Kensington and Chelsea Home Treatment Team Community Psychiatric Nurse

Job Overview

Are you looking to work in a team that allows you to feel empowered and proud to be a Nurse? To work in an environment that will allow you to  develop and flourish as a community practitioner?  We are accredited by the royal collage of psychiatry. Then HTT team in Kensington and Chelsea  might just have what you’re looking for.

We as a team work closely together and if you would like to be part of a team that looks out for each other.

Location - South Kensington (the team is split into 2 hubs, our other hub being based in North Kensington, St Charles Hospital, so staff are occasionally based on skill mix and service asked to work in the other half)

Located near the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Working in South Kensington offers a unique combination of a high-urban lifestyle and immediate access to some of London's premier, historic green spaces. Proximity to areas such as Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, and Holland Park offers significant benefits for mental health, physical well-being, and work-life balance.

Main duties of the job

Nursing, turning lives around and improving patient's wellbeing, the reasons you looked to become a Nurse.

We will empower you to work innovatively, showing a commitment to providing compassionate care and a strong desire to improve patient care. 

We want to offer you;

• On-site shadowing for you with our services during the first two weeks, so that you can get a feel of all the areas and what they do to participate in the well-being of our patients. This includes Psychiatric liaison, etc.
  
  

To be an active member of the integrated HTT multidisciplinary team and provide individually tailored care packages for adults of working age, and their families/carers, who have severe and enduring mental illness.

To work in a therapeutic, client-centred way and use a range of evidence-based interventions to help promote recovery through individual or joint working with other professionals.

Working for our organisation

• We are equipped with latest technology including electronic prescribing to reduce time spent on administration and drug rounds and allow more time for care.
• Commitment from the team to develop you as a practitioner by offering coaching and in-house development sessions
• An opportunity to work with a fun, energetic and passionate team who are committed to looking after each other as well as their patients- evidenced by their team outings, away days and local events.
  
  

Why choose HTT at Nightingale Place/Sr Charles Hospital as a place to work?

• Efficient recruitment process
• Flexible shift working hours to provide a healthy work-life balance; Monday to Sunday, no nights and long days (shift work)
• Team Leaders on the team are very accommodating in trying to promote staff to set goals and achieve them.
• Generous NHS Pension scheme
• Investing in the health and well-being of our staff, family and friends.
  
  

Our total benefit package is amongst the best in London, and includes: 

Relocation package, childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans, cycle-to-work scheme, counselling services and much more!

CNWL is dedicated to developing its own staff, and you will be encouraged to develop  into the Nurse you wish to be.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Communication:

• To be fully conversant with statutory and non-statutory services in the borough, and promote effective liaison, working relationships and operational links as appropriate.
• To represent the HTT at Borough, Divisional, clinical and other meetings as required.

To ensure safe and effective delivery of care to service users utilising the knowledge and skills of staff.

Training:

• To be available to receive clinical and managerial supervision.
• To participate in academic meetings and teaching sessions.
• To facilitate the learning environment for pre and post registration students.
  
  

Policy and/or Service Development:

• To participate in the formulation of policy and the development of the HTT, the rapid response functions of the service and the interface with the Single Point of Access.
• To ensure that we continue to meet all the requirements for accreditation by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
  
  

Management of Resources:

• To take assist in ensuring adequate staffing resources are available to provide the service.
• Assist in the recruitment and selection of staff.
• To assist in ensuring compliance with legal requirements concerning the prescribing, storage, transporting and administration of medicines.
  
  

Person specification

Education And Qualifications

Essential criteria

• RMN/Diploma/Degree
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Valid UK registration with their respective professional body.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Mentorship
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Previous experience as a Band 6 clinician in an acute or community setting.
  
  

Skills and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Effective communication skills both verbally and through written reports.
• Ability to assess complex risk and produce care plans to manage this
• Effective leadership skills
• Ability to take responsibility for managing a caseload
• Ability to manage complex decision making situations.
• Ability to organize and prioritise own workload.
• Ability to supervise junior staff and students
• Teaching and assessing skills
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
• Ability to work effectively in stressful and emotionally charged situation
• Able to manage personal stress.
• Previous experience of audit and research.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role

Supervision, Line management and appraisal training

HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing absence

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

• IT skills i.e. Microsoft word, Email, Internet, Motivated and able to motivate others, Assertive and enthusiastic.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Car driver, full driving license., Access to own transport.
  
  

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics

Essential criteria

• Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
• Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
• Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
• Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals