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Community Mental Nurse
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent: Community Mental Health Nurses - 2 Band 6 posts
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm to be changed to 8am - 8p.m.)
Job ref
455-NLFT-0300
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
North London NHS Foundation Trust, Camden South Core Team
Town
London
Salary
£46,419 - £55,046 Per annum incl of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/08/2025 23:59

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Community Mental Health Nurse

Band 6

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we: 

  • Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
  • Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
  • Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
  • Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
  • Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
  • Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer.  We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is:  https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ 

Job overview

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.

 

 

Main duties of the job

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

 

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.  

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

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

  1. 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder is expected to establish and maintain positive interpersonal relationships with other staff members characterised by trust, mutual respect, and open, honest communication.

Internal Relationships 
• Colleagues and Co-workers
• Senior Managers
External Relationships
• Partners such as VCO’s
• Other Mental Health providers in the locality 
• Other NHS Organisations
• Local GP’s
• Adult Social Care 
• London Borough of Camden 
Lead 
Practitioner/PHN
Community MH 
Nurse
MH Nurse/Nurse 
Associate/AP
Better Mental Health. Better Lives. Better Communities.

 

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree/Diploma in mental health studies.
  • Registered Professional Qualification (Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist).
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portfolio.
  • Valid NMC registration
  • Experience in clinical setting. Acute/community/forensic
  • Years working experience
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in working in mental Health settings
  • Experience of leading a clinical team
  • Experience of supervising and managing staff
  • Current Level 1 Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults certificates or willingness to undertake Level 2 Safeguarding Children or Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults certificate.

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of MDT working.
  • Knowledge & understanding of safeguarding issues, as well ethical & legal considerations in relations to competency, consent and the legal frameworks of the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007) and Children Act (2004).
  • Demonstrate a clear understanding of current Mental Health legislation and its application / use in practice or legislation relevant to substance misuse services.
  • Understanding by the post holder of their responsibilities under the Clinical & Information Governance, Risk Assessment and Child Protection Legislation
  • Knowledge of raising any safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Children services concerns
  • To demonstrate an understanding of the management of the physical health needs of people with mental health or substance addictions problems
  • Demonstrable understanding of utilising a variety of assessment tools currently used in practice to determine risk and assess and plan care needs

Skills/Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to analyse and present complex information to professional colleagues.
  • Ability to analyse and present complex information to professional colleagues.
  • Ability to complete thorough mental health assessments with comprehensive documentation and clear management plan.
  • Ability to undertake risk assessments, identify changes in patterns of risk behaviour, and implement appropriate amendments to care plans as necessary.
  • Able to work autonomously and use own initiative
  • Good IT Keyboard Skills
  • Excellent team player
  • Active Listening & Communication skills both written & verbal
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrable experience of adaptability to change

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyAge positiveImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthAccredited Living Wage Employer

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Joan Ezukwo
Job title
Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 3317 6806

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