Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-CYP-3741
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CYMPHS West
- Town
- St Albans
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 per annum, pro rata (5% HCAS Included)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading

CYPMHS West Nurse Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 7
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.
Job overview
· Taking responsibility for making a significant contribution to the nursing input, participating fully in the referral and allocation process, assessments, treatment, risk management, safeguarding vulnerable children and adults, care coordination of service users as well as contributing to case discussions and service-related meetings.
· Offering consultations and supervision to colleagues and students as well as staff in other services.
Main duties of the job
· To develop and provide highly specialist evidence-based interventions for service users, drawing on a wide range of theoretical frameworks and treatment modalities.
· To deliver timely, accessible services through both clinic based and outreach models.
· To provide highly specialist advice and consultation regarding formulations and treatment to colleagues, external agencies working autonomously within professional guidelines.
· Care-coordinate a caseload of service users delivering highly specialist assessments and integrated care.
· Together with other team members to be responsible for developing nursing practice in the service including the supervision of both nursing colleagues and colleagues from other disciplines in the service.
· To actively participate in supervision, appraisal and professional development to enhance clinical skills, e.g. nurse prescribing
· To chair/attend MDTs for all teams providing clinical sign off
· To work collaboratively and provide nursing consultation to other relevant professions within HPFT and external agencies to build capacity in terms of the early identification and physical and psychological management of disorders and/or disability.
· To take a leading role for service innovation and development, including projects with other junior staff to ensure delivery of safe effective nursing
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 4,500 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
Sound working relationships
The post holder will have four main groups within his/her professional domain:
Service Users and their Carers
The clinical staff within the team
The senior staff within the teams
Staff within services with which there is daily liaison
Communication Requirements
Leadership and Staff Management Responsibility
Service Development and Improvement
Analytical and Judgmental Skills
Planning and Organizational Skills
An Understanding of Physical Working Conditions and Environment
Management of Information Resources
* Please see attached detailed Job Description for this post
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential criteria
- RMHN / Social Worker Qualification
- Degree level qualification or equivalent experience
- Willingness to complete further training and qualification identified as appropriate to the role
- Communications skills / Leadership training
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working with CYPMHS
- Leadership skills
- Range of work procedures and practices; base level of theoretical knowledge
- Knowledge and experience to deal with nonroutine issues such as problem solving for an area of work or developing alternative or additional procedure
- Knowledge of specialist functional / medical/legal terms, organisational policies and procedures
- Experience in a mental health environment or NHS
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Essential criteria
- Experience in working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience liaising with external agencies and report writing
- Awareness of mental health problems affecting children and young people
- Experience and understanding of neurodevelopment difficulties, including Autism spectrum disorder Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Awareness of child protection policies and procedures
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Pleasant and efficient telephone manner
- Professional approach when using email
- Friendly and welcoming manner when receiving visitors at reception
- Calm and efficient when resolving issues
- Able to provide and receive routine information requiring tact or persuasive skills, considering barriers to understanding. Eg. anxious patients cultural differences, language or communication difficulties.
- Able to clearly and accurately communicate routine information verbally and in writing, with patients and staff on, for example discharge, admission, transfer.
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Able to use their own judgement to find solutions to visitor/staff requests/needs through the use of analytical and problems solving skills
- Is able to confidently • Escalate issues when necessary. • Prioritise work • Resolve conflicting diary appointments and schedules
- Able to maintain spreadsheets and analyse and disseminate data
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alex Marapara
- Job title
- CYPMHS West Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01727804214
- Additional information
Dominic Regan - Consultant Lead Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Email: [email protected] / Tel: 01727804214
Snehal Shah - Clinical Psychologist
Email: [email protected] / Tel: 01727804214
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