Job summary
- Main area
- CPN
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Bank - VISA Sponsorship not supported on the Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - 37.5 hours per week (Bank)
- Job ref
- 367-Bank-CPN-Borehamwood
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hertsmere Civic Offices, Elstree Way, Borehamwood, WD6 1WA
- Town
- Borehamwood
- Salary
- £38,682 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Band 6, CPN, Borehamwood - SW1349
Band 6
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
Job overview
We are currently seeking an experienced Community Mental Health Band 6 Nurse to work within one of our Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) via a Bank Contract, based in Borehamwood for our Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) South Team.
You will be joining our Temporary Staffing Team within the HPFT - Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.
This role will include working with young people from the age of 13 up to 18, providing an enhanced community service, within young people’s homes, as an outreach service of community specialist CYPMHS service.
HPFT provides services for service users with mental health, learning disability and children’s and adolescent mental health problems. Applicants should have some experience of working in a healthcare setting.
HPFT has a range of healthcare settings across the County and therefore access to a car would be beneficial unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving
All applicants need to hold a valid NMC Statement of Entry and should have completed Preceptorship and can evidence this.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the clinical and operational service delivery, ensuring individualised comprehensive assessments of Children and Young People (CYP) in the community, and support colleagues in the care management service of complex clinical pathways ensuring it is effectively delivered.
The post holder will be accountable for delivering a quality of service that is supportive, and be efficient to provide advice and support to other members of staff, in line with the organisation’s objectives and performance indicators of the Choice and Partnership Approach (CAPA) model.
You will be required to develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues within the Trust and other relevant services and organisation, in order to maintain a safe and effective service.
Responsibilities will include the clinical and operational supervision of junior nursing staff and students, as delegated by the team manager.
The post holder must be competent in using IT and have the relevant skills to carry out the activities required for the post
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Support the Team Leader in establishing and maintaining effective inter team and inter agency communication.
· Provide effective liaison/communication throughout the care pathway to service users, their carers and others, responding sensitively to all needs especially in highly emotive settings
· Maintain effective joint work with others, develop positive working relationships alongside the Specialist CYPMH Clinicians and clear communication with Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) and with other external professionals.
· Will be able to undertake assessments for service users who meet the service eligibility criteria, and their family. To formulate a care plan and risk assessment, review its effectiveness and re-plan using evidence based interventions to best effect in partnership with the service user.
· Will be expected to identify and respond to presentations of managing risk and promote the safety and wellbeing of the service user.
· Plan, organise and prioritise resources and daily tasks to meet service and organisational needs
· Take a leading role in the day-to-day management of the service supporting the team, including recruitment retention, attendance of mandatory professional meetings, as required.
· Document service user care by recording information on electronic care records, demonstrating keyboard skills.
· Have access to your own vehicle in order to travel between bases.
· Carry out joint assessments with other MDTs as required.
· Undertake comprehensive health needs and risk assessments (including capacity assessments) and develop a care plan in accordance with identified needs establishing specialist course of responsibilities/actions based on formulations of the recovery principles.
· Provide effective professional supervision/mentorship of junior staff and students assessing proficiencies of practice as required.
· Comply with the relevant Trust and service financial policies and procedures
Please see JD attached for further information and responsibilities required
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN or Dip/Bsc (Hons) in Mental Health Nursing
Desirable criteria
- ENB 812/Bsc in Specialist Community Nursing Practice (Mental Health)
Experience and Attainments
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a range of settings relevant to the post
- At least 2 years of post-registration experience with experience at Band 5
- Experience of working in acute mental health inpatient/day care services
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with acute mental health problems in a community setting.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Clinical risk assessment and management in a community setting
Desirable criteria
- Ability to make presenations using multi-media materials suitable for presentation.
Other
Essential criteria
- Car Driver - Able to travel independently across the Trust
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kayleigh Hammond
- Job title
- Temporary Staffing, Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07971639506
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