Job overview
Do you want to be part of a team improving the way adult mental health care is delivered in the community? Are you looking for a varied role with the opportunity to work autonomously?
The Mental Health Integrated Network Team (MINT) is a community-based service supporting people with their mental and physical health, as well as their social care needs. In this role, you will enhance your skills through autonomous clinical decision-making, assessment and treatment of mental and physical health needs, as well as reviewing and managing risk and crisis situations while working closely with multidisciplinary teams and services. Clinicians are also encouraged and supported to be involved in ongoing service development projects.
We work closely with local GP practices, primary care networks, social services, the voluntary sector, and other organisations to provide collaborative interventions that support joined-up, personalised treatment and care.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for either an RMN with some prior community experience and a keen interest in providing outstanding support within community mental health settings.
Interested? Please read on for further details.
Main duties of the job
The Integrated Mental Health Team mental health nurse will have a number of key roles and will undertake the following duties:
Clinical
- Provide holistic and specialist bio-psycho-social assessment for anyone experiencing mental health difficulties and offer specialist nursing assessment where required
- Provide advice to primary care to help them provide better support to patients and to (where preferable) meet their mental health needs within a primary care setting.
- Carry out robust risk assessments, working collaboratively with the patient and their carer to provide a plan that will support them remaining safe.
- Provide access to a broad range of specialist psychosocial interventions for individual patients where needed.
- Provide expert advice regarding the pharmacological treatment options available to mental health patients to patients and non-mental health professionals, seeking clinical guidance from the designated Consultant Psychiatrist/GP in relation to any specific prescribing advice.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of counselling skills/cognitive behavioural skills, psychosocial interventions
- Knowledge of recovery approaches as used with those with mental health conditions
- Ability to interpret research and apply to practice
- Specialist knowledge of mental health conditions as well as their relationship to physical disorders
- Assessment and treatment of Deliberate Self Harm
- Risk assessment/management and crisis intervention skills
- Use of psychosocial assessment methods
- Higher level communication skills, both written and oral
- Ability to engage challenging and/or acutely distressed patients in potentially hostile and/or antagonistic situations and use de-escalation techniques effectively
- Sufficient clinical knowledge to be able to make autonomous decisions, based on an analysis of complex presenting problems and judgement about available options, with senior clinical support/supervision
- Team/self management and organisation skills that enable a number of complex activities and clinical work to be undertaken, revising and adjusting these according to the needs of individual patients and the service
- Computer literate
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of post qualifying work in psychiatry.
- Experience of supervising junior staff within own and/or other disciplines
Desirable
- Evidence of experience in a Band 6 position or equivalent
- Other relevant post registration experience
- Audit and research experience
- Experience of teaching/training in a formal or informal setting
- Experience of working in a primary care setting/ social care/ voluntary sector
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to frequently work under pressure and maintain intense concentration, particularly in unpredictable situations where there will be exposure to highly distressed and/or disturbed patients, often exhibiting challenging behaviours and the risk of physical violence
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Commitment to equal opportunities
- Self-motivated, able to work autonomously and independently with confidence when required
- Willing to use peer and group supervision creatively
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Professional qualification in mental health - Mental Health Nursing (RMN) with current NMC registration
Desirable
- Educated to degree or Diploma level with other courses relevant to primary care mental health services e.g. CBT, Brief Solution Focussed Therapy etc.
- RGN/physical health qualification
- Evidence of recent and on-going relevant further professional development
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This advert is for Mental Health Practitioner with West London NHS Trust in Southall, London, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £45,953 - £54,254 per annum inclusive of 15% HCAS. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 01 Jul 2026.
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