An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse within Barking and Dagenham Early Intervention in Psychosis Team (HEIP). We are a dynamic and welcoming multidisciplinary team who work with individuals from 14-65 experiencing a first episode psychosis. The team comprises of nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, an occupational therapist and support workers.

The successful candidate should be an occupational therapist, social worker or Registered Mental Health Nurse with unrestricted live NMC registration. You should have good written and verbal communication skills, be able to work as part of a team and demonstrate an understanding of mental health issues with experience of dealing with emotional distress.

You will be able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate all aspects of care including working/liaising with multi-disciplinary teams and other agencies in the provision of care and have the ability to engage service users and relatives with empathy and compassion.

The successful candidate will have a caseload of service users they are responsible for under CPA.

There are regular opportunities for further training and development.

Case management including assessment, providing interventions and support

Managing allocated caseload

Medication management and administration (medication include oral and intramuscular)

Participating in the clinics

Liaising with other professionals and attending ward rounds and professionals meetings.

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High Cost Area Supplement - London

This post attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,714 and a maximum payment of £5,941 per annum pro rata).

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.

Our Values 2025 - 2030

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.

they are:
We are kind.

We are respectful.

We work together with our communities.

These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.