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Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurse
The closing date is 16 July 2026
An exciting opportunity has opened up for you to join our accredited ward at Northwick Park Hospital on Eastlake ward. At CNWL we are committed to working at the highest standards of clinical excellence and at Northwick Park our wards are AIMS accredited (Accreditation for Inpatient Mental Health Services) and this has been recognised and awarded to us by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Through our training and development opportunities many of our Band 5 Nurses have been promoted to Band 6 roles and we are also supporting nurses to complete further training to develop their careers. We are committed to promoting staff development and retention and will offer you these same opportunities.
Please note that this role requires successful candidates to be able to engage in Therapeutic Management of Violence and Aggression (TMVA) training, including the use of force techniques. This is because of the high‑acuity nature of the ward environment and the need to ensure the safety of both patients and staff. The role is conditional upon candidates being able to engage in TMVA training during the course of their employment whilst undertaking this role.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an individual who has effective communication skills not only when engaging with service users, but also with their carers and any other professional(s).
The successful candidate will have:
- Excellent communication skills and a caring, compassionate approach to patient care.
- Motivation to drive improvement in the care of inpatients within a mental health setting.
- Be committed to continuous professional development and to working as part of a team.
- Ability to provide strong clinical leadership and role‑model best practice on both the ward as well as the wider unit.
About us
Working at Northwick Park will provide you with the following:
- Working around our Safety Pledge to reduce restrictive interventions
- Innovative Trauma Informed staff training programme, including practice of Team Formulation
- Implementing Sensory modulation into the care pathway
- Coaching and development sessions, including wound care treatment, forms of dementia treatment, mental state examination skill sessions, administering ACE assessments
- On‑site shadowing opportunities for you with our HTT, CMHT, Psych Liaison services
- Commitment to career mapping to ensure continuous professional development including opportunities such as CBT, DBT, ECG and venepuncture training
- Flexible shift working hours to provide a healthy work‑life balance
- Training package (including sponsorship for post‑graduate studies up to master’s)
- 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.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Please contact the team for any additional information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- UK NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse – RMN
- Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
- Evidence of relevant continuous professional development
Experience
- Experience of working in the community/mental health services either as a band 5 nurse, a student nurse or health care assistant.
- Able to communicate with the multi‑disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively, speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
- Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to CNWL policies.
- Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary.
- Able to maintain electronic patient records. Use Microsoft Word for letter and report writing.
- Medicines management and administration.
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
- Demonstrate ability to assess, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care for individuals experiencing acute mental distress.
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills in assessing and managing risk. Demonstrate ability to co‑ordinate a team and its day‑to‑day work.
- Demonstrate ability to use a range of therapeutic interventions with individuals in acute mental health crisis.
- Demonstrate understanding of CPA and its application. Demonstrate good communication skills, including listening, reflecting, empathy, facilitation, persuasion, motivation, negotiation, education and reassurance, even in challenging and sensitive situations.
- Demonstrate ability to determine and reduce risk to self, clients and others.
- Demonstrate understanding of the role of HTT and of the social model of care.
- Demonstrate a commitment and the ability to work as part of a team.
- Demonstrate knowledge of issues and developments within mental health and the NHS.
- Demonstrate ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach which considers the needs of the whole person.
- Demonstrate ability to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills.
- Demonstrate ability to work professionally with challenging and difficult behaviours.
- Demonstrate knowledge of audit and research.
- Demonstrate the ability to promote the HTT to clients and other professional and non‑professional groups.
- Demonstrate ability to work as an autonomous clinician.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Address & Compensation
Northwick Park Hospital – Mental Health Centre
£36,943 to £44,900 a year inclusive of HCAS (pro rata if part‑time)
Contract & Working Pattern
Permanent – Full‑time
Reference Number
333‑J‑HA‑0704‑C
Job Locations
Northwick Park Hospital – Mental Health Centre
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