Community Mental Health Nurse- Band 5 to Band 6 Development Post

Are you an ambitious band 5 Nurse looking to become a band 6? If so, please apply for thisexciting development post.

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 practitioner? Then theHarrowHealthy Ageing Community Mental Health serviceat Bentley House might just have what you’re looking for.

Our service is looking for staff to deliver high quality, evidence-based nursing interventions to our patients in the highly diverse areas of Harrow. In returnwe will offer you CNWLs highly regarded training and development pathwayto develop you into a more highly skilled practitioner.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

As aCommunity Nurseyou will be the linked worker for a caseload of patients offering assessments and interventions to promote recovery.

In return we can offer you;

• Flexible Working-opportunities to provide ahealthy work-life balance
• On-site shadowing opportunities for you with our HTT, CMHT and Memory Clinic services to allow you to build relations and broaden your horizons.
• Enhanced supervision and career mappingto ensure continuous professional development. To support this we can offer specifictraining opportunitiesas identified for your personal development.
• Hidden Gem, annual award ceremonies and award-winning Staff Networks that have thousands of members and exciting events.
• Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme.

Why work with our team;

• In thisdevelopment post, you will be providedadditional supervisionand support as well ascommunity specific training.
• An opportunity to work with aclose-knit team which look out for one-anotherand promote wellbeing in the workplace throughregular social eventsand team catch-ups.
• We offer opportunities tostop, breathe and reflectthrough our highly appreciatedReflective Practice sessionsand teamJournal Clubs
• You will be working in a team thatprides itself on promoting innovationand working to the highest standards of clinical care as evidenced by the services ongoingQuality Improvement Projects;our most recent project involved reducing staff caseloads which was a huge success.
• Our retention rates are fantastic and we have a lot to be proud of as a service. When people leave us, they do so for the right reasons. The top 3 being promotion, further education and retirement.
• Commitment from the team to develop you as a practitioner by offeringcoaching,supervision development,reflective practiceandin-house developmentsessions
• Our service is based on the outskirt suburb areas of London. Harrow is surrounded by beautiful parks and greenery where our staff can take advantage of the more peaceful areas. With train links and buses taking you right outside our office and parking available in the surrounding areas,travelling to work has never been easier!

Please see attached JD and PS for more details.

The office base has good transport links via the Bakerloo line and has a comprehensive local bus network. Central London is just 15 minutes away via the fast Train Service to Euston that stops at Harrow and Wealdstone. Harrow has a good shopping centre that is accessed by a short bus journey from the office base and it is next to Harrow on the Hill train station.