Job Description

The Health Based Place of Safety is a nurse-led service in North London NHS Foundation Trust with the sole remit of providing assessments and care for service users detained by the police under sections 135 and 136 of the Mental Health Act.



Service users presenting to HBPoS are often in an acute phase of crisis and require high quality assessment and intensive care for a period of 24 hours.

The post holder will be responsible for:

Safe and effective triage process of all service user users referred to the service.



Conducting high quality mental health assessments of all service users.



Developing effective risk assessment and risk management plans for service users, during the period of admission and on discharge



Ensuring high quality physical health assessment and on-going physical health care during admission.



Providing high quality handovers to SPR and AMHP's and timely referrals for Mental health act assessments and sourcing of beds.



Effective shift co-ordination and the management of 3 staff



Providing clinical supervision up to 2 staff



Escalating breaches and incidents effectively



Mentoring Nursing students



Taking a clinical lead role within the team



Supporting the manager in roster management, in phase reviews, Team audits and team QI project



The HBPoS offers excellent opportunities for nurses to develop their specialist skills in acute crisis care and to develop effective working relationships with colleagues in the Police, ambulance services and local emergency departments.



North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.



With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all



We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.



We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.



In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.



To be responsible for providing expert care in an area of designated expertise, in accordance with NMC or HPC codes of professional conduct



To provide expert, autonomous and highly specialist clinical practice within a multidisciplinary Team to include: -



Initial assessment and formulation using a range of mental health or other specialist tools



When required to do so making appropriate judgements about own day to day caseload.



To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care in negotiation with service users, carers and other services, considering the needs of a diverse community.



Apply a range of therapeutic modalities, using evidence based interventions in accordance with the requirements of service line care pathways.



Maintaining contemporaneous records to the standard required by the trust and the relevant professional body (where appropriate to the post holder)



This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.