Community Mental Health Nurse

Community Mental Health Nurse Band 6 Camden South Core Team Community Mental Health Services are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation. North London Foundation Trust are at the forefront of this transformation, developing a more holistic, recovery oriented, biopsychosocial approach to supporting people with mental illnesses, in partnership with primary care, other community NHS providers and the voluntary sector. The aim is to build support systems that reach the whole mental health population with a focus on prevention and sustained recovery delivered by multi-agency collaboration. Each population unit is based on the footprint of Primary Care Networks, bringing together NHS, voluntary sector, peer support and community organisations. These relationships will be central to the new community mental health model. It is an exciting time for two Band 6 nurses to join the South Core Team. Working as a member of a multidisciplinary Locality Team, the post holder will be responsible for providing individual assessment, identified clinical interventions and direct care to service users with mental health issues. The focus of the role will be that of individual assessment, intervention, and evaluation of treatment, delivered within the framework of clinical guidelines, evidence-based best practice and to maximise service user’s recovery and re-enablement.

• Key Responsibilities
• Financial responsibility
• Responsibility for Human Resources
• Responsibility for Administration
• Responsibility for IT and Digital Systems/Services
• Clinical Responsibilities
• Managerial Responsibilities.
• Operational responsibilities
• Health & Safety
• Research & Development

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people. Our Five-Year Strategy We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Joan Ezukwo Job title: Team Manager Email address: joan.ezukwo3@nhs.net Telephone number: 020 3317 6806