Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Registered Mental Health Nurse Band 5-6 Development Post
The closing date is 04 June 2026
Are you an ambitious band 6? If so, please apply for this exciting post. We support flexible working and offer a team that empowers nurses to flourish. The North Kensington Community Mental Health Hub (KCCMHH) delivers high‑quality, evidence‑based nursing interventions to patients in Kensington and Chelsea. In return we offer CNWLs highly regarded training and a development pathway to help you grow as a practitioner. The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and our patients.
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.
Additional benefits and support
- Flexible working: condensed hours, work from home/hybrid and flexible hours for a healthy work‑life balance
- On‑site shadowing with HTT, CMHT, Psych Liaison services to build relationships and broaden horizons
- Enhanced supervision and career mapping to support continuous professional development, including paths to Advanced Clinical Practitioner and Nurse Prescribing
- Training opportunities: CBT, DBT, family interventions, venepuncture, ECG interpretation and more
- Hidden Gem annual award ceremonies and award‑winning staff networks with thousands of members and exciting events
- Excellent staff benefits: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans and cycle‑to‑work scheme
About us
In this development post, you will receive additional supervision and support, plus community‑specific training. You will work in a team that prioritises innovation and high standards of clinical care, as evidenced by continuous quality improvement projects. The team is committed to developing you through coaching, supervision, reflective practice and in‑house development sessions. The KCCMHH is situated in a vibrant area near Portobello Road, offering convenient walking distance for all patients.
Job responsibilities
- Accountable for the care and support of a defined caseload of working‑age adults.
- Screen for health and social care needs, and negotiate care plans with service users and carers.
- Undertake risk assessments and develop robust risk management plans according to Trust policy.
- Safely administer and store medication in the community, ensuring adherence to Pharmacy guidelines and policies.
- Monitor treatment, support concordance, and ensure prompt action to alleviate unwanted medication effects.
- Ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi‑disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies within the DIALOG+ framework.
- Engage with service users and carers assertively and offer care/interventions within the least restrictive setting.
- Facilitate fair and equal access to services through choice, social inclusion, and sensitivity to age, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability.
- Offer evidence‑based psycho‑social interventions and pro‑active risk management to reduce and manage symptoms and high‑risk behaviour, enabling sustained recovery.
- Understand and apply CNWL Child Protection Guidelines and safeguarding procedures, ensuring safety for children and adults.
- Provide ongoing psycho‑education and health promotion regarding illness, disability, and health to service users and families.
- Provide interventions with other disciplines/agencies to care for service users experiencing co‑morbidity with substance misuse.
- Engage service users and families in relapse prevention and crisis planning, coordinating interventions to resolve crises and avoid hospitalisation.
- Deliver flexible and responsive services, dictated by user needs, and contribute to continuity of care, including outside normal working hours.
- Receive referrals from GPs and conduct comprehensive psycho‑social assessments to establish care needs.
- Facilitate sign‑posting, onward referral, or rapid access to relevant professionals, and advise GP on effective management.
- Act as liaison to GP practices for patients with complex mental health problems or co‑morbidities.
- Ensure early detection and fast tracking of clients with severe mental health problems.
- Provide appropriate short‑ and long‑term evidence‑based interventions for complex and severe enduring illnesses (SMI), preventing deterioration and relapse.
- Prioritise workload flexibly to meet caseload responsibilities, participate in meetings, and develop skills through supervision and training.
- Ensure personalisation and individualised choice in assessment and planning, maximising access to direct payments and personal budgets.
- Identify suitable residential and nursing placements in line with Local Authority policy and procedures.
- Support the wider team in reviewing placements and services commissioned by the Local Authority for service users.
- Understand social factors relevant to mental health and respect cultural, religious, and personal values of all clients.
- Support safe step‑down for patients no longer requiring mental health services, enabling GP practices to provide continuing care.
- If admission becomes necessary, provide joint inpatient review to ensure transfer or discharge to the least restrictive environment as soon as clinically possible.
- Maintain professional conduct standards and observe legal requirements of the MHA (1983), Code of Practice, Children Act (1989), Mental Capacity Act (2005), Care Act (2014), and other relevant legislation and guidance.
Qualifications
- Current UK NMC Registration in Mental Health Nursing.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Relevant post‑basic training.
Skills & Knowledge
- Ability to build therapeutic relationships using good communication skills displaying warmth and empathy.
- Experience employing a range of therapeutic skills and psycho‑social interventions.
- Clear commitment to implementing equal opportunities for care delivery and staff in a multicultural community.
- Ability to develop effective working relationships with families, carers, and other agencies, both statutory and non‑statutory.
- Working knowledge of the NMC Code of Conduct.
- Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 as amended by MHA 2007.
Experience
- Experience with users who have severe and enduring mental health problems in inpatient or community settings.
- Ability to assess, design, deliver and evaluate health and social care packages involving service users and carers.
- Proficiency in keeping accurate records and using IT systems.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a submission to the Disclosure and Barring Service for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary: £38,488 to £56,863 per annum incl HCAS (pro rata if part time).
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