Job requirements
Essential
20 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Previous experience as a Band 6 clinician in an acute or community setting.
- Skills and knowledge
Effective communication skills both verbally and through written reports.
- Skills and knowledge
Ability to assess complex risk and produce care plans to manage this
- Skills and knowledge
Effective leadership skills
- Skills and knowledge
Ability to take responsibility for managing a caseload
- Skills and knowledge
Ability to manage complex decision making situations.
- Skills and knowledge
Ability to organize and prioritise own workload.
- Skills and knowledge
Ability to supervise junior staff and students
- Skills and knowledge
Teaching and assessing skills
- Skills and knowledge
Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
- Skills and knowledge
Ability to work effectively in stressful and emotionally charged situation
- Skills and knowledge
Able to manage personal stress.
- Skills and knowledge
Previous experience of audit and research.
- Education and Qualifications
RMN/Diploma/Degree
- Education and Qualifications
Evidence of continued professional development
- Education and Qualifications
RMN / OT / Social Work – Professional Registration
- Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics
Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
- Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics
Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
- Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics
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
- Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics
Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals
Desirable
4 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills and knowledge
Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role
- Skills and knowledge
Supervision, Line management and appraisal training
- Skills and knowledge
HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing absence
- Education and Qualifications
Mentorship qualification
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 the first team in CNWL that has been accredited by the royal collage of psychiatry. Then HTT team at Northwick Park Hospital 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 this is the team for you. We pride ourselves on the fact that no one ever leaves, the benefit of working in this team is promotion.
Location - Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow
*The position would require for you to be a driver *
Based on the outskirt rural areas of London, Harrow is surrounded by beautiful parks and greenery where our staff can take advantage of the more peaceful areas. With buses taking you right outside our office and parking available in the surrounding areas, travelling to work has never been easier!
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.
In addition to this we want to offer you;
- Coaching and development sessions including; motivational training, Physical health training, CBT, ECG and venepuncture training all demonstrating a commitment to career mapping to ensure continuous professional development.
- 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 wellbeing of our patients. This includes Psychiatric liaison etc.
- Hidden Gem, annual award ceremonies and award-winning Staff Networks that have thousands of members and exciting events.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details.
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.
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This advert is for MH Nurse HTT Practitioner with Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust in Ashford, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Nurse (adult and children) role. The advertised salary is £45,953 - £54,254 per annum incl. HCAS (pro rata if P/T). The contract type is Permanent: 7 days a week.. The application deadline is 12 Nov 2026.
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