• Free access to our Staff and Wellbeing service to ensure that you are always looking after yourself
• Commitment to career mapping to ensure continuous professional development including opportunities within the Trust
• On-site shadowing opportunities including HTT, Psych Liaison and many more
• An opportunity to work with a friendly, dynamic, passionate and diverse team who are committed to looking after each other as well as their patients
• Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, blue light card, discounts at Nando's and Superdrug, mobile phone contracts and much more!
• Award-winning Staff Networks
• Hidden Gem & annual award ceremonies

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Receive and process GP referrals, undertaking comprehensive psychosocial mental health assessments to determine presenting needs, risks, and appropriate care pathways.
• Act as a key liaison point for aligned GP practices, providing advice and collaborative support regarding patients with complex mental health presentations and/or co-morbid conditions.
• Screen routine and enhanced GP adult mental health referrals, identifying those suitable for primary care management in line with agreed thresholds and taking into account the mental health resources available within individual practices.
• Facilitate timely onward referral and rapid access to appropriate services, including Hub pathways, specialist mental health teams, or external agencies, in accordance with established protocols, thresholds, and criteria. Provide guidance to referring GPs on effective management where appropriate.
• Ensure early identification and fast-tracking of individuals who present with indicators of severe mental illness or significant risk.
• Identify, respond to, and appropriately escalate safeguarding concerns, ensuring timely action and adherence to local safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Refer patients with common mental health problems to primary care psychological therapy services or other relevant community resources.
• Regularly engage with GPs and practice nurses within aligned Primary Care Network practices to support integrated, collaborative care.
• Deliver and maintain high standards of professional mental health care, applying a psychosocial, problem-solving, and evaluation-based approach.
• Use a range of therapeutic techniques and evidence-based interventions tailored to individual needs and service requirements.
• Participate in the Hub duty rota, contributing to timely triage, decision-making, and support for incoming referrals.
• Demonstrate cultural competence, taking into account social determinants of mental health and respecting the diverse cultures, values, customs, beliefs, and spiritual practices of all clients, particularly those from minority ethnic communities.
• Engage in regular clinical supervision, as agreed with the Mental Health Hub Manager, to support safe, effective, and reflective practice.
• Support the operation of the Hub depot clinic as required, as part of a shared rota.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current Professional Qualification in Mental Health Nursing.
• Registration must be live with UK NMC professional body.
• Evidence of post-registration training and CPD.

Desirable criteria

• Training in Psychosocial Interventions or Thorn Family Therapy/Work training
• Other relevant training, e.g. psychosocial interventions

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in multidisciplinary mental health team with clients with acute/severe and enduring mental health problems
• Extensive post-registration experience

Desirable criteria

• Work with clients with acute/severe and enduring mental health problems who are homeless/rootless
• Work with people experiencing mental health crisis
• Supervision of students and junior staff.
• Audit and research
• Working with people who use substances
• Teaching

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including report writing and presentations / IT skills.
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate a comprehensive care package for the identified client group, using a wide range of resources.
• Able to develop a comprehensive programme of intervention and support for the identified client group and their families.
• Ability to carry out a comprehensive assessment and make autonomous plans.
• Skills in risk assessment and management.
• Can demonstrate understanding of psychosis and its impact on service users and carers.
• Knowledge of current legislation and guidance applicable to this client group.
• Can demonstrate understanding of the needs of diverse groups, e.g. residents of inner city; black and minority ethnic groups, and skills in engaging with them.
• Skills in psychosocial interventions.
• Able to build constructive relationships with clients and carers using warmth and empathy, using good communication skills.

Desirable criteria

• Skills in leadership: ability to motivate others, use initiative and manage change.
• Basic counselling and group work skills.