Mental Health Practitioner, Developmental Role

Team: Ealing Southall MINT

Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, closed Bank Holidays.

Are you newly qualified and looking for fast progression from Band 5 to 6 ?

An exciting opportunity has become available for newly qualified nurses and Social Workers in Ealing Southall MINT. You will be supported through either a preceptorship programme (nurses) programme. This role is perfect for nurses that are keen to learn new skills quickly and advance their careers and become a band 6 worker. You will be joining at an exciting time as we transform our services following the Community Mental Health Framework. This framework represents a new approach to situating and providing place-based integrated support, care and treatment in the community for people with mental health problems whatever their level of need.

Community mental health nurses/social workers play a key role in dissolving the barriers that can exist between mental health and physical health, social care, voluntary and community social enterprise (VCSE) and local communities You will be working in primary and secondary care, to deliver integrated, personalised, place-based and well-coordinated care for adults and older adults. We are moving towards a 'whole system' of mental health care, which will provide timely access to support, care and treatment.

Main duties of the job

We need Community Mental Health Nurses to support people with mental health needs to access care where and when they need it and be able to move through the system easily. This role means supporting people to be able to manage their problems and move towards individualised recovery on their own terms, surrounded by their families, carers and social networks, and supported in their local community. We need Community Mental Health Nurses who can support individuals be able to contribute to and be participants in the communities that sustain them, to whatever extent is comfortable to them.

About us

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.

Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.

The Trust is rated as 'Good' overallby the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as 'Outstanding'.

The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Professional qualification in mental health - Mental Health Nursing (RMN) with current NMC registration
• Post qualification experience is not required.

Desirable

• Educated to degree or Diploma level with other courses relevant to primary care mental health services e.g. CBT, Brief Solution Focussed Therapy etc.
• RGN/physical health qualification
• Evidence of recent and on-going relevant further professional development

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of post qualifying work in psychiatry.
• Experience of supervising junior staff within own and/or other disciplines

Desirable

• Other relevant post registration experience
• Audit and research experience
• Experience of teaching/training in a formal or informal setting
• Experience of working in a primary care setting/ social care/ voluntary sector

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of counselling skills/cognitive behavioural skills, psychosocial interventions
• Knowledge of recovery approaches as used with those with mental health conditions
• Ability to interpret research and apply to practice
• Specialist knowledge of mental health conditions as well as their relationship to physical disorders
• Assessment and treatment of Deliberate Self Harm
• Risk assessment/management and crisis intervention skills
• Use of psychosocial assessment methods
• Ability to engage challenging and/or acutely distressed patients in potentially hostile and/or antagonistic situations and use de-escalation techniques effectively
• Higher level communication skills, both written and oral
• Sufficient clinical knowledge to be able to make autonomous decisions, based on an analysis of complex presenting problems and judgement about available options, with senior clinical support/supervision
• Team/self management and organisation skills that enable a number of complex activities and clinical work to be undertaken, revising and adjusting these according to the needs of individual patients and the service
• Computer literate

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Ability to frequently work under pressure and maintain intense concentration, particularly in unpredictable situations where there will be exposure to highly distressed and/or disturbed patients, often exhibiting challenging behaviours and the risk of physical violence
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Commitment to equal opportunities
• Ability to accept constructive feedback
• Self-motivated, able to work autonomously and independently with confidence when required.
• Exercise initiative, flexibility and tact and self awareness
• Willing to use peer and group supervision creatively
• Be able to work flexibly if required

Employer details

Employer name

West London NHS Trust

Address

Ealing Southall MINT

The Limes

Southall

UB2 4AU

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222-LS-MINT-296-A