relevant post basic training

Job description

Registered Mental Health Nurse Development Post Band 5 to 6

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Job Overview

To work in an environment that will allow you to develop and flourish as a practitioner? Then the North Kensington might just have what you’re looking for.

Job Overview

To work in an environment that will allow you to develop and flourish as a practitioner? Then the North Kensington might just have what you’re looking for.

Our North hub is looking for both to deliver high quality, evidence-based nursing interventions to our patients in the highly diverse areas of Kensington and Chelsea.

Interview date : 17 or 18 June 2025

Main duties of the job

• To be accountable for the care and support of a defined caseload of adults of working age.
• To screen for health and social care needs (including accommodation, finances, and support in accessing education, training or employment) and negotiate care plans with service users and their carers, remaining objective when working with diagnostic uncertainty and undertake assessments of need (in compliance with the Care Act 2014).
• To undertake risk assessments and develop robust risk management plans, according to Trust policy.
• To safely administer and store medication as needed in the community and ensure that relevant Pharmacy guidelines and policies are adhered to.
• To monitor treatment, support concordance and ensure prompt action is taken to alleviate unwanted effects of prescribed medication.
• To ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies, within the DIALOG+ framewor
  
  

Please note : this role requires successful candidates to be able to engage in Therapeutic Management of Violence and Aggression (TMVA) training, including the use of force techniques and the ability to attend resus training and perform CPR. This is because of the high-acuity nature of the ward environment and the need to ensure the safety of both patients and staff. The role is conditional upon candidates being able to engage in TMVA training and resus training during the course of their employment whilst undertaking this role.

Working for our organisation

• In this development post, you will be provided additional supervision and support as well as community-specific training.
• You will be working in a team that prides itself on promoting innovation and working to the highest standards of clinical care as evidenced by the services ongoing Quality Improvement Projects
• Commitment from the team to develop you as a practitioner by offering coaching, supervision development, reflective practice and in-house development sessions
• The Hub is located in exciting and vibrant areas of London; with the North Hub situated near the culturally diverse Portobello Road
• All patients that come under the site are within walking distance!
  
  

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To provide access to, and ongoing, psycho-education and health promotion regarding illness, disability and health to service users and families.
• To provide interventions and to work with other disciplines/agencies/teams in the care of service users experiencing co-morbid problems with substance use/misuse.
• To engage the service user and their family in relapse prevention and crisis planning, provide, and coordinate interventions that maximise the service users’ ability to resolve crises, remain at home and avoid the need for hospitalisation.
• To deliver a flexible and responsive service through working practices that are dictated by service user/carer need and contribute to the provision of service continuity including outside normal working hours when necessary.
• To receive referrals from GPs and undertake comprehensive psycho-social mental health assessments to establish care needs.
• To identify where best those needs can be met and facilitate signposting, onward referral or rapid access to relevant professionals and services and/or to provide support/advice to the referring GP on effective management.
• To act as a contact point and provide a link/liaison role to GP practices with regard to patients with more complex mental health problems and/or co-morbidities
• To ensure early detection and fast tracking of clients with severe mental health problems.
• To provide a range of appropriate short and longer term, evidence based, psycho-social interventions for clients with more complex and severe, enduring mental illnesses (SMI) with the aim of preventing deterioration, relapse and longer-term intervention from mental health services and to help the service user and their family to reduce and manage symptoms, high risk behaviour and other disabling effects of psychosis with the aim of achieving, as far as possible, a full and sustained recovery.
• To prioritise time and workload, in a flexible manner to meet community caseload responsibilities, participate in meetings and effectively develop personal skills knowledge and experience through supervision and training.
• To ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies.
• To ensure that the principles of personalisation and individualised choice are inherent in the assessment and care planning process, including maximising service user’s access to direct payments and personal budgets.
• To identify appropriate resources, including residential and nursing placements and follow the Local Authority policy and procedures in order to access such services.
• To support the wider team as necessary in providing regular comprehensive review of placements and services commissioned by the Local Authority for service users, in line with Local Authority policy and procedures
• To provide access to, and ongoing, psycho-education and health promotion regarding illness, disability and health to service users and families
• To ensure Safeguarding Children and Adult procedures are fully understood by self and others. To ensure the safety needs of children and adults are met at all times and take appropriate action when a child or adult is felt to be at risk or in need.
• To provide interventions and to work with other disciplines/agencies/teams in the care of service users experiencing co-morbid problems with substance use/misuse.
• To engage the service user and their family in relapse prevention and crisis planning, provide, and coordinate interventions that maximise the service users’ ability to resolve crises, remain at home and avoid the need for hospitalisation.
• To understand the social factors which are relevant to mental health problems and to be aware of and respectful of the cultures, customs, values and spiritual/religious practices and beliefs of all clients, regardless of age, culture, ethnicity and gender, sexuality and disability.
• To support the safe step down of patients not currently requiring mental health services, with a focus on enabling GP practices to provide effective, continuing care and to ensure access to support in terms wider social and social inclusion/self-management needs.
• To prioritise time and workload, in a flexible manner to meet community caseload responsibilities, participate in meetings and effectively develop personal skills knowledge and experience through supervision and training. If admission to hospital becomes necessary, to provide regular, formal, joint Inpatient review to ensure the service user is transferred/discharged to the lowest stigma/least restrictive environment as soon as clinically possible.
• To maintain standards of professional conduct at all times and observe the legal requirements of the MHA (1983), its Code of Practice, The Children Act (1989) The Mental Capacity Act (2005), Care Act (2014) and other relevant legislation and guidance.
  
  

Person specification

Education And Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse (Mental Health)
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Relevant post basic training
  
  

Previous Experience

Essential criteria

• Working with users who have severe and enduring mental health problems in ether an inpatient or community setting
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Able to assess, design, deliver and evaluate health and social care packages involving services users and carers.
• Keeping accurate records and use of IT systems
  
  

Skills, Knowledge, Abilities

Essential criteria

• Able to build therapeutic relationships using good communication skills that show warmth and empathy
• Clear understanding & commitment to implementing Equal Opportunities for care delivery & staff in a multicultural community.
• Able to develop effective working relationships with families, carer’s & other agencies both statutory and non-statutory.
• Working knowledge of Nursing standards
• Understanding of clinical and managerial supervision
• Able to use computer skills.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Basic counselling skills
  
  

ATTITUDES, APTITUDES PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

Essential criteria

• Able to communicate effectively in English; verbally, in writing and through presentations
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team.
  
  

Other

Essential criteria

• Awareness of Health & Safety issues
• Willingness to undertake statutory, mandatory and other training & professional development
• Able to recognise signs of stress in self & others

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care, Non-profit Organizations, and Government Administration

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