Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN): Sponsorship Available

Job summary

Thank you for your interest in the Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) position within our H&F Assertive Engagement and Rehabilitation Team.

Please read the Job Description and Person Specification carefully to ensure you meet the essential criteria and hold the relevant current professional registration. This post is currently ring-fenced for nursing applicants only.

West London NHS Trust’s Community Rehabilitation Services are undergoing an exciting period of development, with the integration of an assertive outreach function. The successful candidate will work across both rehabilitation and assertive outreach pathways.

We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic mental health nurse with experience in psychosocial rehabilitation and a passion for service development.

Previous experience in a rehabilitation or assertive outreach setting is essential. You will support people with complex mental health needs to achieve recovery, greater independence and improved quality of life.

The role requires excellent communication, clinical decision-making, risk management, multidisciplinary working and the ability to engage individuals who may find it difficult to access or maintain contact with services.

You will be supported by experienced senior and professional managers and a committed multidisciplinary team. We offer opportunities for ongoing training, professional development and involvement in service improvement.

Main duties of the job

• To provide comprehensive, culturally appropriate, evidence-based assessments to establish client’s needs; level of support and type of interventions required to facilitate their rehabilitation

• To manage a small caseload of service users with complex, severe and enduring mental health needs; using evidence based and recovery principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment and support for clients in our Boroughs who are registered with a local GP.
• To act as a named worker for service users and hold a caseload of nursing-specific clients (usually for medication administration and physical health monitoring). Undertake assessment and care co-ordination activities within a multi-disciplinary framework, in order to identify the needs of service users and to arrange and provide appropriate packages of care within the available budget.
• To present cases to the relevant placement panels for in-borough and out-of-borough placements, both for initial funding requests and reviews.
• To work proactively with service providers to draw up resettlement plans and carry out regular reviews for clients to assess their progress towards identified goals.

• To contribute to service development
• To undertake supervisory and appraisal responsibilities for allocated team members
• To act as mentor to students on practice placement and to mentor junior members of staff.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• oCurrent professional qualification in Mental Health Nursing
• oRegistration must be live with the NMC
• oEvidence of post registration training and CPD.

Desirable

• oOther relevant training, e.g. substance misuse
• oFamily Therapy/Work training.
• oTraining in Psychosocial Interventions or Thorn

Experience

Essential

• oExperience of working in multi-disciplinary mental health teams with clients with severe and enduring mental health problems
• oKnowledge of multi/unidisciplinary care planning processes and multi-agency working
• oWork with people experiencing mental health crisis.
• oExcellent verbal and written communication skills, including report writing and presentations / IT skills.
• oAbility to assess, plan, implement and evaluate a comprehensive care package for the identified client group, using a wide range of resources.
• oAble to develop a comprehensive programme of intervention and support for the identified client group and their families
• oAdvanced skills in risk assessment and management.
• oCan demonstrate understanding of psychosis and its impact on service users and carers.
• oDemonstrate knowledge of current legislation and guidance applicable to this client group
• oCan demonstrate understanding of the needs of diverse groups, e.g. residents of inner city; black and minority ethnic groups, and skills in engaging with them.
• oSkills in psychosocial interventions
• oPrior experience of working in mental health rehabilitation or assertive outreach

Desirable

• oBasic counselling and group work skills.
• oSkills in leadership: ability to motivate others, use initiative and manage change.
• oWorking with people who use substances
• oAudit and research; Teaching.
• oSupervision of students and junior staff.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• oMotivated
• oAble to create good relationships with clients, carers, other professionals and other stakeholders
• oWork with service users who are difficult to engage with
• oReliable
• oDisciplined

Closing Date: 11 September 2026