Maternity leave cover
We are recruiting qualified Social Workers, Mental Health Nurses and Occupational Therapists with extensive experience in Mental Health.
Are you an experienced Social Worker, OT or Mental Health Nurse? Join our team. People using our service are experiencing psychosis for the first time. We are committed to delivering personalised and meaningful care that makes a positive difference and helps people to achieve outcomes to make their lives better.
We support flexible working for our staff to maintain a healthy work‑life balance.
Our roles are focused on delivering care along the First Episode in Psychosis pathway for people and their families. You will have access to comprehensive training.
The PATH service will support you to become an expert clinician in the assessment and treatment of psychosis and we can offer development opportunities into more senior roles.
In this role, you will also have a great opportunity to develop your management, leadership, and delegation skills by working as part of an MDT in a hub and spoke operational model. You will have the opportunity to access HPFT leadership training and this can prepare you for other more senior leadership roles in the future, if this is your chosen career pathway.
You can find out more about our team here: https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/about-us/our-teams/path-and-arms/
Please contact Eleanor Atkins at eleanor.atkins1@nhs.net for an informal chat or to arrange a visit.
As a Band 6 Clinician in the team, you will:
* have an excellent training and development pathway
* train as a family intervention therapist
* be an active member of a skilled multi‑disciplinary team
* work together with your colleagues to provide our PATH service to people in Borehamwood.
* cover this designated locality – not the whole county
* travel less and work out in the community, both in people’s homes and our local hub buildings
The hub and spoke model aligns closely with the Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) service by protecting the core care coordination function while strengthening delivery of NICE‑concordant interventions. The hub provides consistent clinical leadership, governance, and oversight of risk, CPA, and pathway standards, ensuring timely allocation and continuity of care. Spokes enable specialist, role‑focused interventions such as physical health, carer support, psychology, employment, and social care to be delivered more effectively. This structure reduces caseload pressure on care coordinators, improves access to evidence‑based treatments, supports recovery‑focused care, and helps EIP services meet national quality, access, and accreditation standards sustainably.
To succeed in this job, you will be committed to the delivery of recovery based and collaborative approaches to care planning, working flexibly and creatively with people in order to achieve their goals.
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
Our Trust Values Are
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Eleanor Atkins Job title: Service Manager for PATH West Email address: eleanor.atkins1@nhs.net
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