West London NHS Trust
Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
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Band 5 Mental Health Nurses Role
This community-based role is key in providing professional nursing interventions for the mental and physical health needs of our client group and to support them to engage with their local communities and benefit from all the supports available locally. The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team of medics, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, link workers, and peer support workers.
Objectives of the Services
- To consider an individual’s needs holistically – mental and physical health as well as social needs
- To reduce the need for repeated long assessments and storytelling
- To provide early advice and guidance with signposting to the relevant services where appropriate, therefore supporting individuals to make full use of community resources available
- To bridge the gaps that can appear between community mental health care and primary care, acute care, social services, and support.
Duties
The mental health nurse in the Mental Health Integrated Network Team (MINT) will have a number of key roles and will undertake the following duties:
Clinical
- Provide holistic and specialist bio-psycho-social assessment for anyone experiencing mental health difficulties and offer specialist nursing assessment where required
- Provide advice to primary care to help them provide better support to patients and to (where preferable) meet their mental health needs within a primary care setting
- Carry out robust risk assessments, working collaboratively with the patient and their carer to provide a plan that will support them remaining safe
- Provide access to a broad range of specialist psychosocial interventions for individual patients where needed
- Provide expert advice regarding the pharmacological treatment options available to mental health patients to patients and non-mental health professionals, seeking clinical guidance from the designated Consultant Psychiatrist/GP in relation to any specific prescribing advice
- Where required, nurses working within the team will administer intramuscular medication to patients for whom this is prescribed, assessing the effects and side effects at each appointment, working within the NMC guidelines and the Trust’s medicines policies
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About the Trust
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.
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Our high secure services care for patients from the 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’ overall by 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.
Contact for Further Details / Informal Visits
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Name: Lynda Mugabi
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Job Title: Senior Practitioner/ Clinical Lead
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Email Address: Lynda.mugabi2@nhs.net
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Alternative Contact: nisha.soocheta1@nhs.net
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