Community Mental Health Nurse

We have an exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Nurse to take up a full-time position with the Community Mental Health Older Adult Services in North West Hertfordshire. 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 North West locality of Hertfordshire, and our base is The Marlowe's Health and Wellbeing Centre in Hemel Hempstead town. This role is to cover the Dacorum, St Albans and surrounding localities.

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 supervision, and academic training, as well as access to external training resources.

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 programs 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 a care coordinator to a caseload of service users, ensuring the care plan is met at all times.
• Work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Please check the job description for more information
  
  

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

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 4,000 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

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Josephine Sam Job title: Operational Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01442 275628