# Community Psychiatric Nurse - Crisis NW Team > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-psychiatric-nurse-crisis-nw-team/ab7191f2-d745-4846-ab41-4f66db0df557 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-psychiatric-nurse-crisis-nw-team/ab7191f2-d745-4846-ab41-4f66db0df557.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Hatfield - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (community and district) - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £33,677 - £50,387 per annum pro rata inc. 5% of HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-30T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-23T12:23:06.326Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Hertfordshire/Hemel_Hempstead/Hertfordshire_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/CRISIS_RESOLUTION_HOME_TREATMENT_TEAM_CRHTT/CRISIS_RESOLUTION_HOME_TREATMENT_TEAM_CRHTT-v8121037 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8121037?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.hpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The successful candidate will: - be part of a supportive multi-disciplinary team who work creatively, collaboratively and compassionately to deliver the very best standards of care - have regular supervision, and continuing professional development opportunities - provided with excellent learning and development opportunities for staff, as well as strengthening clinical research. This is a development post and not suitable for an NQN. You will initially be employed at a Band 5 at your current salary whilst you are working through your Band 6 competencies. You will be expected to demonstrate these competently in practice. Please be aware that the expected time to complete competencies and become a Band 6 will be approximately 6 months after starting your new role. Following successful achievement of meeting the competencies, your salary will be reviewed and your pay band confirmed at band 6 pay step 1. In the unlikely event that you didn’t meet the competencies, an action plan would be put in place to support you to address the competency gaps; you would remain as a Band 5 and the opportunity for a Band 6 at this time will not be confirmed. Salary payment until your competencies as band 6 are met will be AFC band 5 scale. ### Main duties of the job - To support the NW CRHTT in establishing and maintaining effective inter-team and inter-agency communication - To support the NW CRHTT and service users by conducting assessments - To provide effective liaison/communication relating to referrals to and discharge from the NW CRHTT across primary care and community services - Maintain effective joint working with other teams such as ACMHS, EPMHS, PATH, MHLT, PLS, Crisis House, CRHTTs, the Pendell crisis house, MHUCC, CGL etc and other community-based teams according to local circumstances. - Ensure effective communications with relatives, visitors, voluntary organisations and the public, thus encouraging participation in care delivery. To respond sensitively to the needs of relatives and carers, often in a highly emotive setting - To liaise with other professionals in relation to client care, actively co-ordinating care planning and review meetings, and case conferences as appropriate. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The band 5-6 development highlights the experience and education available to provide the applicant with the essential skills and knowledge required for a band 6 nurse role within Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. The Pathway provide the applicant with 15 competencies including Personal / Professional Development, Management and Team working, Clinical skills, Safety & Quality, and Facilitation of learning. Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details on this role. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - RMN or Dip / BSc / Msc in Mental Health Nursing ### Previous Experience **Essential** - Experience in acute and community areas. - Experience in care planning, change management and use of Microsoft Office - Evidence of continuing professional development - Knowledge of physical health contributions to Mental Health issues, difficulties and assessment **Desirable** - Experience in working with acute mental health problems in community setting ### Skills, Knowledge and Ability **Essential** - An understanding of the needs of people with acute mental health problems - Ability to communicate effectively within a multi- professional team. - Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or reassuring skills are required - A good team player - Ability to deal with distressing circumstances and challenging behaviour - Ability to work well in a team setting - Ability to cope with an unpredictable work pattern and frequent interruptions - Understanding of legal framework and social factors involved in community care - Multi-professional working/case management - Ability to use computer skills for entering clinical notes on the electronic patient records, driving, utilise the keyboard to manipulate spreadsheets, etc., clinical skills - Ability to concentrate, frequency and consequences of interruptions. Include if the patient group has limited understanding or challenging behaviour. - - Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010, which prevents you from driving) ## Documents - [refer a friend (pdf, 160.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2083) - [staff benefits (pdf, 888.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2165) - [guidance on ai usage in job applications (pdf, 55.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2305) - [job description & person specification (docx, 292.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10417216) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.