Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Inpatient Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-A&UC-9278-C
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kingfisher Court, Radlett
- Town
- Radlett, Hertfordshire
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum (5% fringe HCAS included)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Registered Staff Nurse - Inpatients
Band 5
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
Are you a registered Mental Health Nurse?
Do you have NHS experience?
Join an outstanding Mental Health Trust!
We have band 5 vacancies in Inpatients within the Acute & Urgent Care Division!
The successful candidates will:
- hold current NMC registration
- hold a mental health nursing or learning disabilities nursing qualification
- have NHS experience
if you meet these criteria, we'd love to hear from you!
Our wards are mainly based at Kingfisher Court in Radlett, we have a ward in St Albans (Albany Lodge) and a ward in Stevenage (Aston).
The wards provide mental health services to inpatient service users. Each ward has a multi-disciplinary team including psychologists, occupational therapy, recreational workers as well as the nursing and medical team.
Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.
Watch Aysha’s video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IibBYrQkR_E
Come and join our friendly team!
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
- be a key member of the Inpatient Team
- be responsible / primary nurse for a designated group of patients
- be responsible for the assessment of their needs and for the planning
- implement and evaluate the care provided to meet service user needs
- provide clinical supervision to junior staff members
- have excellent communication and relationship management skills
- treat patients with fairness and respect, maintaining confidentiality appropriately
- assist the inpatients manager, the team and charge nurses in maintaining standards of care
- be fully involved in ward rounds, handovers and other meetings where patient care is discussed and reviewed as required
- participate in the assessment, admission, transfer and discharge of patients according to local guidelines and standards.
In return, we can offer you:
- 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (not applicable in Stevenage)
- 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
- One of the UK's best pension schemes
- Flexible working
- Special leave for family and personal reasons
- NHS Car Lease Scheme (for substantive staff)
- Employee Assistance Programme
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- In addition to managing the clinical aspects of being a Band 5 Staff Nurse, you will take an active part in the assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for service users in collaboration with inpatient multi-disciplinary services.
- You will be liaising with colleagues and carers, ensuring they are fully aware of all aspects of a service users’ care and treatment.
- You will have effective communication skills and be able to contribute towards patient recovery and wellbeing.
- You will be able to identify individuals' care needs.
- You will be planning, implementing and evaluating care plans and risk assessments in collaboration with other teams and professionals.
- You will be maintaining lines of communication with all departments and staff involved in a service user’s care. Reporting on progress and effectiveness to the appropriate MDT.
For a more detailed description, please see attached JD and PS.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN\Dip (Mental Health)
- Live registration with NMC
- Mentorship & Preceptorship after one year
Desirable criteria
- Appropriate post registration qualification
- Basic Food Hygiene Certificate
Skills\knowledge
Essential criteria
- Detailed knowledge of legislation and practise guidelines concerning Adult Acute Mental Health
- Ability to develop professional relationships with staff, service users and all other stakeholders
- Ability to lead and motivate others
- Provision of effective clinical supervision
- Excellent communications skills – written, verbal and able to complete computer data entry and recording
- Good team worker, able to demonstrate organisational skills
- Awareness of budgetary needs of the service
Desirable criteria
- Ability to participate in training of others – students and other team members
- Working with people detained under the Mental Health Act (1983)
Aptitude
Essential criteria
- Ability to identify priorities of service and the need to deliver a high standard of care
- Ability to demonstrate flexibility in approach to solutions of service needs
Desirable criteria
- Ability to work with resources available
- Demonstrate ability to manage ward on a shift by shift basis
Professional
Essential criteria
- Maintains a high standard of care delivery
- Detailed awareness of current issues in Acute Mental Health
- Ability to support and educate others in their professional development
- Ability to act as a mentor to students, nurses and healthcare assistants
Other
Essential criteria
- Participate in preceptorship process
- Maintains ‘Passport to Practice’
- Ability to participate in staff supervision, where appropriate to act as clinical supervisor
Desirable criteria
- Ability to support others with their ‘Passport to Practice’
- Appropriate training taken up
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Aysha Alam
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07766902392
- Additional information
Racheedah Kurrimbaccus, Clinical Matron [email protected] 07342063309
John Matengenzara, Clinical Matron [email protected] 07971639434
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