Registered Mental Health Nurse Band 5-6 Development Post

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There's a place for you at CNWL. We're passionate about delivering first class patient centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

Registered Mental Health Nurse Band 5-6 Development Post NHS AfC: Band 6 Main area RMN Band 5 to 6 Development Post Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday (9am to 5pm Job ref 333-J-KC-0921-B

Site HATHAWAY HOUSE Town LONDON Salary £37,259 - £55,046 per annum incl HCAS (pro rata if part time) Salary period Yearly Closing 06/03/:59

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page.

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.

Job overview Are you an ambitious band 6? If so, please apply for this exciting post. We support flexible working.

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 practitioner? Then the North Kensington Community Mental Health Hub (KCCMHH) might just have what you're looking for.

KCCMHH are looking to deliver high quality, evidence-based nursing interventions to our patients in the highly diverse areas of Kensington and Chelsea. In return we will offer you CNWL's highly regarded training and development pathway to develop you into a more highly skilled practitioner.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Interview date - 2 or 3 February 2026

Main duties of the job As a Community Nurse, you will be the linked worker for a caseload of patients offering assessments and interventions to promote recovery.

• Flexible Working - opportunities around condensed hours, working from home/hybrid working and flexible hours to provide a healthy work life balance
• On site shadowing opportunities for you with our HTT, CMHT, Psych Liaison services to allow you to build relations and broaden your horizons
• Enhanced supervision and career mapping to ensure continuous professional development, supporting you to explore opportunities such as Advanced Clinical Practitioner role and Nurse Prescribing
• Training opportunities including CBT, DBT, Family Interventions, venepuncture, ECG interpretation and many more!
• Hidden Gem, annual award ceremonies and award winning Staff Networks that have thousands of members and exciting events.
• Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme.

Working for our organisation

• In this development post, you will receive additional supervision and support as well as community specific training.
• You will be working in a team that prides itself on promoting innovation and working to the highest standards of clinical care as evidenced by the services' ongoing Quality Improvement Projects.
• Commitment from the team to develop you as a practitioner by offering coaching, supervision, reflective practice and in house development sessions.
• The KCCMHH is located in exciting and vibrant areas of London; with the North Hub situated near the culturally diverse Portobello Road.
• All patients that come under the Hub are within walking distance so you'll also achieve your daily step goals! And as a Trust we love to promote wellbeing.
• Want to know more about us and what we do? Please click the link below.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Be accountable for the care and support of a defined caseload of adults of working age.
2. Screen for health and social care needs and negotiate care plans with service users and their carers.
3. Undertake risk assessments and develop robust risk management plans, according to Trust policy.
4. Safely administer and store medication as needed in the community and ensure that relevant Pharmacy guidelines and policies are adhered to.
5. Monitor treatment, support concordance and ensure prompt action is taken to alleviate unwanted effects of prescribed medication.
6. Ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies, within the DIALOG+ framework.
7. Engage with service users and carers assertively and offer care/interventions within the least restrictive setting, in normal community environments.
8. Help clients gain fair and equal access to services, through choice and social inclusion and being sensitive to age, culture, ethnicity and gender, sexuality and disability.
9. Offer a range of evidence based psycho social interventions and proactive risk management approaches.
10. Ensure CNWL Child Protection Guidelines and Safeguarding Children and Adult procedures are fully understood and applied.
11. Provide access to, and ongoing psycho education and health promotion regarding illness, disability and health to service users and families.
12. Provide interventions and work with other disciplines/agencies/teams in the care of service users experiencing co morbid problems with substance use/misuse.
13. Engage the service user and their family in relapse prevention and crisis planning, coordinate interventions that maximise the service users' ability to resolve crises, remain at home and avoid the need for hospitalisation.
14. Deliver a flexible and responsive service through working practices that are dictated by service user/carer need and contribute to the provision of service continuity, including outside normal working hours when necessary.
15. Receive referrals from GPs and undertake comprehensive psycho social mental health assessments to establish care needs.
16. Identify where best those needs can be met and facilitate signposting, onward referral or rapid access to relevant professionals and services.
17. Act as a contact point and provide a link/liaison role to GP practices with regard to patients with more complex mental health problems and/or co morbidity.
18. Ensure early detection and fast tracking of clients with severe mental health problems.
19. Prioritise time and workload to meet community caseload responsibilities, participate in meetings, and develop personal skills, knowledge and experience through supervision and training.
20. Ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies.
21. Ensure that the principles of personalisation and individualised choice are inherent in the assessment and care planning process, including maximising service user's access to direct payments and personal budgets.
22. Identify appropriate resources, including residential and nursing placements, and follow the Local Authority policy and procedures to access such services.
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