Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT)
Community Mental Health Nurse
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Unique Opportunity for a Community Mental Health Nurse
We have a unique opportunity for a Community Mental Health Nurse to bring their expertise into the team, allowing professional development enhancing physical health skills, frailty and the impact this has on mental health.
About the Role
The Discharge to Assess Team supports people in Care homes/Nursing homes when increasing frailty affects their mental health. Following a Hospital Stay. The team helps prevent avoidable hospital admissions and reduces the need for secondary mental health services.
We work within primary care and closely with Hertfordshire County Council to provide early intervention, proactive support, and consistent care. This integrated approach ensures service users receive timely mental and physical health support, helping them stay safely in their preferred place of care working towards effective discharge if appropriate to meet their care needs.
As a ‘wrap around’ service, you will be linked in with various health and social care professionals to deliver a person-centered approach to the service user.
Main Duties of the Job
- Provide mental health assessment, risk assessment, and care plans to service users referred to the Discharge to Assess Team.
- Liaison with various professionals, family, carers, care home staff.
- Documentation and information gathering.
- Ability to identify conditions affecting older people and ageing.
- Coordination and liaison of appointments with service users, MDT’s, and care providers.
- Attend MDT’s – identifying appropriate referrals.
- Robust communication skills.
- Liaison with secondary mental health services when required.
- Compassionate and sensitive engagement with service users and families/carers.
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Requirements
- Candidates must be a car driver and have a mode of transport (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving) as a high degree of travel is required.
- Work will be undertaken in an office base and in care homes around the county.
- We encourage potential applicants to avoid the support of AI as we would like transparency and integrity from candidates.
- We can only consider applicants who do not require visa sponsorship.
Key Relationships
As the post holder will be working within the community most of the time, they will need to be establishing and maintaining positive relationships with people, agencies, charities, and other providers who also provide services to Older People in that community area. These relationships are vital, and team members should bear in mind that they will be representing HPFT.
Close working relationships should be developed with other parts of HPFT, notably Crisis teams and MHSOP’s; as well as Hertfordshire County Council’s Health and Community Services.
About Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT)
HPFT is an outstanding organization with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
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Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health, and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
Our Trust Values
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families, and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence, and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
- Welcoming
- Kind
- Positive
- Respectful
- Professional
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like to work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Suzanne Hathaway
- Job title: Integrated Care Team Lead
- Email address: s.hathaway@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07825833048
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