Job overview

As a Band 5 Mental Health Nurse in the Place of Safety, you will play a vital role in providing compassionate, person-centred care to individuals detained under the Mental Health Act, often at their most vulnerable. You will work within a specialist, secure environment where rapid assessment, risk management, and therapeutic engagement are key to supporting safe and effective care pathways.

What It Takes:

• Strong clinical judgement and the ability to work calmly in high-pressure situations
• Excellent communication skills, to build rapport quickly with distressed individuals
• A thorough understanding of mental health legislation and safeguarding
• The ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team, often including police, AMHPs, and crisis services
• A resilient and empathetic mindset, committed to patient dignity and recovery

Why Work With Us at the Place of Safety:

You’ll join a supportive and dynamic team dedicated to making a real difference during a critical point in someone’s mental health journey. We invest in our staff through continuous professional development, reflective practice, and a strong focus on staff wellbeing. You’ll gain unique experience in crisis mental health care and be part of a service that values your voice, skill, and commitment.

Main duties of the job

1. To contribute to the ongoing S136 assessment process at the
   Health-Based Place of Safety (HBPOS) collaborative risk
   assessment and care planning in line with policy standards. This
   will be as an individual and as part of the multi-professional team.
   2. Provide a comprehensive initial assessment of a detained person
   once admitted into the HBPoS and to communicate to the
   relevant medical colleague and AMHP.
   3. To provide safe and high-quality care to all service users,
   ensuring that both their immediate mental health and physical
   health care needs are met in a timely manner.
   4. Participate fully in quality assurance initiatives, with particular
   emphasis on a ‘patient first’ approach.
   5. Take on a range of management duties at the request of and in
   the absence of Senior staff
2. 6. Initiate and participate in audit/research projects associated with the work of the service.

Working for our organisation

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:  

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. 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.