Senior Nurse Practitioner | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in London is seeking a motivated individual to join their team. The role involves comprehensive assessments and clinical decision-making for mental health patients. Ideal candidates will have experience in mental health assessments, extensive collaboration with teams, and strong judgment skills. This part-time position promotes evidence-based care and offers career development opportunities in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working

Career development

Diverse and inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• Experience in assessing mental health issues is essential.
• Ability to work collaboratively within diverse teams.
• Strong decision-making skills in complex cases.

Responsibilities

• Carry out comprehensive assessments for mental health patients.
• Make autonomous clinical decisions regarding patient admissions.
• Support Band 6 practitioners in complex consultations.
• Coordinate resources to address patient needs effectively.
• Promote service philosophy and strategic objectives.
• Deliver evidence-based nursing care in line with best practices.
• Participate in clinical supervision and mentor others.

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a motivated individual to join our exciting, friendly and supportive team. Sutton Primary Liaison Recovery Service (PLRS) includes a Single Point of Access (SPA) and a Primary Care Recovery Team. Sutton SPA screens, triages and provides assessment for working age adults aged 18 - 74 presenting with serious and or enduring mental illness and risk deemed too complex to be managed under Primary Care Services. Following assessment clinicians make appropriate onward referrals to internal and external teams with recommendations and signposting. We work closely with other teams to facilitate appropriate transfer of service users to internal teams within the trust including Adult Community Teams, Acute Care Pathway Services and Teams, Specialist Services and Taking Therapy Services. We also work in close partnership with GP commissioners and other key partners, including voluntary and third sector organisations.

Please note the role is part time 2 days a week only. The post holder will be responsible for carrying out comprehensive assessments. This will require working across the organisation and professional boundaries, to bring about improvement in the care and treatment of service users experiencing mental health issues and their families. They will develop an integrated service that functions as the front door for mental health patients accessing the service looking at service users mental, physical and social needs and making clear and clinically appropriate care plans, making appropriate referrals and communicating outcomes to service users, referrer, and family/carers.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

Responsibilities

• To be responsible for carrying out robust specialist assessments ensuring discharge from the service is clinically sound and timely whilst escalate for further clinical advice when clinically appropriate.
• To be responsible for making clear autonomous decisions based on an analysis of complex presenting problems and judgement about available options which will include those related to the admission and discharge of patients.
• To provide specialist consultation and support for Band 6 practitioners, assisting them in decision making in difficult and complex cases.
• To support with the triage of complex calls and escalation whilst carrying out the duty function.
• To coordinate resources across the whole service in order to meet more pressing needs and step down into other functions when clinically and operational required.
• To work with colleagues to develop and promote the service’s philosophy, framework of care delivery and strategic objectives, taking responsibility for specific areas of policy and strategy delivery.
• To work with colleagues to develop clinical expertise and high standards of nursing practice, as defined by the Nursing and Midwifery code of professional conduct (2015).
• To deliver care that is evidence based, reflecting current best practice and research.
• To participate in structured clinical supervision in accordance with Trust policies and procedures and to take responsibility for the supervision of nurses and others in non mental health settings working with patients with mental health problems.
• To demonstrate clinical excellence and high standards of nursing practice to other staff.
• To demonstrate sound understanding of the legal and ethical issues in caring for the mentally ill. In particular, demonstrating sound understanding of the Mental Health Act (1983)/Mental Capacity Act and its use in a non mental health setting.

This advert closes on Sunday 14 Sep 2025