Nurse, Social Worker or Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner

Job summary

This 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 .

There is 1 full time role available in Hemel Hempstead and another full time role in Watford.

Applications from Qualified Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners would also be welcome.

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 Watford.

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.

Kindly state at the top if your supporting statement, which location you are applying for.

Please note that this vacancy may close prior to the stated deadline due to a high volume of applications.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

Hold a graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health) OR have NMC registration as a mental health nurse OR 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

Job description

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
Essential

Professional qualifications at degree level or above
Membership of professional bodies

Desirable

Additional areas of training through short courses

Experience
Essential

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
Essential

oWorking knowledge of MHA (1983), CPA, Risk Assessment and Section 25 etc.
oCar driver

Essential

Access to a vehicle with business insurance, full driving license.